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 […]
The film tells the story of the inhabitants of a forgotten village close to the Austrian border after the events of the 1930s to 1950s come into their lives. Previously, all that was needed was to till the fields, survive the winter and raise children, but now the villagers must choose who is to be […]
A story of two friends who run a flourishing drone rental service. For the former classmates, drones are a ticket to many areas of human activity. A presidential candidate as well as artists organising happenings are among their clients. The drones in the film monitor power plants, they carry luxury handbags at a fashion show […]
His nickname was the “Czech locomotive”. The holder of eighteen world records, Emil Zátopek is most famous for the Olympic Games in Helsinki, where he won three gold medals. Nobody has repeated his success and athletics experts doubt that anyone ever will. Emil Zátopek’s supreme success comes alive in the memories of his loved ones, […]
A feature-length lyrical movie by Vladimír Morávek on the theme of the famous play A Ballad for a Bandit. A burned-out group of intellectuals decides to travel to Kolochava in Ukraine to perform the play there; however, everything goes wrong. They arrive late, the Ukrainians expect something else and the South Bohemian Philharmonic gets lost […]
Jan Šikl has spent many years seeking out and collecting private film archives. Faded footage of family lives, celluloid echoes of celebrations and everyday moments. Šikl came across several hours of footage showing the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. These unique images long remained unseen – until 2021, when historical memory awoke from a long […]
A social film experiment, in which those who prey on the innocence of children fall into their own traps. After a discussion with lawyers and psychologists, we cast three girls older than eighteen but looking very young and acting as if they were twelve. We created their profiles on Facebook and local community chat servers. […]
A film about combating mining companies in the small medieval town of Kremnica that was never conquered in history. Over the course of a seven-year time-lapse project, we watch the local citizens battle both local and international mining companies that want to join forces in mining for gold and minerals in mountain ridges just a […]