Existential double portrait of the world-famous erotic photographer Vlastimil Kula and his daughter, film editor Blanka. Does their freedom end where the freedom of the other begins? In a studio full of lianas, waterfalls, steampunk inventions and naked bodies, they search for the essence of their own lives and family relationships.
The Kafkaesque process of renovation of the Slovak National Gallery has been going on for over a decade and there is still no sign of its completion on the horizon. For all these years Alexandra, the managing director of the Gallery, has fought along her father, the architect appointed to the reconstruction, to bring to […]
The documentary The Painter Who Created a Photographer explores the artistic and life partnership of painter Ester Šimerová and photographer Martin Martinček. It focuses on the moment when a former lawyer, shaped by personal and political trauma, becomes a photographer and develops his own artistic language. Through the dialogue of painting and photography, archival material […]
In a small provincial town preparing its annual celebrations, intertwined stories of love, power and death unfold. Lara, an ambitious cultural centre director, enters a destructive triangle with a writer and a newspaper editor, where literature is written on the body itself. Parallel to this, a corrupt prosecutor’s false cancer diagnosis leads to a disturbing […]
Seventeen-year-old Jano grows up in a mountain valley surrounded by animals, horses, and his father’s carpentry workshop. He dreams of becoming a veterinarian, but at home and at school he faces constant misunderstanding. When a man from both parents’ past returns, the fragile balance of the family is shaken, confronting Jano with questions he is […]
Forensic psychologist Martin Lang arrives with his wife at a mountain spa. Far from civilization, they want to relax and save their relationship. However, the routine of their days is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious package. The sender is his colleague, who needs his help in a case known as the “death ride.” […]
A short animation film about a boy and a gift of a teddy bear that he was not allowed to unwrap.
While being on the excursion in local slaughterhouse, Edgar meets newborn calf which will dramatically change his ordinary life. When Edgar finds out, that the calf is meant to become a schnitzel one day, he will decide to take it home, to his little apartment. Since then, everything turns upside down…quite literally.
A surreal reflection of death and life through the poetic lenses on the rarely captured moment of the funeral of a deceased grandmother in the vanishing world of the Ruthenian community in the hills of the Eastern Slovakia.