Varnsdorf, a town in the north of the Czech Republic, where all the factories were closed down following the Velvet Revolution, and replaced with non-stop gambling houses, casinos and hookers. Kamila, a twenty-year-old girl who is fed up with life in a dead-end town works in TITANIC, one of the non-stop places with slot machines […]
Skate blades cut into the surface of the ice. Shadows of hockey players swirl through the frozen spray, leaving deep scratches in the ice. David (16), a talented goalie, is placed in a new hockey team. He is determined to do everything he can to succeed. Too bad that the other goalie, Miky (16), is […]
Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, away from his troubled family life in Tehran, and instead immerses himself in researching his father’s past as a communist expatriate in former Czechoslovakia. On visiting the flat where his father used to live fifty years previously, he’s stopped by the police investigating a recent accident.
When Niki finds out that her father is in town after being released from prison, she disobeys her grandmother’s fierce objections and meets him in secret. Faced with his 12-year-old daughter, Tibor is forced to confront his role as a father and finally take responsibility. After 7 years without contact, the father and daughter get […]
The father falls into a coma and the family is left in a terminal life situation. The mother and son silently concentrate all their powers. They meekly accept the diagnosis but resist the verdict. Yet they reject an open conflict because the life thread is so taut that conflict could inadvertently break it.
A fairy tale set in the mining environment of the Slovak mountains. The kingdom is alive and profiting from the salt cave; however, a huge she-wolf has been guarding the entrance to the cave since one of the salt-miners’ daughters disappeared. The people suffer from a lack of salt. Courageous but quarrelling brothers – princes […]
The law represents a fixed order of social relations. When this order is questioned, society finds itself immersed in uncertainty, in a fog. “Fog” is also the code name of the operation investigating the corruption of judges exposed in the Threema application found in the mobile phone of the infamous “entrepreneur” Marián Kočner. The documentary […]
The director of this documentary film is interviewing other documentary film makers from his current, previous and following generation. Gradually, he is trying to reveal their passion for this film making, technical and economic background, to map ethical boundaries or to deal with the future of the documentary film. In approximately 90 minutes, his attempt […]
A country somewhere at the foot of mountains is controlled by high-ranking criminals, people connected to politics, mafia, the police, courts. An addicted teenager vanishes from the resocialisation centre and no one misses her. She wants to tell the police about forced sex and drugs. She seeks out a journalist, he starts to disentangle the […]