New & upcoming Slovak films

Sara works at the army headquarters in Prague. She is an attractive 29-year-old woman. While she is surrounded by men at the army headquarters, she has not yet found a partner. When she meets Martin, she is entranced by him. Martin takes a step he has never previously taken and reveals his naked body to […]

Alone, surrounded by deep forests, little boy Vašek sees something strange in the sky. His biological mother Iveta’s unexpected request catches his adoptive parents Jan and Pavel by surprise. Can the adults understand the young child’s emotions, or will Vašek have to face his fears all by himself? The dense film tells a story in […]

An allegorical fresco about three brothers lazy beyond grotesque, who are impossible to bring back to life even by the ghosts of their dead ancestors. An adaptation of a Slovak literary classic transposed to the poetics of magical realism which by means of allegory confronts the traumas of the Slovak people.

The End of the World is an original story of grandpa Igor, a son of Russian aristocrats, and his 9-year-old grandson Tonda, taking place during complicated times around 1968. It is a story full of contrasts, whether in the relation between what grandpa’s plentiful life entails and Tonda’s imminent children’s presence, or between poetry and […]

Promise, I’ll Be Fine follows 15-year-old Enrique and his mother, Martina. Enrique hopes for her return home so they can be together, instead of being apart due to her job. Living with his grandmother in a village, Enrique obeys his mother’s requests in the hope that they’ll save enough money to reunite. When he’s not […]

Hejkal is a feature-length live-action family fairy tale set in a world inspired by Central European folklore. Through a gripping and moving story about a forest creature and a Romani girl named Klára, the film explores themes of prejudice, acceptance of difference, living in harmony with nature, and overcoming the fear of the unknown. It […]

One phone call shakes Petra’s life from the ground up. Her husband’s fatal collapse causes Petra to become a widow from day to day. As she soon finds out, sadness and loneliness are not the only challenges she has to face.

In the 1990s post-communist Slovakia, former woods worker Miki takes his chances to start doing business at a local level and climb up the ladder to become the biggest mafia boss in the country.