The Kafkaesque process of renovation of the Slovak National Gallery has been going on for over a decade and there is still no sign of its completion on the horizon. For all these years Alexandra, the managing director of the Gallery, has fought along her father, the architect appointed to the reconstruction, to bring to […]
The documentary The Painter Who Created a Photographer explores the artistic and life partnership of painter Ester Šimerová and photographer Martin Martinček. It focuses on the moment when a former lawyer, shaped by personal and political trauma, becomes a photographer and develops his own artistic language. Through the dialogue of painting and photography, archival material […]
A surreal reflection of death and life through the poetic lenses on the rarely captured moment of the funeral of a deceased grandmother in the vanishing world of the Ruthenian community in the hills of the Eastern Slovakia.
On a cold February morning, 12-year-old Niki and his family arrive at the Kharkiv metro station to take shelter from the terrifying war raging outside. For Niki’s family, daylight is synonymous with mortal danger, and the boy is not allowed to leave the station premises, living under the constant glow of their neon lights. While […]
The Brahmaputra, Karnali, and Colorado Rivers are fascinating for many river runners. Particularly, the Colorado River stands out as a unique stage where whitewater rapids unravel Earth’s ancient history. Within its wild water, it stirs up cherished memories of a dear friend, whose passion for discovering the mysteries of great rivers inspired many.
Eduard Grečner. Film director, dramaturge, publicist and poet. A talented filmmaker with precise artistic goals which, due to circumstances and the times, he was not always able to realise. Reflections on the ideological and aesthetic starting points he consecutively followed during his creative career, [as well as] on the meaning and mission of art and […]
A hands-on and deeply personal work, Notes from Eremocene is an audiovisual postcard dispatched by filmmaker Viera Čákanyová into an ambivalent world to come. Drawing upon a fictional conversation with her future virtual clone, the film offers a window into a world in which the technological solutions mankind has devised for sustaining its existence have […]
The story of Professor Emil Skamene, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P. (C), F.A.C.P., F.R.S.C., O.Q., one of the world’s most acclaimed immunologists and geneticists, physician, teacher, and researcher, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize. His contribution to genetics has had a significant impact on the world’s history. However, he had not known his own identity for […]
The high quality of art, performances pushing the limits, many international awards and Peter Dvorský’s attitude and philosophy themselves constitute the unique basis for our film. We would like to draw attention, in an attractive language, to the importance of artists and their impact in their work. Addressing young audiences too, we would like to […]