Count Frank Kostka, his wife Vivien and their daughter Marie live in their family castle Kostka. Housekeeper Tichá, maintenance man Lebeau and warden Josef help them keep the castle somehow up. Even so, the castle is deteriorating, Frank does not have enough money either for repairs or for salaries. It seems that the request of […]
Our main hero was born as unwanted and rejected by his creator. However, he heroically seeks his place in a society that ruthlessly rejects him because of his appearance. Despite the adversity of fate, he doesn’t lose hope and strives to see only the good in all beings. Quickly, though, he pays the price for […]
When a fifteen-year-old boy from a broken home gets sucked into a burglary that goes terribly wrong, he is brutally forced to reconsider just whom he can really trust before it is too late.
Ales gets too involved and puts pressure on his colleagues. Therefore, to temper his energy, CEO promotes him and makes him a team leader in the call center department – the corporation’s ungrateful, where the unofficial leader is the grumpy Michal. They all go to the company team building, where Ales joins his new colleagues […]
Last minute! Think of that holiday! Wonderful clean beaches! Golden sand, great weather and turquoise blue sea! That´s the image of your dream holiday! But… Every night beaches are littered with pieces of clothing, fragments of shipwrecks, and life jackets… Every night hundreds of migrants, people born in a “worse world”, people feeling war or […]
Large fields surround a small plot of land where Josef runs his sustainable farm. He is a city guy who chose an alternative lifestyle also for his family, forcing them to live in the countryside stripped of comfort and computers. His wife Eva has been treated for cancer and his teenage daughter Žofka rebels against […]
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 […]