A chance to Czech out rarely seen classics

Cork film festival's new programme director has dipped into her homeland's rich movie heritage, writes Ellie O'Byrne

French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard is once supposed to have remarked that all you need to make a movie is “a girl and a gun".

 So when young sociology and film graduate Anna Kopecka was forming her own production company to shoot a series of shoestring collaborative short films with friends, she called her company Girl and Gun.