RAW reveals intimate fragments of three women’s stories whose lives are shaped by surrogacy. By merging the surrogate mother’s emotions, the surrogate child’s memories, and the intended mother’s testimony into a poetic, visual contemplation, the film uncovers the archaeology of the female soul and body. By allowing us to feel what these women feel, RAW […]
Eighteen-year-old Ksenia lives in a Russian border town after the occupation of her Ukrainian hometown, while her 9 year-old brother Serhii has been adopted by a Russian family on the other side of the country. Determined to return to Ukraine, she travels across Russia to bring him back. But when they finally meet, she discovers […]
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 […]
In 1941, Leo Kowal, a Slovak Nazi officer, was sent to a concentration camp for having sex with a male colleague. Through personal letters, Gestapo interrogations, digital reimaginations, and a parodic adaptation of an SS manual on persecuting gay men, a young gay filmmaker retraces Kowal’s story. Blending research with intimate reflection, he asks what […]
The Thespian is a film about an actor who has been performing in the theatre since the age of six and continues to act today at eighty-four – a lifetime spent playing roles of all kinds, roles he had to learn to love in order to portray them truthfully. He has always been, and remains, […]
In the wild steppes of southern Ukraine, a young nature researcher named Yura is looking for an endangered species of groundhog but instead witnesses a crime. Eager to expose the truth, Yura takes his photo evidence to the local newspaper’s editorial office. However, he quickly realizes that nobody there cares about pursuing justice. While a […]
After the Soviet invasion of Prague, a young female photographer strives to break free from the constraints of Czechoslovak normalization and embarks on a wild journey towards freedom, capturing her experiences on thousands of subjective photographs.
Space Garbage Men is an animated, adventure science fiction for kids. The main characters of the film are space garbage men Buchtík and Cat, who every day, together with other garbage men, collect containers of garbage, which are sent to the orbit of the planet Earth by Earthlings and then thrown into the nearest black […]