Slovakia is a hockey nation. Yet, the generation of the World Champions has retired and there is no one to take up the banner. The 2019 IIHF World Championship brought a new spark of hope. It was Košice City that was given a chance to stir the passions in the new generation of ice hockey […]
A unique documentary portrait of Meky Žbirka – the eternal gentleman and wonderful companion who loves the Beatles and who exudes a good mood. Thereby, his life is full of unexpected turns, twists and decisions which often meant that he had to give up everything he had until then.
Video Kings is a feature-length documentary with re-enactments, which portrays the import, copying and dubbing of movies from the west in socialist Czechoslovakia and marginally also in Poland and Hungary. In the times when it was impossible to officially obtain movies produced in the west, there were groups of people who smuggled in these movies, […]
The law represents a fixed order of social relations. When this order is questioned, society finds itself immersed in uncertainty, in a fog. “Fog” is also the code name of the operation investigating the corruption of judges exposed in the Threema application found in the mobile phone of the infamous “entrepreneur” Marián Kočner. The documentary […]
The director of this documentary film is interviewing other documentary film makers from his current, previous and following generation. Gradually, he is trying to reveal their passion for this film making, technical and economic background, to map ethical boundaries or to deal with the future of the documentary film. In approximately 90 minutes, his attempt […]
Jan Šikl has spent many years seeking out and collecting private film archives. Faded footage of family lives, celluloid echoes of celebrations and everyday moments. Šikl came across several hours of footage showing the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. These unique images long remained unseen – until 2021, when historical memory awoke from a long […]
A social film experiment, in which those who prey on the innocence of children fall into their own traps. After a discussion with lawyers and psychologists, we cast three girls older than eighteen but looking very young and acting as if they were twelve. We created their profiles on Facebook and local community chat servers. […]
A film about combating mining companies in the small medieval town of Kremnica that was never conquered in history. Over the course of a seven-year time-lapse project, we watch the local citizens battle both local and international mining companies that want to join forces in mining for gold and minerals in mountain ridges just a […]
The musical documentary tells the story of Patrik “Rytmus” Vrbovský and his thirty-year rap career in Slovakia. The story of the film maps his musical path from zero to the top – losses, wins and facts against the historical background of rap and hip-hop in Slovakia. Three decades of the Slovak hip-hop scene are described […]