Born in Prague in the 1960s, Bojena Horackova, craving liberty, left her country for Paris when she was seventeen, an experience she evokes in "A l'est de moi", a semi-documentary she made in 2008. She studied cinema at the famous IDHEC Film School and started as an actress in shorts. She later started ****** films, either fiction or documentary, short or feature length ("Malik n'est pas parti", 1996).