The Hungarian Dressmaker
Marika, a Hungarian widow dressmaker shelters a Jewish boy in her home on the Slovak-Hungarian border during the turbulent years of World War 2 and the Wartime Slovak State.
Marika, a Hungarian widow dressmaker shelters a Jewish boy in her home on the Slovak-Hungarian border during the turbulent years of World War 2 and the Wartime Slovak State.
Prague 1967 – Tomáš (28) brings up his younger brother Pavel (16). He is not interested in politics himself and tries to keep his brother away from it too. Under unlikely circumstances, Tomáš is recruited as a technician for the pro-democracy Foreign Broadcasting Department of the Czechoslovak Radio, which is gaining more and more influence, […]
Domestic animal slaughter as a disappearing ritual, in the microcosm of which a person is revealed as he is.
When a runaway prisoner’s taste for power wipes out his mission to lead his fellow inmates to freedom, their path to a much-desired liberation steers them to a new kind of oppression. Zenith uses dance language to illustrate the power dynamics that have shaped the political landscape in recent decades, not only in Europe but […]
Ingrid, a single mother living with her daughter and grandmother in an eastern Slovak village where Roma face stigma, becomes a professional parent to a Roma girl to survive.
A mosaic film reflecting the feelings of Ukrainian refugees after the outbreak of the Russian invasion. Slovak refugee camp shelters different fates in each room while the desire to return back home embraces them all. Experimental film poem was created as a collective work shot on 35 mm film in an effort to capture the […]
Quiet and introverted Gregor lives with his mother Hermína in a small village in northern Slovakia. One day, his cousin Jano knocks on their door with an offer of a job in Hungary and, more importantly, the intention to mend irreparably damaged family relationships.
In the background of the conflict between a bus driver and a student on a school trip, the story of mutual understanding and uncovering of the family past unfolds in the microcosm of the bus.
Martin is an art curator who has it all – a niche gallery, a flat in a hip neighborhood, and a beautiful, successful wife. However, the monotony of everyday life bores him. So, he fills the hole dug by the lack of understanding and passion in his marriage with yogurts and erotic fantasies. And once […]