Once upon a time, in the middle of Europe, the Prime Minister said: “This murder never happened!” The story which “never happened” takes us into the unresolved case of a political murder, a psychological journey of three young friends who got involved in the high political power game of the 1990s, resulting in the portrait […]
A film made up of archive footage from the 1968 occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies, told from the perspective of the occupier – the unknown soldier of the title of the film. The director’s great-uncle was one of the soldiers in the Soviet occupying army that invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. He couldn’t […]
It is 1937 and a young pregnant doctor Helena arrives with her husband, the director of the factory, in Svit. They want to build a utopian world in the developing Baťa-type town. However, the discovery of a dead body of a newborn baby shatters her ideas about her dream future. Her innate empathy, which is […]
Gorazd Šuster lets the woman of his dreams, Lucia Rener, fly off on her own to what should have been their engagement holiday. Why? Because of a call from ex-classmate Svätopluk telling him that their friend Cyril has been granted leave from the psychiatric clinic. Cyril has spent a decade trying to commit suicide. Why? […]
Roman is a top-level cyclist recovering from an injury through hard work and a strict regimen. To improve his performance, he even sleeps in an oxygen tent installed in his bedroom. That is a bitter pill for his wife, Šarlota, whose long-time wish is to conceive a child. And so, they both exude determination, lose […]
Film about T. G. Masaryk and Karel Čapek, two extraordinary men, the best that ever lived in our country; about the fact that the First Czechoslovak Republic, which they symbolised, had a deep content and meaning in terms of its underlying concepts. But also about the fact that emotions can sometimes be stronger than an […]
The story begins at a police station with the interrogation of Mára, a teenager who is accused of stealing a car and driving it across the country. The boy will not reveal who he is, where he is from, or whether the car, registered at the other end of the country, has been stolen or […]
Lines is a visual essay, a tangle of stories and observations set in the exemplary post-socialist city of Bratislava; a place experiencing dynamic transformation.
Peter Kalmus is a unique performance artist, well-known in Slovakia thanks to his political activism. Frustrated with a society that allows communist and fascist supporters to openly express their admiration for totalitarian murderers, without any repercussions, Peter Kalmus exposes uncomfortable truths with his activist art. He strikes out against the busts and memorials celebrating representatives […]