New & upcoming Slovak films

When natural elements turn the Christmas vacation into an involuntary prison in a mountain hut and the children decide to take their parents’ fate into their own hands, a romantic comedy can get under way.

Story of the parents of an accursed solider told from the perspective of their 17-year old grandson Janek. “Odrowąż” dies in 1946, the Department of Security digs up his body four times to make sure that this enemy of the state is well and truly dead. The mother can’t bear the humiliation, she steals the […]

In 1938, young Czechoslovaks learn to play basketball from American Mormons at YMCA camp. When the war starts, their coach is arrested and executed and the team is taken over by young lawyer Franta. After the liberation, Franta visits the prison where their coach died, picks up a handful of soil, puts it in a […]

This original Czech-Slovak fairy-tale talks about love, greed and narrow-mindedness, but also about human courage and ingenuity. It is the story of the young watchmaker’s apprentice Urban who, thanks to his kind heart and watchmaker’s skill, overcomes many obstacles on the journey to the miraculous watch warning before Death and thus rescues his beloved Laura.

A romantic Christmas comedy with an exceptional cast, shot in winter in the High Tatras. The narrative begins a few days before Christmas and ends at New Year and, through many comic but also romantic situations, it shows that love takes many forms but eventually finds everyone.

In this film, based on a successful Czech TV series, Doc Martin solves personal mysteries and detective plots. Over the course of a single day, he has to look after his small child, settle his traditional misunderstandings with his partner and get to the bottom of a mystery with tracks leading deep into the past. […]

The story of three families set in the era of the major social changes brought about by the collapse of communism and the creation of democratic Czechoslovakia. Their fates are linked by Havel’s amnesty and the events in Leopoldov prison. The idea of the amnesty was to underline that the previous system of justice was […]

Igor discovers records of testimonies of the psychiatric patient, Walter Fischer, who mysteriously disappeared seventy years ago in the Tribeč Mountain Range. Igor pursues his investigations and is astonished to find that Fischer’s case is not unique – references to mysterious disappearances of people in this mountain range go back a long way in history. […]

Fourteen-year-old Darek lives with his father and younger sister in a small village on the Czech side of the Czech-German-Polish border. After his mother, with whom he had a very gentle relationship, dies, his life changes. His father loses his job and becomes addicted to booze. That is why the plan of his father’s old […]