The Impossible Voyage is a special effects film depicting the life story of M. R. Štefánik. With only a slight exaggeration, we could call the film a documentary as made by Georges Méliès. It takes an unusual approach to an original narrative form, highlighted by a distinctive artistic style and animation. The film tells the […]
A summer comedy about Slovak emigrants in the Balkans.
The Holy Dormition Pochayiv Lavra is a mystical place. Here, three monks were freed from the trauma they had suffered in the past; this is where they find inner peace and a sense of purpose to life. Their stories are metaphors of transformation, enlightenment and spiritualisation against the backdrop of the raw Ukrainian reality. The […]
Miroslav Válek is such a very significant personality who, in the previous century, left such a mark on Slovak culture that not to come to terms with him would mean leaving his essential role without reflection. The film makes a responsible and objective contribution to this reflection. Válek’s “inner conflict” constitutes the basic starting point […]
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Eighteen years old Irena Brežná shortly after the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 unwillingly followed her parents to emigrate. She had to face not only inconceivable to her new culture, but also remorse that she did not fight for her homeland. That’s why she went to write about the dissident movement in Eastern Europe and […]
Made in Slovakia captures the tour of IMT Smile and the folk ensemble Lúčnica. The success of this tour also came as a pleasant surprise to the creators of the programme. They would like to mediate the atmosphere of the performance in the form of a documentary to those who were unable to attend the […]
Filthy is the coming-of-age story of seventeen-year old Lena. In love with a boy for the first time, Lena longs for freedom and adventure. Her magical world is instantly shattered when her teacher, whom all her classmates have a crush on, rapes her in her own home. Instead of sharing her trauma, Lena keeps it […]
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 7 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and resilience of other inmates, they manage to escape. While the inmates they left behind courageously stand their ground against the Nazi officers, […]