Six-year-old Amálka lives with her parents and grandparents under one roof in a small town in the early 1990s in Czechoslovakia. She is an innocent and playful girl who perceives the world with emotions and intuition. When her parents’ marriage gets into crisis, they try to hide it from her, but she gets caught in […]
Marika, a Hungarian widow dressmaker shelters a Jewish boy in her home on the Slovak-Hungarian border during the turbulent years of World War 2 and the Wartime Slovak State.
18-year-old Johana wants to leave her small hometown. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. However, her final year of schooling is more challenging than her classmates. She plays an irreplaceable role in her family – helping to take care of her younger sister, who has a disability. Despite all the […]
Prague 1967 – Tomáš (28) brings up his younger brother Pavel (16). He is not interested in politics himself and tries to keep his brother away from it too. Under unlikely circumstances, Tomáš is recruited as a technician for the pro-democracy Foreign Broadcasting Department of the Czechoslovak Radio, which is gaining more and more influence, […]
Domestic animal slaughter as a disappearing ritual, in the microcosm of which a person is revealed as he is.
The stories of five women from the village of Devičany near Banská Štiavnica. They decided to “redbrand”, to improve, to change the settings of their lives and gender status. They took an axe and cut a hole in the ice on the Veľká Vodárenská tajch and started to harden themselves. And that was the beginning […]
Diplodocus is a curious little dinosaur dreaming of a great adventure and finding friends. Unfortunately he lives in a boring prehistoric swamp. He would love to discover what is behind the muddy dam surrounding his home. But his overprotective parents won’t allow, as they have build the protective wall for a reason – they believe […]
Puberty hits 12-year-old Ben, and suddenly his weight becomes a problem for him and others. Bullied by kids, with divorced parents unsure how to help, even the school nurse is concerned. Despite his love for food and budding chef talent, Ben takes drastic action, opting for a diet. Perhaps it can change things and even […]
When a runaway prisoner’s taste for power wipes out his mission to lead his fellow inmates to freedom, their path to a much-desired liberation steers them to a new kind of oppression. Zenith uses dance language to illustrate the power dynamics that have shaped the political landscape in recent decades, not only in Europe but […]