This film essay maps the Slovak State (1939–1945), examining its ties to Nazi Germany, the “parish republic’s” failures, totalitarian laws, and the Holocaust. Through six thematic lines, it analyzes propaganda, the abuse of religion, artistic resistance, and daily life. The goal is to provide a non-academic, critical portrayal of a regime built on hatred that […]
Slovakia has 1 200 environmental burdens, of which 260 are critical. A documentary film by three female directors about the three biggest ecological disasters in Slovakia. A film about a country disoriented in its values and overwhelmed by a dysfunctional bureaucracy, a country in love with short-term plans and false promises, a country incapable of […]
Sláva is an opinionated femme fatale. Self-aware and reflexive. A forty-two-year-old independent artist and cultural nomad who gives her plays a unique character. Her artistic approach differs from her older male colleagues, and art answers all her personal worries and doubts. Or does it?
After enduring the horrors of the war in eastern Ukraine since 2014, three young veterans return home. As they struggle to find their place in daily life as civilians, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 throws them right back into the trauma they have tried so hard to escape.
The Consequences of Truth is a biographical auteur-led documentary that tells the story of Alfred Wetzler, a Slovak Jewish hero who warned the world about the Nazi extermination machinery and helped to save almost 150 000 lives. Yet he was persecuted and erased from history by his own communist government after the war. The film […]
To evoke and imagine the near future, World of Walls is set in an environment of extreme social divisions and escalating climate crisis. The story takes place in an unspecified country that is being destroyed by on-going environmental disasters, located in today’s South Africa. The rich are living inside strictly protected luxury estates with secure […]
Slovakia is a country of drinking water. We have no oil, no gold, no gems, but we do have huge water resources. Corn Island is our greatest wealth. Many people from Bratislava decided to buy or build a house there, one of the reasons being the high-quality water with its own well. However, new houses […]
The small village in the isolated Transylvanian valley has been sinking into toxic sludge for decades. As a result of ongoing copper mining, thousands of tonnes of waste flow into the valley every day. Near the tailings pond only old widows live there and one middle-aged woman Valerica. She ran away from her family and […]
Katka was thirteen. Roman was forty. The summer camp Chachaland, once a place of joy for children, became a place of abuse. What followed were years of therapy, depression, and PTSD. As an adult, Katka found the strength to write a blog and take her abuser to court.The film is an intimate testimony to how […]