Karol is a teenager like any other – young, athletic, on the cusp of life. Things change after he becomes an accidental witness to a murder. Driven by curiosity, he begins to follow the murderer to eventually discover “curious needs” of his own, the existence of which he had only just sensed so far, but […]
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 […]
The long hot summer of 1992, shortly before the break-up of Czechoslovakia. While reconstructing a cemetery, the workers chance upon a body with a nail stuck in the skull. The man was hurriedly and secretly buried seven years previously. The murder is too fresh and too cruel to be ignored. However, it would be better […]
The film Once There Was a Town… is a surreal tale of a radioactive sausage and a several-metres-high mountain of contaminated wool, which the director watches while riding an old, crumbling Ferris wheel in the centre of Pripyat – an abandoned town. It’s an animated documentary about immense human stupidity and the consequences of strange […]
A film about a little boy’s dreams that come true. KAYTEK becomes a wizard, he is able to enchant everything and everyone. Magic is a refuge for the boy who can not cope with the harsh reality. He discovers that his success and fame gained with magic never meet his most basic needs: to be […]
Last human stories from the glittering bottom of dying Aral Sea. Svetlana stares into the salt desert with her only eye. Gulshat runs an empty hotel. Captain records traces of the vanishing sea, and Sergei drives tourists across its bare, glittering seabed. The last people of Mo’ynoq who remember the original shore of drying Aral […]
The film is based on real events – in 2005 Viktor Kalivoda murdered 3 random strollers he chanced upon in the forests in Czechia. The case received much attention for its lack of motive. After his arrest, Kalivoda confessed, but did not reveal his motive. The film will closely observe one year in his life […]
ROSENTAAL is an exciting animated adventure designed especially for teenagers, set in a fantastical steampunk world inspired by Jules Verne and polar expeditions. Orphaned teenager Nab heads north with a mysterious cargo – a sarcophagus containing the mummy of Inuit chieftain Aak Mook. His odyssey takes him to the heart of the brutal society of […]
Summer is coming to the end, the fruit is growing ripe on the trees. Grandpa gives his grandson a kite. As the boy is tossed around in the air, Grandpa catches him. Then the leaves fall and Grandpa has grown weak. A strong autumn wind carries him off into the cloudy sky. Winter comes, then […]