Documentary Mondays, Fiction Tuesdays at Czech Center in Bucharest
<p>The programs <em>Documentary Mondays</em> and <em>Fiction Tuesdays</em> return at the Czech Center in Bucharest between May 13 and June 4, on Mondays and Tuesdays.</p>

<p>Four films are part of the Documentary Mondays program, where the directors will take part in online Q&amp;A sessions with the public.</p>

<p>Apolena Rychlíková’s&nbsp;<em>Limits of Europe</em>, which follows the Czech journalist Saša Uhlová’s foray into the world of unskilled workers from Central and Eastern Europe who work abroad, is scheduled for May 13. Lucie Králová’s&nbsp;<em>Kapr Code</em>, a documentary-opera on the life and work of Czech composer Jan Kapr, will be screened on May 20.</p>

<p>Czech film director Jan Švankmajer, who turns 90 this year, will be celebrated with a documentary about him and a fiction film he made. As such, the public can watch Jan Danhel and Adam Olha&nbsp;<em>Athanor: The Alchemical Furnace</em>&nbsp;on May 27. The film is described as a playful portrait that captures Švankmajer in various moments and situations, as well as his views on food, fetishes, or the end of humanity and Western civilization.</p>

<p>Documentary Mondays ends on June 3 with Theo Montoya’s&nbsp;<em>Anhell69</em>, which follows a young director as he tells his story in Medellin, a city marked by conflict, violence, and paradoxes. The cast consisted of queer youth from Medellin, but the lead actor dies of an overdose at the age of 21.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, Fiction Tuesdays opens at the I.L. Caragiale National University of Theater and Film on May 14 with František Vláčil’s&nbsp;<em>Markéta Lazarová</em>, the acclaimed epic considered an essential film for all cinema lovers.&nbsp;</p>

<p>On May 21, the Czech Center hosts the screening of Jan Švankmajer’s&nbsp;<em>Alice</em>, a tribute to the imagination of Lewis Carroll and a dive into the author’s childhood in an attempt to revive the experience of the young age.</p>

<p>Tomás Vorel’s&nbsp;<em>The Smoke</em>, the “musical of the totalitarian era,” is scheduled for May 28, while Otakar Vávra’s&nbsp;<em>Krakatit</em>, an adaptation of Karel Čapek’s novel of the same name, ends the Fiction Tuesdays program on June 4.</p>

<p>Access to the screenings is free. The films are screened with English subtitles. The screenings start at 20:00; access starts at 19:45.</p>

<p><em>(Photo: still from The Limits of Europe, courtesy of the Czech Center)</em></p>

<p><em>simona@romania-insider.com</em></p>