This Year in September(1963)

This Year in September is a coming-of-age film about the painful collision of first love. Sixteen-year-old Hanka harbors feelings for Pavel Horák, a college student who shares her attraction but lacks the courage to act on it. Their encounters are fraught with awkwardness and unspoken longing—each meeting dissolves into disappointment and mutual uncertainty. The film captures the vulnerability of adolescence, where desire and shyness create an unbridgeable distance between two people who want the same thing but cannot find their way toward it. Pavel's timidity mirrors Hanka's own insecurity, trapping them both in a cycle of missed connections and quiet anguish.