Šimon Holý on ‘Czech Girl’, drag, family and queer rights0

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• July 4, 2026

A drag queen opens up to her small-town mother, but all hell doesn’t break loose in Šimon Holý’s heartfelt and enjoyable film, “Czech Girl.” The film screens Saturday in the Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s Crystal Globe competition. Holý, who wrote, directed and scored the film, spent “seven or eight years” with “Czech Girl,” developing the