Štefan Pongo is a Roma lorry driver. Fifteen years ago he emigrated with his family from the Czech Republic to the UK to protect them from racial discrimination. The children have graduated from universities and the family is doing well. Mission completed. But the echoes of hate carry over from the old country. When the […]
Leaving to Remain is a film with three protagonists: Ondrej Olah, Denisa Ganon and Peter Toták. They represent a generation of Roma children who emigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1990s and at the beginning of the new millennium. They were given chances in England that they were denied in their native lands – […]
A stylised portrait of an authentic Czech neo-Nazi, who hates his life but doesn’t know what to change. Corrosively absurd and starkly chilling in equal measures, this tragicomedy investigates the radical world-view of “decent, ordinary people.” And, just when it seems that its message can’t get any more urgent, the film culminates in a wholly […]
World renowned photographer, Yuri Dojc, returns to Slovakia, his home country which he left in 1968 following the Soviet invasion. He is on a journey of discovery of his roots and much much more. The encounters with people he photographs and places he visits lead him to an abandoned Jewish school where only the disintegrating […]