From sea flows through dark caverns to volcanic deserts. Lapilli is a personal reckoning that dives deep into the hard matter. Traversing through diverse rocky landscapes, director Paula Ďurinová deals with the sudden loss of her grandparents. An unexpected disappearance uncovers a new horizon. Strings of old autoharps now resonate in the gorge. Phases of […]
In this documentary portrait, Iva Janžurová – an icon of Czech film, television, and theatre – is seen through the sensitive eyes of her daughter.
Six-year-old Amálka lives with her parents and grandparents under one roof in a small town in the early 1990s in Czechoslovakia. She is an innocent and playful girl who perceives the world with emotions and intuition. When her parents’ marriage gets into crisis, they try to hide it from her, but she gets caught in […]
Architecture is the soul of the urban landscape, it remains for hundreds of years and it clearly reflects the time and its specifics. This documentary will take you beyond the facades of the key Czechoslovak architectural landmarks from the communist era. It’ll introduce you to the most important architects of that period. Despite the brute […]
Marika, a Hungarian widow dressmaker shelters a Jewish boy in her home on the Slovak-Hungarian border during the turbulent years of World War 2 and the Wartime Slovak State.
18-year-old Johana wants to leave her small hometown. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. However, her final year of schooling is more challenging than her classmates. She plays an irreplaceable role in her family – helping to take care of her younger sister, who has a disability. Despite all the […]
Prague 1967 – Tomáš (28) brings up his younger brother Pavel (16). He is not interested in politics himself and tries to keep his brother away from it too. Under unlikely circumstances, Tomáš is recruited as a technician for the pro-democracy Foreign Broadcasting Department of the Czechoslovak Radio, which is gaining more and more influence, […]
Domestic animal slaughter as a disappearing ritual, in the microcosm of which a person is revealed as he is.
The stories of five women from the village of Devičany near Banská Štiavnica. They decided to “redbrand”, to improve, to change the settings of their lives and gender status. They took an axe and cut a hole in the ice on the Veľká Vodárenská tajch and started to harden themselves. And that was the beginning […]