In recent Slovak history, there’s scarcely any more significant a figure than Vladimír Mečiar. Director Tereza Nvotová approaches him from several different directions. One is an interview that she conducted with him face-to-face, another is his narrative monologue that presents Slovak history against the backdrop of his own family history, and finally through archival images […]
With hundred kilos on their backs they are facing storms, blizzards and deep snow. Their craft is not only a profession, but also their way to the calmness. In the documentary Freedom under Load we get to know the oldest generation of the porters in the High Tatras, who climb with supplies to the mountain […]
A story about a father and son concealed within one man. It is a story of taking stock of one’s life. Of humility and recovery. Of the renaissance of the soul. An exposed singer is the main hero of the story. His borderline conditions and several other circumstances land him in hospital. During the first […]
They were exiled by war. They lost everything. Abroad they have started from zero, without anyone’s help. The story about temperate community of exiles from former Yugoslavia, living in Slovakia, shows us destiny, nostalgia, but also the tenacious striving to built home and decent life.
World renowned photographer, Yuri Dojc, returns to Slovakia, his home country which he left in 1968 following the Soviet invasion. He is on a journey of discovery of his roots and much much more. The encounters with people he photographs and places he visits lead him to an abandoned Jewish school where only the disintegrating […]
Anton Srholec is the powerful life-story of an important man – a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Salesian order who was rejected by his own Catholic hierarchy. He was also a writer, charity worker, political prisoner, lover of people and a devoted follower of Christ. Despite the difficult circumstances of his life, Anton […]
Radek Jaroš, the first Czech who competed the Crown of the Himalayas, decided to climb his final 8000er with a camera in tow, giving viewers of this film a rare opportunity to experience his K2 expedition firsthand. The most majestic mountains are suddenly within reach of all who admire their grandeur but would never attempt […]
The Czech Way tells a story of Czechoslovak economic transformation of the 90s. This transformation took place in the period, when the Czech and Slovak nationhood were established, so it was presented as the key to the transformation of totalitarian society into a democratic one, and – on the other side, publicly understood mainly as […]
Slovak nurse, Ľuba El Malaheg, guides us through Libya during the reign of Muammar al Gaddafi, at the time of the civil war and after the war. She finds herself at the edge of two worlds but neither is her home.