Nina is 12. Her parents are getting a divorce and her world is falling apart before her eyes. Her mum and dad say they are only doing what is best for her but, in fact, they act as though they only cared about themselves. Nina doesn’t understand them. She feels abandoned and deceived – it’s […]
Ágoston, a fifty-year-old man, takes up the chance to go abroad on a quest for the job of his long-forgotten dreams and gets caught up in the strangely absurd events of an Eastern European odyssey.
This comedy, inspired by paperback crime novels, tells the story of an action-packed search for a mysterious murderer who, just after the end of the First World War, has gone on the rampage in Wilson City, a run-down town somewhere in Eastern Europe. The investigation is led by an unlikely pair of detectives – a […]
Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa’s women’s correctional facilities. She has just given birth to her first child, and now she is entering a world populated only by women: inmates, nurses and wardens, women of all ages, wives and widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant women, […]
Karol is a teenager like any other – young, athletic, on the cusp of life. Things change after he becomes an accidental witness to a murder. Driven by curiosity, he begins to follow the murderer to eventually discover “curious needs” of his own, the existence of which he had only just sensed so far, but […]
A story inspired by true events about two children whose innocent play will change their lives forever. Ten years-old and living with a mother who is not yet ready to be a mum, Jarka is driven by her desire to love and form a family to the point where she finds herself giving shelter to […]
The story is set in the 1990s and depicts criminal events in which the state and its security forces played an important role.
True story of the last woman to be executed in Czechoslovakia. Olga Hepnarova was a young, lonely lesbian outsider from a coldhearted family who couldn’t play the part society desired of her. Her paranoid self-examination and inability to connect with other people eventually drove her over the edge of humanity when she was only 22 […]
The long hot summer of 1992, shortly before the break-up of Czechoslovakia. While reconstructing a cemetery, the workers chance upon a body with a nail stuck in the skull. The man was hurriedly and secretly buried seven years previously. The murder is too fresh and too cruel to be ignored. However, it would be better […]