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23 November 2016updated 14 Sep 2021 2:46pm

Made in Prague: the psychological torment of Czech cinema is easy to admire but hard to recommend

Psychosis, hysteria and abuse characterises these works that look back at the former Soviet and Socialist republics.

By Ryan Gilbey

The Made in Prague film festival celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The programme, which you can investigate here, runs until 5 December but I would draw your attention immediately to Petr Václav’s curious and unsettling film We Are Never Alone.

The screening is presented in conjunction with The New Social, a London-based collective which, it says here, “takes a sweeping look across Russia and former Soviet and Socialist republics to uncover how new social, political and cultural identities are being played out on film in the post-socialist era.”

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