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, […]
A woman leaves her husband and two children without a word. She is impelled by an inexplicable force. She wants to be free. Nora leaves for Vienna where she meets a younger man but she has the impression that the environment, which is culturally close to her own country, does not provide her with sufficient […]
Summer is finally here! Jonas is excited to be spending the holidays with his grandpa Bernard. But with no wife and no job, grandpa is not in the best of moods. Jonas knows something needs to be done. This is the beginning of a turbulent summer story which ends in an extraordinary friendship.
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 7 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and resilience of other inmates, they manage to escape. While the inmates they left behind courageously stand their ground against the Nazi officers, […]
A retired civil engineer, Duszejko, lives a secluded life in a mountain village close to the border between Poland and the Czech Republic. She is charismatic and eccentric, a passionate astrologer and a strict vegetarian. One day her beloved dogs disappear. On a snowy winter’s night shortly afterwards, she discovers the dead body of her […]
The enchanting tale of Little, the daughter of the Sea King, who decides to take his three daughters and leave the polluted waters behind to live among people. In a shadowy fish shop in the migrant-crowded docklands, a great romance takes root… This modern take on H. Ch. Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” is a powerful […]
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A tribute to grandparents and an apartment on the top floor of a Bratislava apartment block overlooking the Danube and Austria takes the form of an intimate dialogue. Between generations, past and present, East and West. The apartment in which the filmmaker’s grandparents lived through totalitarian regime and its change until the near present time. […]
In October 1953, five friends constituting a small resistance group decide to leave communist Czechoslovakia and get to West Berlin. At the beginning of the month, they all cross the guarded border together, but their presence is soon detected in East Germany; unwittingly, they initiate the largest armed manhunt since WWII. Twenty thousand German Police […]