Alex’s big day keeps on falling apart. Her neurotic mother controls every step she makes, her stepfather investigates a mysterious crime and her biological father, the bohemian owner of the hotel where the wedding is taking place, is responsible for the missing groom. The chaos in the hotel suits the charming ski instructor Peter who […]
Emma is a lively 25-year-old shop assistant living in a small town. Tomas is a 30-year-old roofer living in a village nearby the capital. They spend a night together, with no expectations. However, it becomes the start of a relationship, love, living together. Emma decides to unburden herself and is ready to tell Tomas about […]
Štefan Pongo is a Roma lorry driver. Fifteen years ago he emigrated with his family from the Czech Republic to the UK to protect them from racial discrimination. The children have graduated from universities and the family is doing well. Mission completed. But the echoes of hate carry over from the old country. When the […]
The father falls into a coma and the family is left in a terminal life situation. The mother and son silently concentrate all their powers. They meekly accept the diagnosis but resist the verdict. Yet they reject an open conflict because the life thread is so taut that conflict could inadvertently break it.
The law represents a fixed order of social relations. When this order is questioned, society finds itself immersed in uncertainty, in a fog. “Fog” is also the code name of the operation investigating the corruption of judges exposed in the Threema application found in the mobile phone of the infamous “entrepreneur” Marián Kočner. The documentary […]
A country somewhere at the foot of mountains is controlled by high-ranking criminals, people connected to politics, mafia, the police, courts. An addicted teenager vanishes from the resocialisation centre and no one misses her. She wants to tell the police about forced sex and drugs. She seeks out a journalist, he starts to disentangle the […]
After the divorce, Simona tries to move on with her life alone, as her son decides to live with his father. Natália finds love in a relationship with a widower, his little daughter and grandmother with a heart bigger than the sea. Eva, already in her advancing years, learns that love does not care about […]
Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, away from his troubled family life in Tehran, and instead immerses himself in researching his father’s past as a communist expatriate in former Czechoslovakia. On visiting the flat where his father used to live fifty years previously, he’s stopped by the police investigating a recent accident.
Varnsdorf, a town in the north of the Czech Republic, where all the factories were closed down following the Velvet Revolution, and replaced with non-stop gambling houses, casinos and hookers. Kamila, a twenty-year-old girl who is fed up with life in a dead-end town works in TITANIC, one of the non-stop places with slot machines […]