When twelve-year-old Nikča’s parents leave for the weekend, she finally has the whole apartment to herself. Together with her best friend Gabča, they plan a perfect girls’ night — frozen pizza, an old VHS tape, and a proper horror movie. It all sounds like a chill evening. But instead of watching a scary film, they […]
In 1980 communist Czechoslovakia, Mara dreams of leaving her village to study in the city and become a pilot. But her father, a Ruthenian farmer and widower, insists she stays and works the land. As their village faces destruction because of a new water reservoir, their generational conflict intensifies, revealing the struggle between tradition, identity, […]
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Investigator Pavel is one of the most successful in his field. He lives in Slovakia. After twenty years, he returns to the Czech Republic, to the border region of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, to reexamine the only case in his career that he never managed to solve. It’s a case of poisonings, but […]
David takes his two children on holiday to the Adriatic Sea, hoping to hold their fractured bilingual family together. His 17-year-old daughter, Klára, struggling with an eating disorder, falls in love with a local boy, Denis. When he is accused of murder, David rushes the children back home. Klára’s condition spirals, landing her in hospital. […]
A tragic mistake shatters the life of a devoted father, shaking his marriage and isolating him in guilt. As the threat of prison looms, he begins to question whether he deserves to go on living. But when he and his wife come to see that the tragedy was not a personal failure, but something rooted […]
According to one scientific theory, we are all born with a natural lack of alcohol in our blood, and our bodies function best when that level is maintained at 0.5‰. Teacher Martina and her three friends enthusiastically dive into a bold experiment to test this theory for themselves. How their experiment with regular alcohol consumption […]
In the early 1990s 13-year-old Karolína, a gifted novice singer, is given the chance to become a member of a world-famous girls’ choir, taking her place alongside her older sister and her other rivals in the ensemble. Karolína’s exceptional talent has caught the attention of the formidable and much admired choirmaster whose attention is wanted […]
Kien (17) arrives after 10 years from Vietnam to join his family at a market on the Czech-German border. Father Zung and the rest of the family try to connect with Kien, but they are faced with deep-seated trauma from the past. Meanwhile, Zung takes on an ethically problematic job from his brother-in-law Phong, the […]