When we hear that someone did not finished three schools, we tend to expect, that his personal and professional life would be a tale of failure. This is not the case of Slovak filmmaker Ján Kadár who did not finish law at the Charles University in Prague, neither the school of Applied Arts in Bratislava, or the FAMU film school in Prague. On the contrary, his life and career compose the story of a successful self-made man, a film director who made both experimental films and film that were widely popular.

Béla Balázs – In Praise of the Art of Cinema + bonus DVD Dragon’s Return
The anthology Béla Balázs – In Praise of the Art of Cinema comprises the articles from the 12th Czech and Slovak Film Studies Conference, held on October 22 – 25, 2009 in Levoča. The annual conference inviting Czech and Slovak film scholars and historians focused on the oeuvre of Béla Balázs (1884–1949), filmmaker and pioneer of film theory in the first half of the 20th century.