A comedy about an altar boy from a small conservative Slovak village. Miško (12) faces a complicated problem. He wants to be just like his brother Lukáš (17) – big, strong, and reasonable. Yet he’s still small, naïve and secretly in love with his brother’s girlfriend, Linda (16). One day, when Miško tries to impress […]
The film is based on real events – in 2005 Viktor Kalivoda murdered 3 random strollers he chanced upon in the forests in Czechia. The case received much attention for its lack of motive. After his arrest, Kalivoda confessed, but did not reveal his motive. The film will closely observe one year in his life […]
To evoke and imagine the near future, World of Walls is set in an environment of extreme social divisions and escalating climate crisis. The story takes place in an unspecified country that is being destroyed by on-going environmental disasters, located in today’s South Africa. The rich are living inside strictly protected luxury estates with secure […]
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 […]