The film focuses on the events surrounding the honoris causa doctorate awarded to Alexander Dubček by the University of Bologna in 1988. Dubček travelled to Italy to be present in person at the ceremony. The main protagonists are the State Security agents who represent the machinery driven by the highest political positions, having kept Dubček […]
In a small Transylvanian village, the postman, the bartender, the chief of police, a few high school students and other locals play football for the 5th league team Vulturul Țaga. Despite their enthusiasm, they have not won a single match in a very long time. The film follows the team throughout one season – at […]
Four friends are heading into the Amazonian jungle for a challenging journey. They paddle along wild rivers and hike through deep forests to become a part of the indigenous Hodi tribe. Living side by side with the indigenous people in their natural way of life and spending many days in their village shows them how […]
After years of creative (non) hiatus, the well-known Slovak documentary filmmaker Marek Kuboš has completed his new film. It appears, as one might expect, to be a documentary. At first glance, that is. This cinematic hybrid is Kuboš’s unconventional attempt at self-reflection – as an artist, a son, as well as an ordinary person. Using […]
Matúš is a talented musician who gave up his successfully developing career when his adoptive mother fell ill. After her death, he’s living with his stepbrother Dávid and together they go through life, each in their own way. While Dávid accepts whatever life brings to him, Matúš feels frustrated by his failed ambitions. On his […]
Once upon a time, in the middle of Europe, the Prime Minister said: “This murder never happened!” The story which “never happened” takes us into the unresolved case of a political murder, a psychological journey of three young friends who got involved in the high political power game of the 1990s, resulting in the portrait […]
A film made up of archive footage from the 1968 occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies, told from the perspective of the occupier – the unknown soldier of the title of the film. The director’s great-uncle was one of the soldiers in the Soviet occupying army that invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. He couldn’t […]
It is 1937 and a young pregnant doctor Helena arrives with her husband, the director of the factory, in Svit. They want to build a utopian world in the developing Baťa-type town. However, the discovery of a dead body of a newborn baby shatters her ideas about her dream future. Her innate empathy, which is […]
Gorazd Šuster lets the woman of his dreams, Lucia Rener, fly off on her own to what should have been their engagement holiday. Why? Because of a call from ex-classmate Svätopluk telling him that their friend Cyril has been granted leave from the psychiatric clinic. Cyril has spent a decade trying to commit suicide. Why? […]