This year´s event is as usually organized by the European Commission Representation in Finland and the European Parliament Information Office in Finland, in cooperation with Embassies and cultural institutes of EU member states and candidate countries. Czechia is represented by a comedy directed by M. Šmídmajer with Jiří Mádl staring as the main character.

This quirky student comedy tells the story of Petr Kovář, who gets the chance to return to the past for a while and he meets the love of his life, his classmate Eliška, again in June 1989. There is one hook: physically he is seventeen again, but his mind remains that of a modern ”fortysomething”. He returns to a different reality, forgetting that he will be tested again and how the school system (and not only that) was different back then. Thus the plot throws him several comical and provocative twists and through a surprising romantic entanglement it lets the audience see and recall the absurdity of the pre-revolution era.

All screenings are in Eurooppasali, Malminkatu 16, Helsinki; free of charge.