28th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
5 MARCH → 15 MARCH 2026
68 beyond 68

Czech Republic 2008 52 ProRes Color
The first smile on the “human face” of socialism, in other words in the Prague Spring, during which there was a glimmer of hope that society as a whole would fully recover. The film, pieced together solely from period footage without commentary, chronologically recalls the key moments of an era when the process of democratization and revival was also accompanied by an extraordinary cultural boom, before its violent collapse.