New & upcoming Slovak films

Mai is a Vietnamese yet lives her whole life in the Czech Republic. She gets an offer from Vietnam to have an arranged marriage. Will she agree with it or will she resist and remain „westernly“ selfish and independent?

After Annamaria (12), a Roma, wins a race dressed in ballerinas, coach Norbert (35) agrees to train her. After initial struggles with hereditary poverty, Annamaria wins the National Championship. When Norbert finally realizes he is responsible for her on and off track, it is too late. She is pregnant. Norbert tries to help, but is […]

During a pandemic crisis, an ex-convict from a small South Moravian town launches into a series of staged thefts to help local businesses survive bankruptcy.

Young Yiou, originally from China, has just finished her cello studies in Prague and does not want to return to her homeland. Since she will not get a permanent place in the orchestra, her only option to stay in Prague is to get a partner visa. She applies for it together with her partner, the […]

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 […]

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A comedy about an altar boy from a small conservative Slovak village. Miško (12) faces a complicated problem. He wants to be just like his brother Lukáš (17) – big, strong, and reasonable. Yet he’s still small, naïve and secretly in love with his brother’s girlfriend, Linda (16). One day, when Miško tries to impress […]

The film is based on real events – in 2005 Viktor Kalivoda murdered 3 random strollers he chanced upon in the forests in Czechia. The case received much attention for its lack of motive. After his arrest, Kalivoda confessed, but did not reveal his motive. The film will closely observe one year in his life […]