A seemingly boring vacation with two old ladies turns into a life-changing experience for twelve-year-old Sofia as she kisses a boy, reunites with her estranged family and faces up to mortality on an idyllic island in the Mediterranean.
Inspired by the work with the documentary “Olimpiade”, this feature film tells the life-story of Josef Myslivecek, friend and teacher of Mozart. Myslivecek was known as “Il Boemo”. He was a composer who sacrificed everything in order to be free, beloved and famous. Yet he died alone, sick and forgotten.
A married couple from Slovakia spends every minute of their lives raising their son to one day become a successful athlete and a “quality human being”.
Situational portrait of the universe of the leader of the historically most popular “Czechoslovak” band who is a Christian Buddhist believing in communism. Their film meeting takes place in unexpected locations and open situations which make constellations of Ráž’s life visible: cocoa and whisky, music and family, dictatorship and meditation o moment and eternity, moment […]
The director focuses on the dramatic atmosphere of the unenviable presence and uncertain future of the refugees through direct immersion into emotionally tense events. Without hijacking events with commentary or standing in the position of a distant witness, the film allows the viewer to become a direct participant in the path to freedom through in-your-face […]
The story of a life of struggle in a region left behind by the country’s transition to market economy. The main protagonist is a divorced yet determined and dogged, fighting-against-the-odds quinquagenarian ex-miner Jaroslav whose health has thwarted his lifelong dream to become a racing driver. A new relationship with his childhood love Jitka brings frustrated […]
Others perceived R. as a happy woman. Born and raised in the Czech Republic, R. married Ivan, a Slovak psychiatrist. The young couple settled in Sweden, and had two children, and it appeared that R.’s life would follow a predictable path. R. was happy, but felt an inner emptiness. As a distraction from daily life, […]
A film inspired by Joseph Conrad‘s unique and for many hard-to-understand novel Heart of Darkness, tells the story in two different levels: An adventurous journey and the real picture of the journey inside one’s soul and its darkness. To be able to peek inside the soul, we must get close to the dark parts of […]
In 2017, I took part in the Polish Antarctic Expedition at the Henryk Arctowski Station. I shot a film with AI as the main character. During my stay I held several discussions with an artificial neural network and made a spontaneous video diary capturing the daily struggles with my own body and mind in these […]