Anglo-American University Library

🎙️We cordially invites you to a special program featuring a screening of Vlny (Waves, 2024), followed by a discussion with the film’s renowned director and actor Jiří Mádl, moderated by AAU lecturer Mary Angiolillo

📆: Wednesday, April 22, 2026
⏰: 15:00-20:00

Program:
📽️ 𝟭𝟱:𝟭𝟱 - 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴
The Czech historical thriller Vlny (Waves, 2024) depicts the struggle of a Czechoslovak Radio crew during the 1968 Soviet invasion. The movie has achieved major international success, earning a spot on the 97th Academy Awards shortlist for Best International Feature Film, winning the Satellite Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, and securing six awards out of 14 nominations at the 2024 Czech Lion Awards.
 
🎤 𝟭𝟴:𝟬𝟬 - 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗤&𝗔 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝗶ří 𝗠á𝗱𝗹
Jiří Mádl is a prominent director, screenwriter and actor.  In 2009, he graduated from the University of J. A. Comenius where he studied Social and Mass Communication and subsequently graduated in screenwriting at the New York Film Academy. He is been one of the Czech Republic’s most recognizable young film stars since the mid-2000s, when he shot to fame as a teenage star in the 2004 comedy Snowboarďáci. Over the past two decades, he has transitioned from popular acting roles to becoming one of the most respected filmmakers in contemporary Czech cinema.
 
This event offers unique opportunity to meet directly with the creative mind behind the film. Don’t miss this opportunity and book this date in your calendar.

📖 We welcome all to join us in the Library March 19th at 18:00 for a special event with celebrated author Helen Oyeyemi, who returns to AAU for a reading and conversation on the writing process and her most recent novel A New New Me (2025).

📒 Helen Oyeyemi (*1984) is one of the most respected contemporary British novelists, known for blending folklore, myth, and fairy-tale traditions with modern psychological and literary fiction. She wrote her debut novel, The Icarus Girl (2005), while still in high school. While studying sociology and political science at University of Cambridge, she also began writing plays, before ultimately focusing on prose fiction. Her second novel, The Opposite House (2007), draws heavily on Cuban mythology, while White Is for Witching (2009), a gothic narrative influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, won the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award.
This was followed by Mr. Fox (2011). In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2013 she was named to Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists list. Her later works include Boy, Snow, Bird (2014), the short-story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (2016), which won the PEN Open Book Award, and the novels Gingerbread (2019) and Peaces (2021).
Published in February 2024, her eighth novel Parasol Against the Axe is her first to be set in the Czech Republic, where she has lived for more than a decade. Her most recent book, A New New Me (2025), also takes place there, reflecting her ongoing engagement with the country’s culture, language, and literary landscape.

A new semester means new cultural programming! This time in collaboration with we welcome all to join us March 3rd at 18:00 for an evening with the celebrated Czech artist , moderated by the Visual Art Studies program’s own Josef Záruba 🗿

🌼 a new semester full of cultural goodies is upon us! stay tuned for more info and details ✍️