Director
Bohdan Sláma
59 years · Opava, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic] · 10 films
Bohdan Sláma (born 29 May 1967 in Opava) is a Czech film director. He studied at the Czech Technical University (ČVUT) and completed his studies in feature film direction at Prague’s FAMU in 1997 with his graduate film White Acacias (1996). His feature debut The Wild Bees (2001) drew on the poetic style of the 1960s Czechoslovak New Wave and won numerous awards at international film festivals (e.g. Tiger Award at Rotterdam and SKYY prize at San Francisco). Representing the Czech Republic, the film competed for an Oscar nomination and the European Film Award. The similarly atmospheric film Something Like Happiness (2005) took away seven Czech Lions and Best Film at San Sebastián. Further accolades followed for Country Teacher (2008), which won two Czech Lions, and Four Suns (2012), which competed at Sundance. Sláma has also shot several episodes of the series Blaník Office. He heads the department of film direction at FAMU.
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Filmography 9
The End of the World
2024 · Director
Dry Season
2024 · Director, Screenplay
Shadow Country
2020 · Director
Ice Mother
2017 · Director, Screenplay
On Hoopla
Four Suns
2012 · Director, Screenplay
The Country Teacher
2008 · Director, Screenplay
Something Like Happiness
2005 · Director, Screenplay
Radhošť
2002 · Director
The Wild Bees
2001 · Writer, Director