Easter day. Somewhere in a mountain village. A kid and his father drive down the valley to take the Holy Light coming from Jerusalem to Romania every year. On their way back the kid gets lost. He tries to find his way home alone through the dark forests protecting the Light.
Ingrid, a single mother living with her daughter and grandmother in an eastern Slovak village where Roma face stigma, becomes a professional parent to a Roma girl to survive.
In a small Transylvanian village, the postman, the bartender, the chief of police, a few high school students and other locals play football for the 5th league team Vulturul Țaga. Despite their enthusiasm, they have not won a single match in a very long time. The film follows the team throughout one season – at […]
The year is 1980. Michal and Juraj are students at a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Fearing the dissolution of their school, the tutors are moulding the seminarians into a shape satisfactory to the ruling Communist Party. Each of the young students must decide if he will give in to the temptation and choose the […]
Tereza suggests they run away from home. They stage even rougher videos and pretend Marek kidnapped her. After Marek calls Tereza’s mother, there is no way back. They buy train tickets to go as far as possible and end up in Bucharest, in a dirty suburb apartment-block neighbourhood, stealing food. The halcyon free ride is […]
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 […]
The small village in the isolated Transylvanian valley has been sinking into toxic sludge for decades. As a result of ongoing copper mining, thousands of tonnes of waste flow into the valley every day. Near the tailings pond only old widows live there and one middle-aged woman Valerica. She ran away from her family and […]