Filthy is the coming-of-age story of seventeen-year old Lena. In love with a boy for the first time, Lena longs for freedom and adventure. Her magical world is instantly shattered when her teacher, whom all her classmates have a crush on, rapes her in her own home. Instead of sharing her trauma, Lena keeps it […]
This film was inspired by three real-life stories from Slovakia, Russia and Canada. The Internet altered the fates of the three protagonists and brought them to the brink of life and death. It could happen to anyone! Who’s next? (1) The rapper Aless ends her string of concerts with a performance in her home town. […]
The marriage of Milan and Táňa Labát is going through a crisis. Their 16-year-old daughter Lenka takes their alienation very hard. But one night will change their lives forever. Lenka is celebrating her 16th birthday, but she never returns home. Milan decides to take the search for his daughter into his own hands. Filled with […]
A woman leaves her husband and two children without a word. She is impelled by an inexplicable force. She wants to be free. Nora leaves for Vienna where she meets a younger man but she has the impression that the environment, which is culturally close to her own country, does not provide her with sufficient […]
Summer is finally here! Jonas is excited to be spending the holidays with his grandpa Bernard. But with no wife and no job, grandpa is not in the best of moods. Jonas knows something needs to be done. This is the beginning of a turbulent summer story which ends in an extraordinary friendship.
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 7 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and resilience of other inmates, they manage to escape. While the inmates they left behind courageously stand their ground against the Nazi officers, […]
Michael, a stand-up comedian, dreams big. Flying high, he quits his day job and hassles a new TV show to become a famous name in Slovakia. However unprepared for what is coming, his American niece and fresh college dropout Julia, seeking a new start in Europe, clips his wings and pulls him back into orbit.
A local pub in a small town. It’s Monday and the bar is closed, the chairs are stacked upside down on the tables. The pub is empty except for six amateur actors sitting in a corner. They’ve met to rehearse “The Insect Play” by the Čapek brothers. On a raised platform across the room we […]
Superwoman is an omnibus about the female world seen through male optics. If it is true that women are from Venus, and if it is true that Venus is our closest and at the same time the least explored planet, then this is exactly what could be said about women. They are mysterious and always […]