In management, action items are tasks that must be performed to resolve an issue. But what if the issue is not individual, but systemic? In her second feature documentary, director Paula Ďurinová explores how personal experience of burnout shifts into collective sharing and awakening. Set in Berlin, Action Item transforms anxiety into resistance, reframing struggles […]
From sea flows through dark caverns to volcanic deserts. Lapilli is a personal reckoning that dives deep into the hard matter. Traversing through diverse rocky landscapes, director Paula Ďurinová deals with the sudden loss of her grandparents. An unexpected disappearance uncovers a new horizon. Strings of old autoharps now resonate in the gorge. Phases of […]
In the wild steppes of southern Ukraine, a young nature researcher named Yura is looking for an endangered species of groundhog but instead witnesses a crime. Eager to expose the truth, Yura takes his photo evidence to the local newspaper’s editorial office. However, he quickly realizes that nobody there cares about pursuing justice. While a […]
Large fields surround a small plot of land where Josef runs his sustainable farm. He is a city guy who chose an alternative lifestyle also for his family, forcing them to live in the countryside stripped of comfort and computers. His wife Eva has been treated for cancer and his teenage daughter Žofka rebels against […]
Set amidst stunning Ukrainian winter landscapes and emerging feelings of alienation between people in a post-Soviet society, Stepne is the story of Anatoliy, a man who comes back home to take care of his dying mother. A meeting with his brother and a woman he loves makes him reflect on the choices he made along […]
The adventurous story of a geek, a young city boy Martin, who has to overcome himself and stay two weeks in the summer camp without his city comforts and any technology. Here he will be challenged to help the forest creatures to save their forest from being destroyed by greedy developers.
Fourteen-year-old Darek lives with his father and younger sister in a small village on the Czech side of the Czech-German-Polish border. After his mother, with whom he had a very gentle relationship, dies, his life changes. His father loses his job and becomes addicted to booze. That is why the plan of his father’s old […]
Irina is a single mother, a Ukrainian living in a small Czech town. One night, her teenage son Igor claims that he was assaulted by three young Roma. Irina demands justice and is met with great solidarity by her new society. Until she spots inconsistencies in her son’s account.
Janette is terminally ill and wants to die in a dignified way but this is not permitted under British law. She gets in touch with Dr. Erika in Switzerland, who is willing to help her. Muscular dystrophy, the illness that Janette suffers from, has affected her family for generations. Janette’s mother was wheelchair-bound for decades, […]