Bohdan Sláma
Bohdan Sláma (born 1967) is a Czech filmmaker whose quiet, often melancholy character studies set in small-town and rural Czech life have made him one of the most distinctive voices in post-Velvet Czech cinema. Born in Opava, he studied at the Czech Technical University before completing his degree in feature film direction at Prague's FAMU in 1997 with the graduate film White Acacias. His debut feature Wild Bees (2001), drawing on the poetic tradition of the Czechoslovak New Wave, won the Tiger Award at Rotterdam. Something Like Happiness (2005), set in a post-industrial borderland, won seven Czech Lions and Best Film at San Sebastián. Country Teacher (2008) and Four Suns (2012) further cemented his reputation; the latter premiered at Sundance.