Moments, a contemporary family drama, is structured around the young, warm-hearted woman, Anežka, who is always there for her family, tries to help everybody and keep her promises. But over the course of the story she learns that one’s self sacrifice needs to be limited and that sometimes she also needs to fulfil her own […]
Radek Jaroš, the first Czech who competed the Crown of the Himalayas, decided to climb his final 8000er with a camera in tow, giving viewers of this film a rare opportunity to experience his K2 expedition firsthand. The most majestic mountains are suddenly within reach of all who admire their grandeur but would never attempt […]
The Czech Way tells a story of Czechoslovak economic transformation of the 90s. This transformation took place in the period, when the Czech and Slovak nationhood were established, so it was presented as the key to the transformation of totalitarian society into a democratic one, and – on the other side, publicly understood mainly as […]
Slovak nurse, Ľuba El Malaheg, guides us through Libya during the reign of Muammar al Gaddafi, at the time of the civil war and after the war. She finds herself at the edge of two worlds but neither is her home.
A child is born and three fairy godmothers watch over its fate. One gives the child extraordinary attributes, the second one strews many obstacles in its path and the third advises the child on how to find happiness despite everything. However, what happens if one of the fairy godmothers fails to perform her role? A […]
A film inspired by the closely observed life of punks who spend their lives on the periphery of the city. A thirty-year-old drug addict lives in a decaying sublet at a dump with his partner and his two-year-old son. His “idyllic” world is suddenly threatened by a letter from the social services. In fear of […]
An Angel of the Lord 2 is a loose sequel to the successful Christmas fairy tale about the symbolic antitheses of good and evil – angel Petronel and devil Uriah who head off into the human world to find the lost apple of the Tree of Knowledge. They have to undergo many human and “divine” […]
Winter 1939. Flamboyant Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk has fled to America to escape his recent past. Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and Masaryk is now a man without a nation. In America, he tries to forget the personal and political betrayals he and his country have suffered – but these events shadow his every step. Having […]
The year is 1980. Michal and Juraj are students at a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Fearing the dissolution of their school, the tutors are moulding the seminarians into a shape satisfactory to the ruling Communist Party. Each of the young students must decide if he will give in to the temptation and choose the […]