Just before World War I, the fifteen-year-old poverty-stricken Anne from a small Slovak town is sent to Prague to be a maid in a wealthy family. She meets Resi, the daughter of a noble family, who was born and raised to be an adornment and a trophy – of the house, of her family, of […]
Shift depicts the lives of people who have to travel back home after working hard on their so-called weekly tours through the fates of three characters – a truck driver, a care-worker in Austria and a group of manual workers. The film reflects their dreams and desires, but also the sacrifices they have to make […]
This film tells the story and history of a group of poets known as the Lonely Runners. But it is mainly about the great friendship between Ivan, Peter and Ivan. At the start of this road movie, Peter leaves Offenbach am Main, his current residence, for Bratislava to see Ivan and together they go to […]
The film is a reaction to the current wave of post-humanist thinking caused by the development of technology and artificial intelligence as well as the climate crisis. The human species is coming to recognise its insignificance and transience, and human identity has found itself in a crisis. FREM attempts to reflect this feeling and creates […]
Society is about to experience a paradigm shift. The people of Central Slovakia also feel an existential restlessness. A large number of UFO observations serve as proof that this area is coming to be the focus of interest of advanced civilisations. The protagonists are searching for the truth. They are not afraid to formulate bold […]
A stylised portrait of an authentic Czech neo-Nazi, who hates his life but doesn’t know what to change. Corrosively absurd and starkly chilling in equal measures, this tragicomedy investigates the radical world-view of “decent, ordinary people.” And, just when it seems that its message can’t get any more urgent, the film culminates in a wholly […]
In the middle of Europe, two nations coexist side by side, close to each other in many ways and yet worlds apart. The Czechs are dedicated atheists, while the Poles are born as baptized Catholics. Czechs shake their heads in disbelief at Polish piety, while Poles hold Czechs in contempt for living without God. A […]
Viktor Valerevich Mumikhotkak also known as “Mukha“, Yupik Eskimo from the hamlet New Chaplino (Chukotka, Russia), died tragically in 2012. In 2014, Alla Ukuma gave birth to her first son. Her mother told her: “Last night I saw Mukha in my dream. He had come back in your boy. Let us name your baby Viktor“. […]
Andy Warhol remains unmapped by filmmakers with regard to his origins and personal life. The story of the icon connected with the history of Czechoslovak emigration, a hard life and whose dreams subsequently come true in a country which provided him with the opportunity to achieve personal self-fulfilment and success despite being different. This personality, […]