Winning film from Cannes and the latest by Sorrentino. Announcing the exclusive program of Vary at Your Cinema’s autumn film season

We have already informed you of the opening film of the upcoming season of Vary at Your Cinema: the long-anticipated Joker: Folie à Deux, which had its premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. We are now glad to announce the other films for the fall and winter season: Anora, winner of this year’s Palm d’Or in Cannes; director Jacques Audiard’s phenomenal award-winning crime comedy Emilia Pérez; Parthenope, the latest by Oscar-winner Paolo Sorrentino, which was shown at this year’s festival in Karlovy Vary; and last but not least, one more – as-yet secret – pre-Christmas surprise.

All the films from Vary at Your Cinema are shown as pre-premieres at 73 cinemas throughout the Czech Republic, always at the same time (Wednesday, 2 October, 23 October, 20 November, 18 December, and 8 January). And just like last year, the screenings will take place in a festive atmosphere.

ANORA (23 October 2024)

This comic love story of a plain-spoken Brooklyn stripper and the son of a Russian oligarch was a hit at this year’s festival in Cannes, where director Sean Baker, whom ČSFD has rightfully dubbed the “Steven Spielberg of independent cinema” – won over the jury with his infectious energy and directorial skills and thus took home the Palme d’Or. Baker previously thrilled Czech audiences with his charming social drama The Florida Project (2018) and the comedy Tangerine (2015, winner at KVIFF), which was shot on an iPhone 5.

EMILIA PEREZ (20 November 2024)

Rita is an overqualified but underpaid lawyer at a large company who is more interested in getting criminals out of jail than in bringing them to justice. But one day she gets the unexpected chance to help Manitas, the leader of a cartel, break free from his life of crime and realize a shocking plan that he has secretly been planning for years. Director Jacques Audiard’s trans-crime-cartel musical aspires for title of “most surprising film of the year” and will undoubtedly influence the next Oscars.

PARTHENOPE (8 January 2025)

No contemporary world-class filmmakers have come close to finding a perfect cinematic definition of beauty like Paolo Sorrentino has. For the first time in his career, the director of The Great Beauty has created a film with a female protagonist, the bewitchingly beautiful Parthenope, whose life he depicts in chapters spread out over several decades. Parthenope is also the old name for Naples, a city whose beauty can prove just as fateful as the melancholia-shrouded maiden. The film’s showing in Cannes was the seventh time Sorrentino brought his irresistible, stylistically refined filmmaking to the festival.

If our selection of films has caught your attention, don’t hesitate and reserve your place at the screenings in the form of season tickets. There is no better time than right now. “We are glad that audiences like Vary at Your Cinema so much that we have sold more season tickets now, before even announcing the full program, than we did for all of last year’s program,” says Kryštof Mucha, executive director of the Karlovy Vary film festival.

Later in the fall, we will be announcing the second half of films for the spring season. In the meantime, mark these Wednesday dates in your calendars: 12 February 2025, 12 March 2025, 16 April 2025, 14 May 2025, and 11 June 2025.