Slovakia is a country of drinking water. We have no oil, no gold, no gems, but we do have huge water resources. Corn Island is our greatest wealth. Many people from Bratislava decided to buy or build a house there, one of the reasons being the high-quality water with its own well. However, new houses […]
The small village in the isolated Transylvanian valley has been sinking into toxic sludge for decades. As a result of ongoing copper mining, thousands of tonnes of waste flow into the valley every day. Near the tailings pond only old widows live there and one middle-aged woman Valerica. She ran away from her family and […]
Katka was thirteen. Roman was forty. The summer camp Chachaland, once a place of joy for children, became a place of abuse. What followed were years of therapy, depression, and PTSD. As an adult, Katka found the strength to write a blog and take her abuser to court.The film is an intimate testimony to how […]
A story of an immigrant family having to decide its future during a single night in their apartment. When young Sydu comes home, he confesses to his parents that he and his friends did something bad and hurt someone. As the night continues Sydu´s family slowly uncovering the extent of his guilt.
Fourteen-year-old Barbora lives with her father in the picturesque Slovak countryside. The love of her life is her horse Juno, with whom she competes in western riding tournaments. But Barbora’s naive, childlike view of the world begins to crumble when she discovers that her father, a police officer, is involved in agricultural corruption. She doesn’t […]
The story of the Košice Peace Marathon is part of the bigger history of a small town in Central Europe, Košice. It is a tale of a marathon, and marathon runners, about ordinary people who run, run for pleasure, run for freedom, run to escape a disaster. People who run to cross the space and […]
If people migrate because they want to explore the world, broaden their horizons, it is obviously great that they have the opportunity to go. However, there are people, mainly from eastern bloc countries, living in poorer conditions, who feel that leaving for work abroad is their only chance to make their family survive, even though […]
On the day of her ninth birthday, Lucia disappears without a trace. Her unexpected return to her mother and the village community a year later is believed to be a God’s miracle. However, a series of unexplained incidents raises questions about the nature of Lucia’s disappearence and her strange behavior. Slowly, Lucia’s mother, Hana, becomes […]
A portrait of contemporary youth on the search for identity, values and a place in modern society, against the backdrop of an emerging Czech and Slovak ballroom scene.