Olympic Halftime is a documentary, that shows and reflects on the gestalt and economic impact of the Olympic architecture and urban development in several selected locations in Europe and Asia, that have already hosted the event and are preparing for another round. The choice of the cities is balanced so that we can document various […]
Oanh, a Slovak-Vietnamese woman, recalls her 1990s childhood with Hana in Czechoslovakia, where xenophobia began shaping post-socialist life. Limits to Our Pain is a mosaic documentary combining archival materials, photographs, and staged scenes to reconstruct an individual past against the backdrop of historical change. The film gives voice to a minority experience and shows how […]
Why is Russia silent? In our country we can hardly hear the voices that criticize the regime or voices of resistance. The political film A Man in Russia is a look inside the movement and individuals who, despite massive silencing and repression, do not stop believing in the liberation of the country from the Russian […]
12. 10. 2022 – terrorist attack in Bratislava – death of 2 innocent LGBTI+ people – no response. Film-requiem discusses the deteriorating state of society after the attack, as well as the intimate feelings of LGBTI+ people, including the author himself. Suppressed emotions cannot be filtered even on a self-defense course, where the participants do […]
Never Been Better is a documentary film mapping 35 years of the band HEX. It is the story of our generation that grew up on their songs, a story of friendship and creative search, but also a story of losses and new beginnings. From the Bratislava beginnings through albums, concerts, milestones to anniversary celebrations and […]
A tribute to grandparents and an apartment on the top floor of a Bratislava apartment block overlooking the Danube and Austria takes the form of an intimate dialogue. Between generations, past and present, East and West. The apartment in which the filmmaker’s grandparents lived through totalitarian regime and its change until the near present time. […]
In a devastated Slovak town poisoned by magnesite mining, six Roma children refuse to accept their harsh reality, finding refuge in imagination, friendship, and their dreams that become their only form of resistance.
The film follows the fate of Romani, minority within a minority. Queer Romas search for their living space and dream of working abroad. A legless father of five children longs for a wheelchair. A Romani grandmother sacrifices her life for the health of her beloved grandson. Will Emil, a Romani man who found faith in […]
A film about the actress Emília Vášáryová should be a look back at her life and work. The scope of her work is incredibly wide. She co-created the shape of modern Slovak and Czech theatre, film, television and radio. In the course of her journey, she came into contact with important personalities of our own […]