“I thought it would be easier,” admits director Marta Kovářová halfway through the film. In the form of a vivid diary, she captures her father’s fight for climate justice. Jiří Svoboda from the Institute of Physics of Materials of the Czech Academy of Sciences came up with an ingeniously simple idea to reduce greenhouse gas […]
Dušan Hanák, a legend of Czechoslovak cinema, responds to the very questions he once asked the protagonists of his own films. This intimate documentary essay — composed of interview fragments, archival footage, and contemporary encounters — becomes a cinematic dialogue of the master with himself. A visually rich collage, the film is not only a […]
Ten years ago, in March 2011, damaged by an earthquake and a tsunami, three reactors went into meltdown at the nuclear power station in Fukushima, Japan. Everyone within 20 kilometres of the plant was evacuated, but Naoto Matsumura chose to stay – out of 80,000 residents, the sole person remaining. Now he still lives without […]
Under the burning sun, a solitary bull waits tirelessly, while a man dives deep into the darkest waters of his soul in a shared attempt to conquer death.
This film essay maps the Slovak State (1939–1945), examining its ties to Nazi Germany, the “parish republic’s” failures, totalitarian laws, and the Holocaust. Through six thematic lines, it analyzes propaganda, the abuse of religion, artistic resistance, and daily life. The goal is to provide a non-academic, critical portrayal of a regime built on hatred that […]
Slovakia has 1 200 environmental burdens, of which 260 are critical. A documentary film by three female directors about the three biggest ecological disasters in Slovakia. A film about a country disoriented in its values and overwhelmed by a dysfunctional bureaucracy, a country in love with short-term plans and false promises, a country incapable of […]
Sláva is an opinionated femme fatale. Self-aware and reflexive. A forty-two-year-old independent artist and cultural nomad who gives her plays a unique character. Her artistic approach differs from her older male colleagues, and art answers all her personal worries and doubts. Or does it?
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 […]
To evoke and imagine the near future, World of Walls is set in an environment of extreme social divisions and escalating climate crisis. The story takes place in an unspecified country that is being destroyed by on-going environmental disasters, located in today’s South Africa. The rich are living inside strictly protected luxury estates with secure […]