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. […]
The Holy Dormition Pochayiv Lavra is a mystical place. Here, three monks were freed from the trauma they had suffered in the past; this is where they find inner peace and a sense of purpose to life. Their stories are metaphors of transformation, enlightenment and spiritualisation against the backdrop of the raw Ukrainian reality. The […]
Miroslav Válek is such a very significant personality who, in the previous century, left such a mark on Slovak culture that not to come to terms with him would mean leaving his essential role without reflection. The film makes a responsible and objective contribution to this reflection. Válek’s “inner conflict” constitutes the basic starting point […]
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Eighteen years old Irena Brežná shortly after the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 unwillingly followed her parents to emigrate. She had to face not only inconceivable to her new culture, but also remorse that she did not fight for her homeland. That’s why she went to write about the dissident movement in Eastern Europe and […]
Made in Slovakia captures the tour of IMT Smile and the folk ensemble Lúčnica. The success of this tour also came as a pleasant surprise to the creators of the programme. They would like to mediate the atmosphere of the performance in the form of a documentary to those who were unable to attend the […]
In recent Slovak history, there’s scarcely any more significant a figure than Vladimír Mečiar. Director Tereza Nvotová approaches him from several different directions. One is an interview that she conducted with him face-to-face, another is his narrative monologue that presents Slovak history against the backdrop of his own family history, and finally through archival images […]
With hundred kilos on their backs they are facing storms, blizzards and deep snow. Their craft is not only a profession, but also their way to the calmness. In the documentary Freedom under Load we get to know the oldest generation of the porters in the High Tatras, who climb with supplies to the mountain […]