Winter Cinema 2023

Pragovka Gallery invites you to winter cinema! Come and enjoy the cold evenings with unconventional films on the theme of FOOD - we screen in Building E in the former dining room, each time with a pre-film from FAMU. The entrance to winter cinema is free.

Nov. 9 The Triangle of Sadness

Model Carl and his influencer partner Yaya are invited on a luxury cruise. They are accompanied by a truly select group of royalty. There's a bachelor looking for the love of his life, an eccentric Russian businessman (Zlatko Buric) and the whole mummery is ruled by a captain (Woody Harrelson) who is perpetually high. When an unexpected event shuffles the cards, the characters of the passengers are shown in their true light. Two-time Palme d'Or winner at Cannes, Ruben Östlund, has made a bitingly satirical comedy about social roles and the intoxicating power of power that leaves no thread dry on any of the passengers.

Pre-film: Sprouting (Ivana Vogrinc Vidali)
In an isolated world of Josefínka's consumer family, only food is sacred and the main activity is gluttony. Driven by cold relationships and anxiety, Josefínka dives into her inner world, the quiet winter peach orchard, where she looks for her own voice and tries to change.

Nov. 23 The Cakemaker

After the death of his lover, German pastry chef Thomas travels to Israel - the homeland of the man he loved. Despite the prejudices associated with his origins, Thomas begins working in a local café owned by the widow of the deceased Oran. What she doesn't realise is that the unspoken sadness she shares with the stranger is tied to one and the same man. (Pilot Film)

Pre-Film: Sugar and Salt
The tragicomic story of a group of men in their fifties and their weekend together at a cottage in the Jeseníky Mountains, this film sensitively explores themes of male insecurity, anxiety and powerlessness.

Nov. 30 The Green Butchers

Svend and Bjarne work as butchers in a small Danish town. Every day they have to listen to insults from their boss until they finally decide to start their own small shop. The start of the business is rather bleak, they are not very successful, but a few coincidences help them to win a big contract. From then on, fortune favours them and business slowly moves for the better. But then Bjarne comes up with a crazy idea involving his brother, who has been in a coma for a long time after a serious car accident. The film's tagline, "you'll never forget the taste of human flesh", hints at what it's all about. (Film Europe)

Pre-film: Meat
The flip side of the meat factory. The processing of living beings into inanimate pieces of flesh for sale for any use. And in the end, that's what man is alive for. A skeleton walks into a butcher shop and picks out affordable cuts. At the expense of the animal's life, the creature finds a deepening of its material essence.

Dec. 7 Ramen Shop

Young chef Masato is an expert in the traditional Japanese dish of ramen, which has been cooked in his family for generations. When life throws him an unexpected test, Masato embarks on a long journey to Singapore. In a city full of flavours and aromas, he discovers more than just delicious recipes and family secrets. It turns out that food has a special power to bring people together and right old wrongs. And that love passes through the ramen.

Pre-movie: Carp Xmass
Once upon a time, beyond the seven mountains and forests, the carp were preparing for Christmas Eve - peaceful and happy, as tradition demands. But Christmas has long since fallen short of those values, becoming the pinnacle of year-round consumption, and there are those who are about to lose their lives in honour of these sacred days. arp Xmass is a reflection on the Christmas polarity and the imposition of absurd traditions.