Andy Warhol remains unmapped by filmmakers with regard to his origins and personal life. The story of the icon connected with the history of Czechoslovak emigration, a hard life and whose dreams subsequently come true in a country which provided him with the opportunity to achieve personal self-fulfilment and success despite being different. This personality, […]
Juraj Mravec’s black-and-white photographs relativise the question of how the conflict in Eastern Ukraine started. The young Slovak photographer focuses on the consequences of war and depicts how senseless it is. The film revives the fates of people from Donbas through photographs filled with poverty and fear, but it also shows people made happy by […]
The High Tatras are the most frequently filmed location in Slovakia. Despite this, a plan to make yet another film about the Tatras came into existence in 2013. A documentary, an absolutely unique film in terms of image, a film as a testimony to one generation of people living in the Tatras who want to […]
Two Trabants, one Polish Fiat and an old Jawa motorcycle set out on a journey across Australia and the Pacific Islands. In addition to multiple dangers lurking in the unknown environments, the team faces a new challenge of having wheelchair users as one of its Trabant crews.
Paradise on Earth is a documentary by Jaro Vojtek about journalist and war photographer, Andrej Ban. Jaro, as his friend, has been a silent witness to his struggles, failed relationships and depressions. Their intimate conversations, in contrast with the tragic and painful war and refugee crisis, form the foundation of the film’s concept. Jaro follows […]
This full-length documentary depicts the most important milestones and mistakes entailed in building the Bata Empire. There are three main narrative levels in the film: the “biographical” one, the depiction of modern global capitalism (Bata being one of the pioneers), combined with the memories of Czech and Slovak “Batamen” across the whole world. The film […]
Janette is terminally ill and wants to die in a dignified way but this is not permitted under British law. She gets in touch with Dr. Erika in Switzerland, who is willing to help her. Muscular dystrophy, the illness that Janette suffers from, has affected her family for generations. Janette’s mother was wheelchair-bound for decades, […]
The documentary Heavy Heart is a view into the world of traditional Roma music. In three stories, the film’s authors attempt to trace how authentic sorrowful songs are passed down from generation to generation, or how they disappear. It is always about the relationship between children and their parents or grandparents, as music is an […]
Four stories about hearing-impaired children from Roma settlements who inhabit an environment they cannot fully comprehend and dream their own world. Sandra, who loves football and Ronaldinho; Marian, who wants to become a train conductor and idolises J. C. Van Damme; Alena and Rene, who fear that they’ll have a deaf child; and siblings Roman, […]