On faith, hope and sacrifice. He wanted to escape from the world into a monastery, but he had to flee in order to save his life and to understand how brutal political power distorts the character and, at the same time, offers a last chance to resist and to save a loved one.
Just before World War I, the fifteen-year-old poverty-stricken Anne from a small Slovak town is sent to Prague to be a maid in a wealthy family. She meets Resi, the daughter of a noble family, who was born and raised to be an adornment and a trophy – of the house, of her family, of […]
Shift depicts the lives of people who have to travel back home after working hard on their so-called weekly tours through the fates of three characters – a truck driver, a care-worker in Austria and a group of manual workers. The film reflects their dreams and desires, but also the sacrifices they have to make […]
This film tells the story and history of a group of poets known as the Lonely Runners. But it is mainly about the great friendship between Ivan, Peter and Ivan. At the start of this road movie, Peter leaves Offenbach am Main, his current residence, for Bratislava to see Ivan and together they go to […]
The film is a reaction to the current wave of post-humanist thinking caused by the development of technology and artificial intelligence as well as the climate crisis. The human species is coming to recognise its insignificance and transience, and human identity has found itself in a crisis. FREM attempts to reflect this feeling and creates […]
Society is about to experience a paradigm shift. The people of Central Slovakia also feel an existential restlessness. A large number of UFO observations serve as proof that this area is coming to be the focus of interest of advanced civilisations. The protagonists are searching for the truth. They are not afraid to formulate bold […]
A stylised portrait of an authentic Czech neo-Nazi, who hates his life but doesn’t know what to change. Corrosively absurd and starkly chilling in equal measures, this tragicomedy investigates the radical world-view of “decent, ordinary people.” And, just when it seems that its message can’t get any more urgent, the film culminates in a wholly […]
The first part of the Garden Store trilogy is a melodrama set in the 1940s during the German occupation. Three young women and two children are waiting for the return of their imprisoned husbands and fathers. Jiří, a family friend and doctor, selflessly helps this family community thrown together by the war. The Family Friend […]
Two Trabants, one Polish Fiat and an old Jawa motorcycle set out on a journey across Australia and the Pacific Islands. In addition to multiple dangers lurking in the unknown environments, the team faces a new challenge of having wheelchair users as one of its Trabant crews.