A sweet and bitter comedy about Czech and Slovak friends who meet in Prague to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. They have known each other for a long time and this meeting would be a traditional New Year’s Eve celebration, if a seemingly innocent idea hadn’t occurred: to place mobile phones on the […]
Eight chapters about why be wary of those who hand you a pen and tell you that all you’ve got to do is sign. And about how sudden love can muddle what is essentially comfortable life of criminals, and how far can go otherwise reasonable people when overcome by pride. Finally, about the truth that […]
For Vera, family has always come first. She lives with her husband Václav – an honest, unassuming public notary – in a small town in Czechoslovakia. They protect their marriage with all the power of their love. But what if a crisis were to come from outside? What if the world changed so dramatically that […]
The famous Soviet cinematographer Leonid Burlaka, who worked at the Odessa Film Studios, suddenly gets diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. At the same time Ihor, his grandson, a young Ukrainian cinematographer, accidentally stumbles across a heavily damaged photo archive of his grandpa’s dating from the Soviet 1960s. The Ukrainian cinematographer Ihor meets a young Soviet cinematographer […]
The highest waterfall in the world and its abseiling. What should one imagine? Surreal scenery, a tourist adrenaline attraction or a world wonder that an ordinary mortal cannot attain? And yet there is a unique group of friends, enthusiasts and fools who master the unattainable category almost perfectly. Their common challenge is to discover, attain […]
Slovakia is a hockey nation. Yet, the generation of the World Champions has retired and there is no one to take up the banner. The 2019 IIHF World Championship brought a new spark of hope. It was Košice City that was given a chance to stir the passions in the new generation of ice hockey […]
A unique documentary portrait of Meky Žbirka – the eternal gentleman and wonderful companion who loves the Beatles and who exudes a good mood. Thereby, his life is full of unexpected turns, twists and decisions which often meant that he had to give up everything he had until then.
Video Kings is a feature-length documentary with re-enactments, which portrays the import, copying and dubbing of movies from the west in socialist Czechoslovakia and marginally also in Poland and Hungary. In the times when it was impossible to officially obtain movies produced in the west, there were groups of people who smuggled in these movies, […]
An aged farmer moves to the urban city for the first time in his life. He befriends a paper delivery boy in the neighborhood and their connection changes the course of both their lives and the boy’s family.