Song (20), a young Vietnamese, was naive to believe he might find a better future in Europe but now he is in the Vietnamese district in Prague, locked in a marijuana laboratory, and he lives as a modern-day slave. The police raid the building. Song runs away across the rooftop of a condo building in […]
The Christmas film filled with magic is interwoven with fantasy and virtually anything can happen in it. Albert, the main protagonist, is unhappily in love with his friend’s sister. Thanks to a good deed he is granted one wish from a magical old man, but with it comes the difficult question – how to make […]
“Beware of old people, they have nothing to lose.” The story of a retired teacher who becomes angry about the whole world. She doesn’t want to spend the rest of her life as a victim who always has to give in. She buys an illegal gun, learns to shoot, and then points it at a […]
Toman is a historical drama about Zdeněk Toman, the real-life conflicted person who headed the Department of Foreign Intelligence. He significantly influenced political developments in Czechoslovakia in 1945–1948, activities which substantially contributed to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia seizing power in a coup in 1948.
The desire for freedom during the period of “normalisation” in Czechoslovakia led to the creation of a group of individuals who professed a deep inclination towards the principles of the underground movement. After many years they are unable to face their mutual suspicions of betrayal in the form of cooperation with the state-security police. The […]
This creative, cinematographic story chronicles the birth of the Gypsy Band Lomnické Čháve in the difficult social circumstances of a Roma settlement in Eastern Slovakia. Their dream journey to find success is a powerful, inspirational story of hope and desire, full of emotions, electrifying Roma music and kind humour. We tell the tender story of […]
Rosťa Novák, the principal of the Cirk La Putyka ensemble, artistic workaholic and perfectionist, agrees to pursue a joint project with a group of acrobats from Rwanda. For the first time in his life, Rosťa travels to Africa, to create a circus show about the clash of different cultures. How will he cope with the […]
Milan (40), a guest-worker in Germany, discovers that, back home in Slovakia, his teenage son has become involved with home-grown militias when he is accused of bullying and killing a classmate. The father starts to seek out the truth about what happened, the truth about himself…
Documentary about the Occupation, as seen through the eyes of the occupiers. Five countries from the Warsaw Pact occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968. Fifty years later, five directors from these five countries shoot five short films about the invasion from the perspective of the people who played the part of the occupiers.