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 […]
February 2022. Anna (37) from Vienna travels to her childhood Slovak-Ukrainian border village to visit her grandmother’s grave after learning her mother was adopted. She wears a prosthetic belly, hiding that a Ukrainian surrogate, Irina, carries her child. When war breaks out, Anna loses contact with Irina. Ignoring her partner Greg’s pleas to return, Anna […]
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.
Video footage shot by two sisters portrays their escape from the real world through their phone while living with their mother, who is escaping the same world but with the help of alcohol. Their nice memories are interwoven with the family’s struggles.
Two friends from Eastern Slovakia, Veronika and Klára, live and work in the capital city. After a long time they are forced to travel home to Prešov and Kysak, where they have to attend obligatory family and social events – a funeral and three weddings. However, more happens than anyone expected.
Six-year-old Amálka lives with her parents and grandparents under one roof in a small town in the early 1990s in Czechoslovakia. She is an innocent and playful girl who perceives the world with emotions and intuition. When her parents’ marriage gets into crisis, they try to hide it from her, but she gets caught in […]
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.