A story about young dancers from a small town whose friendships, loves, dreams of fame and views of the world become more complicated when a good-natured railway-station worker, Hugo, enters their lives. A riveting dance film for young audiences about dreams, ambitions and the importance of family and friendship.
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Dedicated home-care nurse Vlasta attends her capricious patients in the Czech wine country, and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, giving them more than they are asking for. Then, one day, things change and Vlasta is forced to step outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for […]
This comedy, inspired by paperback crime novels, tells the story of an action-packed search for a mysterious murderer who, just after the end of the First World War, has gone on the rampage in Wilson City, a run-down town somewhere in Eastern Europe. The investigation is led by an unlikely pair of detectives – a […]
A story inspired by true events about two children whose innocent play will change their lives forever. Ten years-old and living with a mother who is not yet ready to be a mum, Jarka is driven by her desire to love and form a family to the point where she finds herself giving shelter to […]
Karol is a teenager like any other – young, athletic, on the cusp of life. Things change after he becomes an accidental witness to a murder. Driven by curiosity, he begins to follow the murderer to eventually discover “curious needs” of his own, the existence of which he had only just sensed so far, but […]
True story of the last woman to be executed in Czechoslovakia. Olga Hepnarova was a young, lonely lesbian outsider from a coldhearted family who couldn’t play the part society desired of her. Her paranoid self-examination and inability to connect with other people eventually drove her over the edge of humanity when she was only 22 […]
The long hot summer of 1992, shortly before the break-up of Czechoslovakia. While reconstructing a cemetery, the workers chance upon a body with a nail stuck in the skull. The man was hurriedly and secretly buried seven years previously. The murder is too fresh and too cruel to be ignored. However, it would be better […]
Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa’s women’s correctional facilities. She has just given birth to her first child, and now she is entering a world populated only by women: inmates, nurses and wardens, women of all ages, wives and widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant women, […]