The film follows the creator’s personal journey in search of identity, roots, creative freedom, and close relationships. This intimate story expands into a broader social framework, exploring expectations and pressures, while blending archive, home movies, animation, and playful associative visuals.
Isn’t it strange that we know so few personal stories about something millions of people share? Inside is a short film offering an insight into the lives of women who have experienced abortion. We transform fragments of their testimonies into a poem that conveys their thoughts, emotions, or fears. To symbolize both women and reproductive organs, we […]
Slovakia has 1 200 environmental burdens, of which 260 are critical. A documentary film by three female directors about the three biggest ecological disasters in Slovakia. A film about a country disoriented in its values and overwhelmed by a dysfunctional bureaucracy, a country in love with short-term plans and false promises, a country incapable of […]
Katka was thirteen. Roman was forty. The summer camp Chachaland, once a place of joy for children, became a place of abuse. What followed were years of therapy, depression, and PTSD. As an adult, Katka found the strength to write a blog and take her abuser to court.The film is an intimate testimony to how […]
Between the nudity of the last century and the power of the present moment.
In 2024, a new political power in Slovakia triggers radical shifts to bring independent public media under control. Amidst deep uncertainty and growing censorship concerns, a strike committee forms within the institution. The camera witnesses hallway micro-worlds and the resistance of journalists who, overnight, are forced to defend their profession. This Quixotic struggle against the […]
A family drama about the relationship between an eccentric father, who believes in the impending end of the world, and his daughter, fleeing with her two girls from an abusive husband to start anew. Living on the forest’s edge, the Old man involves his granddaughters in his survival plans. When the girls leave into the […]
Dušan Hanák, a legend of Czechoslovak cinema, responds to the very questions he once asked the protagonists of his own films. This intimate documentary essay — composed of interview fragments, archival footage, and contemporary encounters — becomes a cinematic dialogue of the master with himself. A visually rich collage, the film is not only a […]
It is the year 1944. After ten years of unsuccessful attempts, the Golian family finally welcomes their long-awaited child. But this happens in the midst of the raging Second World War, only three weeks before the Slovak National Uprising breaks out — an uprising to be led by Ján Golian himself. In a country still […]