David takes his two children on holiday to the Adriatic Sea, hoping to hold their fractured bilingual family together. His 17-year-old daughter, Klára, struggling with an eating disorder, falls in love with a local boy, Denis. When he is accused of murder, David rushes the children back home. Klára’s condition spirals, landing her in hospital. […]
A tragic mistake shatters the life of a devoted father, shaking his marriage and isolating him in guilt. As the threat of prison looms, he begins to question whether he deserves to go on living. But when he and his wife come to see that the tragedy was not a personal failure, but something rooted […]
Drawn to the beauty of his new employer Sára, the ruined caregiver Ľuboš repeats the same old mistakes. Living in the basement of her sterile villa, he tends to her ailing mother – preparing breakfast, watering the plants, showering, helping her die. Will Sára accept his faults? A subtle melodrama about going on, even with […]
In the shadow of the Zámocká shooting in Bratislava, Jaro’s (18) inner trauma and struggle with his hidden identity come to a head. When homophobia from an acquaintance corners him after a training session, he is forced to act. A devastating probe into a young man’s soul, where words fail and, in a silent spasm, […]
According to one scientific theory, we are all born with a natural lack of alcohol in our blood, and our bodies function best when that level is maintained at 0.5‰. Teacher Martina and her three friends enthusiastically dive into a bold experiment to test this theory for themselves. How their experiment with regular alcohol consumption […]
When a strange incident involving an ancient artifact occurs at a Prague museum, curator Zuzana Heranová (30) notices a detail that turns everything upside down: Aphrodite’s apple hides a clue to a long-lost statue of the goddess and a myth associated with immortality. For Zuzana, who is struggling with her mother’s illness and her own […]
Kukura by Kerekes. Not a polite portrait, but at times a painful probe into ageing, outsiderhood, uniqueness and clashes with provinciality. It follows an actor who always stood out from the average. Through his journeys, returns and memories, the film reveals the tension between worldliness and the “village in the valley”.
The triad played a fundamental role in the creation of the world, shapes the dialectic of development, and echoes in our hesitation — yes, no, I don’t know. This personal 16mm film began as a meditation on the very direction of progress — a value that has become omnipresent in modern society, where all positive […]
In the early 1990s 13-year-old Karolína, a gifted novice singer, is given the chance to become a member of a world-famous girls’ choir, taking her place alongside her older sister and her other rivals in the ensemble. Karolína’s exceptional talent has caught the attention of the formidable and much admired choirmaster whose attention is wanted […]