The Odyssey of Czechoslovak aviators fighting across war-torn Europe. A unique poetic form of archive storytelling with never-before-seen footage following two Czechoslovak aviators, František Fajtl and Filip Jánský, who escaped to fight the Nazis. Using only archive footage, it allows the audience to experience both the momentous historical events and daily wartime life through the […]
The story of the friendship between Silvester Krčméry and Vladimír Jukl, who were known as the “generals of the secret church”. They founded “hobby groups”, small islands of freedom where people could think and believe freely during totalitarianism. They were already critical of The First Slovak Republic. After the advent of communism, they were persecuted […]
Romy is a brave little girl. She has a budgie called Mimi and Mimi got lost. Romy’s determination to find her budgie brings Romy out into the ancient woods where she meets all sorts of every day characters, each with their own story. She’ll not only make new friends along the way, but mainly she […]
Five short stories about love and relationships set on a park bench.
A hands-on and deeply personal work, Notes from Eremocene is an audiovisual postcard dispatched by filmmaker Viera Čákanyová into an ambivalent world to come. Drawing upon a fictional conversation with her future virtual clone, the film offers a window into a world in which the technological solutions mankind has devised for sustaining its existence have […]
The story of Professor Emil Skamene, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P. (C), F.A.C.P., F.R.S.C., O.Q., one of the world’s most acclaimed immunologists and geneticists, physician, teacher, and researcher, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize. His contribution to genetics has had a significant impact on the world’s history. However, he had not known his own identity for […]
A boy who has nothing and a girl who seems to have everything embark on an adventure following fake Santa in the middle of the night. That night all of their Christmas wishes come true, but not quite the way they’ve each expected.
When a family business finds out somebody has been embezzling large sums of money, they are mostly unprepared to face the new reality. Ivo Rona, a long-time CEO of the successful Aron company, navigates this tricky situation that gets worse with the involvement of his children and that is likely the result of his past […]
Otto Hille, a man from a Czech-German family, prepares an expedition for old and seriously ill Leopold Švarc, understood to be a cleansing experience to make amends for deeds long past. Švarc is accompanied by the loyal, autistic servant Mišel, his cook Jan and doctor Ignác. Otto takes on board insolvent painter Henry. The group […]