Our film is a story of the American dream. A dream shared by many around the world, only a small fraction of whom manage to make it happen. Marie came to America hoping to give her life new meaning. The small town she came from, Mikulov, with its lazy, almost static atmosphere, was no challenge […]
Promise, I’ll Be Fine follows 15-year-old Enrique and his mother, Martina. Enrique hopes for her return home so they can be together, instead of being apart due to her job. Living with his grandmother in a village, Enrique obeys his mother’s requests in the hope that they’ll save enough money to reunite. When he’s not […]
For five years she was the most trusted president of crisis-plagued Slovakia navigating dirty politics with dignity. For five years, a film crew followed her closely, even in situations where other cameras were not allowed. Political choices, meetings with world leaders over global dilemmas, but also with ordinary citizens over everyday problems. An extraordinarily intimate […]
Documentary film about graduates of the Bratislava grammar school, whose ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on the day of the parliamentary elections, shortly before the announcement of their results. All students submitted their applications to foreign universities. The film follows five of them and through their opinions tries to clarify what led them to this decision. […]
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One phone call shakes Petra’s life from the ground up. Her husband’s fatal collapse causes Petra to become a widow from day to day. As she soon finds out, sadness and loneliness are not the only challenges she has to face.
A comedy documentary about the search for happiness. The Italian astrologist Lucciana can alter the destinies of people. On their birthdays they have to travel to whatever location on Earth has the ideal constellation of planets over it. They will be reborn on that day and so be able to change their nature. On the […]
Eva’s home is a small hill called Birdhill on the outskirts of Bratislava. During her childhood, it was still covered with historic vineyards of Maria Theresa and forest; today’s reality is cranes and excavators. In her film, she gets to know its current inhabitants and discovers that each of them lives and dreams a slightly […]
In the 1990s post-communist Slovakia, former woods worker Miki takes his chances to start doing business at a local level and climb up the ladder to become the biggest mafia boss in the country.