Juraj Mravec’s black-and-white photographs relativise the question of how the conflict in Eastern Ukraine started. The young Slovak photographer focuses on the consequences of war and depicts how senseless it is. The film revives the fates of people from Donbas through photographs filled with poverty and fear, but it also shows people made happy by […]
The High Tatras are the most frequently filmed location in Slovakia. Despite this, a plan to make yet another film about the Tatras came into existence in 2013. A documentary, an absolutely unique film in terms of image, a film as a testimony to one generation of people living in the Tatras who want to […]
Two Trabants, one Polish Fiat and an old Jawa motorcycle set out on a journey across Australia and the Pacific Islands. In addition to multiple dangers lurking in the unknown environments, the team faces a new challenge of having wheelchair users as one of its Trabant crews.
Four stories about hearing-impaired children from Roma settlements who inhabit an environment they cannot fully comprehend and dream their own world. Sandra, who loves football and Ronaldinho; Marian, who wants to become a train conductor and idolises J. C. Van Damme; Alena and Rene, who fear that they’ll have a deaf child; and siblings Roman, […]
We seek to capture official, private and hidden realities within communities that are excluded from the main historical narrative of the region. Our main interests are those songs which describe in tragic, brutal and comic ways domestic abuse, murder, conflict, sex, love and hate. We want to show that the alternative folklore of the region: […]
The World Economic Forum in 2014 described and statistically documented a number of key global issues that indicate a critical and disruptive social phenomena. Among them is the deteriorating position of representative democracy, consisting in the loss of confidence in elected representatives of the people and of the mechanisms and processes that precede the election. […]
By looking into and penetrating the inner world of mentally ill people, the director would like to examine the causes that frequently underlie these diseases and, at the same time, contribute to a change in the prevalent negative and discriminatory view of mental diseases which are, in particular, perceived as a degradation of man. However, […]
Paradise on Earth is a documentary by Jaro Vojtek about journalist and war photographer, Andrej Ban. Jaro, as his friend, has been a silent witness to his struggles, failed relationships and depressions. Their intimate conversations, in contrast with the tragic and painful war and refugee crisis, form the foundation of the film’s concept. Jaro follows […]
This full-length documentary depicts the most important milestones and mistakes entailed in building the Bata Empire. There are three main narrative levels in the film: the “biographical” one, the depiction of modern global capitalism (Bata being one of the pioneers), combined with the memories of Czech and Slovak “Batamen” across the whole world. The film […]