True story of the last woman to be executed in Czechoslovakia. Olga Hepnarova was a young, lonely lesbian outsider from a coldhearted family who couldn’t play the part society desired of her. Her paranoid self-examination and inability to connect with other people eventually drove her over the edge of humanity when she was only 22 […]
The long hot summer of 1992, shortly before the break-up of Czechoslovakia. While reconstructing a cemetery, the workers chance upon a body with a nail stuck in the skull. The man was hurriedly and secretly buried seven years previously. The murder is too fresh and too cruel to be ignored. However, it would be better […]
Murderous Tales are a special-effects animated feature. Three stories: Antonio Cacto, Lighthouse, Big Man and three ultra-short blackouts: Charge the Dragon. The episodes each use a different production technology and belong to a different genre, but they are related in both their form and their content. All the episodes are about double standards and the […]
A silent story about a man waiting for an important surgery. After he learns he’s facing the possibility of only having a few last months to live, he embarks on a journey without no destination and only a “deadline” – October 5.
An essayistic film of the stories and fates of the European Romani, tied to the countries they have inhabited and still inhabit, which reflects the hidden side of the great tragedy known as Porraimos. Without being seen through archive footage, this survived and interpreted experience becomes not only a historical testimony but also a declaration […]
The life and period of the drifter, prisoner, fencer, photographer, painter, pilgrim, action creator, performer, searcher for joy and freedom, Alex Mlynárčik in moving images, images, photographs, live plays and the controversies of the period he lived and lives in. The story of a century in which modern identity, culture and basic values of Slovakia […]
A documentary about Dežo Hoffmann, originally born in Slovakia, who went on to become a legendary photographer of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Marilyn Monroe and other stars. The creators of this documentary spoke to Hoffmann’s former collaborators and travelled across the world to map out his adventure-filled life. Hoffmann’s life oscillates between the European theatre […]
An adventure-filled trip along an unknown African river leads to the unique Suri tribe. In the course of the journey we get to know the people who chose to fight for their traditions and way of life. The film Suri is a reflection on their future, and on the crisis of the mass extinction of […]
Where is the Russian soul headed on board the battleship Aurora? Can the Nazi city of monuments, Nuremberg, be a children’s playground? Is the Berlin Wall capable of uniting? If we visit the museum of ancient art in Rome where the EU constitution was signed, will we rediscover the spirit of Europe? History as the […]