When Herra, a Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join. A grandfather who is a feminist, an adopted young boy who astounds with his intellect, and Freshta who will do anything […]
The Sound Is Innocent is a playful and poetic journey through the history and the present of electronic sound. The music is a game, a playground. And for creating electronic music the main tool and toy is an instrument, a device, a machine… Our guide in this musical playground is Johana, music composer and director […]
This full-length documentary depicts the most important milestones and mistakes entailed in building the Bata Empire. There are three main narrative levels in the film: the “biographical” one, the depiction of modern global capitalism (Bata being one of the pioneers), combined with the memories of Czech and Slovak “Batamen” across the whole world. The film […]
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, […]
After her husband’s death, Hana continues to reside in the family villa, by herself. Her two sons visit her with their families, but these visits frequently end in quarrels. When Hana meets Broňa, a hardy fellow, inured to winter swimming, a new world opens up before her. Broňa’s team-mates absorb her into their team and […]
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 […]
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In a devastated Slovak town poisoned by magnesite mining, six Roma children refuse to accept their harsh reality, finding refuge in imagination, friendship, and their dreams that become their only form of resistance.
Anna, a respected doctor, falls for a quiet young colleague. But his charm masks control and manipulation. As the relationship turns abusive, she must face her past and find the strength to escape a reality more dangerous than she ever imagined.