A tribute to grandparents and an apartment on the top floor of a Bratislava apartment block overlooking the Danube and Austria takes the form of an intimate dialogue. Between generations, past and present, East and West. The apartment in which the filmmaker’s grandparents lived through totalitarian regime and its change until the near present time. […]
It’s the early 60’s. Three former hockey heroes of the entire Czechoslovak nation are dealing with the aftermath of a fabricated law suit by the communist party with the hockey team in 1950.One lost physical strength and health in a communist lager,the second was robbed of his beloved hockey and youth,the third one evaded the […]
ZIBAA (30), a successful Afghan filmmaker and head of the National Film Fund, recently got engaged to SAMIR (29), the love of her life. Her end-of-summer wedding plans are horribly destroyed when Taliban unexpectedly seizes Kabul, and Zibaa finds herself facing a life-changing decision. As a famous anti-Taliban activist and a governmental employee, Zibaa’s life […]
A burnt-out Martin discovers old maps and the mysterious Agnes in an inherited house. Following her footsteps, he searches for the secret of Wirbel’s exiled inhabitants and the rituals that have protected the country for centuries from the awakening of forces that could irrevocably damage it.
27-year-old Anna lives with her mother Hana in a small town near the Slovak-Hungarian border. Anna has dreams that will never come true as long as she stays there, living with her mother. Hana, as a woman who has experienced many disappointments during her life, tries to protect her daughter from the same mistakes she […]
Lilia, a successful businesswoman with poor eyesight, reluctantly returns to her Ukrainian hometown to collect her belongings. Unexpectedly, this journey sparks memories of her parents and childhood, leading to a miraculous restoration of her eyesight.
A story of Karel Jaroš, an emotionally arid man, whose mother suffers from Alzheimer disease. It is not love, but the sense of duty that stops him from sending his mother to a mental institution. On the other hand, this way he can finally connect with her. And not just with her but also with […]
In a devastated Slovak town poisoned by magnesite mining, six Roma children refuse to accept their harsh reality, finding refuge in imagination, friendship, and their dreams that become their only form of resistance.
In a desolate border zone of a totalitarian state, a priest-turned-smuggler guides a fallen professor and a hunted young outlaw toward freedom. Hunted by a sadistic captain and tormented by guilt, they face betrayal, violence, and the realization that sometimes it is far harder to cross the boundaries we have built deep within ourselves. The […]