Once it arrives, the mountains are no longer peaceful and quiet. Animals look scared, people act differently. The halny wind strikes the Podhalie Region a few times a year. Even before its arrival, there is an increase in the number of heart attacks, acts of violence, and attempted suicides. The tension continues for several days. […]
The story begins at a police station with the interrogation of Mára, a teenager who is accused of stealing a car and driving it across the country. The boy will not reveal who he is, where he is from, or whether the car, registered at the other end of the country, has been stolen or […]
Matúš is a talented musician who gave up his successfully developing career when his adoptive mother fell ill. After her death, he’s living with his stepbrother Dávid and together they go through life, each in their own way. While Dávid accepts whatever life brings to him, Matúš feels frustrated by his failed ambitions. On his […]
The second part of the Garden Store trilogy takes place against the backdrop of revolutionary events in 1947-1953. Otto Bock, the owner of the stylish hairdresser’s salon Valentino in downtown Prague and his family, which he employs, are the main characters. The company is his life’s purpose and he returns after the hardships of war […]
The third part of the Garden Store trilogy takes place at the end of the 1950s. It is a story of love, this time love between lovers. It tells the story of the silent war between parents and their children marked by the war and the communist coup. Suitor outlines, from a tragicomic distance, the […]
Documentary about the Occupation, as seen through the eyes of the occupiers. Five countries from the Warsaw Pact occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968. Fifty years later, five directors from these five countries shoot five short films about the invasion from the perspective of the people who played the part of the occupiers.
The first part of the Garden Store trilogy is a melodrama set in the 1940s during the German occupation. Three young women and two children are waiting for the return of their imprisoned husbands and fathers. Jiří, a family friend and doctor, selflessly helps this family community thrown together by the war. The Family Friend […]
In the middle of Europe, two nations coexist side by side, close to each other in many ways and yet worlds apart. The Czechs are dedicated atheists, while the Poles are born as baptized Catholics. Czechs shake their heads in disbelief at Polish piety, while Poles hold Czechs in contempt for living without God. A […]
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 […]