New York October 3 | Havel 90 Festival – Full-Day Film Program Bohemian National Hall, New York 12:40 PM | Film: Olga 2:30 PM | Film: Havel 4:30 PM | Film: Every Young Man 6:30 PM | Film: Havel’s Audience with History Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker and producer Michael Wolkowitz. 8:30 PM | Film: The Firemen’s Ball A lesser-known part of Havel’s relationship with film was his own work as a film critic. As a young writer, especially in the late 1950s, he wrote about cinema an

New York October 2 | Havel 90 Festival – Opening Day Bohemian National Hall, New York 5:30 PM | Workshop: Discovering Václav Havel and Prague A two-hour storytelling and creative workshop for children ages 7–14. Artist and illustrator Sylva Francová introduces children to Havel and Prague through stories, images, and hands-on creative activities. 6:00 PM | Film: Citizen Havel Preceded by the three-minute archival film Václav Havel’s Address on Jan Palach’s Sacrifice. A drinks

Set in Cuba’s Zapata swamps, this intimate black-and-white documentary follows a father who secretly hunts crocodiles to feed his family, capturing the tensions of survival during the pandemic and a period of social unrest. Followed by a discussion on migration, political dissent, and everyday life in Cuba with Nadia Ivanova (Head of the Human Rights and Democracy Centre, People in Need) and Cuban documentary filmmaker and journalist Ismario Rodríguez Pérez, moderated by prof

Resilience is a visually poetic documentary exploring ecological balance and human responsibility in endangered Central European landscapes. Screening followed by a Q&A with protagonist Pavel Pokorný, moderated by Ondřej Kamenický, Director of the One World Human Rights Film Festival.