Dávid (27) is a substitute English teacher at a Catholic high school he once attended with Maja, Hana and Bažo, his best friends to this day. Although he came out as gay a long time ago, he still tries to conform to society. His friends are his safety net, and Dávid assumes that whatever happens, […]
In a grim Slovak village, Jan lives in isolation, shunned for refusing to drink—the villagers’ only escape from despair. One evening, a mysterious stranger appears, embodying both temptation and hopelessness. As the visits continue, Jan’s grip on reality weakens. The story asks: Is it better to escape through illusion or face life’s painful truth?
Viki starts a new job at the department of material need of the welfare office and soon realizes how mentally demanding the job is. At her desk, people affected by poverty come and go. Through Viki, we observe how an inflexible system struggles to respond to their life situations. Viki increasingly finds herself in conflict […]
Anabela, a Roma girl, unexpectedly wins a regional race and becomes a media star. Journalist Eva and running coach Zoli want to help her and unknowingly begin to place their own hopes in her. The more they draw her into the white world, the more Anabela does not understand it. Growing expectations cause family relationships […]
Our blind quest for abundance and wealth leads humankind down the path to tragedy, allowing planet Earth to return to its ancient state of shallow seas and oceans, dominated by a new civilization of salamanders.
The Consequences of Truth is a biographical auteur-led documentary that tells the story of Alfred Wetzler, a Slovak Jewish hero who warned the world about the Nazi extermination machinery and helped to save almost 150 000 lives. Yet he was persecuted and erased from history by his own communist government after the war. The film […]
To evoke and imagine the near future, World of Walls is set in an environment of extreme social divisions and escalating climate crisis. The story takes place in an unspecified country that is being destroyed by on-going environmental disasters, located in today’s South Africa. The rich are living inside strictly protected luxury estates with secure […]
Fourteen-year-old Barbora lives with her father in the picturesque Slovak countryside. The love of her life is her horse Juno, with whom she competes in western riding tournaments. But Barbora’s naive, childlike view of the world begins to crumble when she discovers that her father, a police officer, is involved in agricultural corruption. She doesn’t […]
A portrait of contemporary youth on the search for identity, values and a place in modern society, against the backdrop of an emerging Czech and Slovak ballroom scene.