Juraj Jakubisko´s first feature film after a forced nine-year-long break is a story about an unconventional man, Jozef Matúš. He arrives to a small village in eastern Slovakia to settle down and start a family. He is ready to subordinate everything to his goal. It all starts with stealing building material and ends with him disregarding those close to him to a point where his ambitions are turning against him. Build a House, Plant a Tree is a viewer-friendly film with a plot resembling a western, including several attractive action sequences. 

Majka "Chatterbox" is a girl entering adolescence. She was born with a minor disability. While her mother keeps scolding her for the way she walks, her classmates mock her and call her a "duck". Along an innocent first love affair and a secret friendship, she receives little understanding from her parents and lots of malice from her schoolmates. Majka finds refuge with her grandmother and in her own fantasy world. Director Peter Solan made a sensitive portrait of a twelve-year-old schoolgirl. The eloquent film language talks to child and adult audiences alike. 

Two former boxers meet in the ring again after years for a re-run of an old match. The old loser currently works as a factory executive and he is unwilling to reconcile with his old defeat. He challenges the old winner, whose job in a garage puts him on the opposite end of the career leader. The match is a battle fought between two men who stand for two different attitudes to life. The confrontation results in the revelation that the winner is not always the one whose arm is raised by the referee after the last round. 

An amiable picture about entering adulthood, great dreams, and the first - forbidden - love of a white postman, Jakub, and a pretty Gypsy girl, Jolanka. This is a poetic story, a mosaic of the playful world springing from the wild imagination of the village postman and its clash with the pragmatic mundane reality that finally beats the rosy dreams of the young protagonists. Director Dušan Hanák and screenwriter Dušan Dušek´s most popular film has been cherished by critics as well as wide audiences at home and abroad. 

An epic saga of the Habdža family of vineyard keepers set in western Slovakian countryside at the beginning of the 20th century. Director Andrej Lettrich´s novel adaptation talks of plotting, forbidden love, family discord, and struggle for heritage and power. The story is engaging thanks to the impressive performances of popular actors, dramatic situations, and sensitive music. Red Wine is not so much inventive in terms of auteurship as it is a work of excellent craftsmanship. The resulting picture is a costume production neatly adapted to the character of Slovak rural life in the past. 

Martin Ťapák´s Pacho, the Brigand of Hybe was based on the story written by Peter Jaroš as a humorous resemblance of the Slovak legendary hero Juro Jánošík spiced up with numerous cliches of official Slovak folklore. The resulting picture is one of the very few, if not the only truly well-done Slovak film parody. Jozef kroner´s unforgettable performance in the lead role, supported by the witty dialogues written by classic Slovak comedians Milan Lasica and Július Satinský made the film into a unique phenomenon of Slovak cinematographic tradition. 

The second, and unfortunately, the last feature film made by a unique talent among Slovak filmmakers, Elo Havetta, is one of the most original pictures of Slovak cinematography. The film was conceived as a paraphrase of Vincent Šikula´s prose, the tragicomic episodes of which screenwriter Lubor Dohnal and Havetta composed into a dramatic story. The main characters are veterans coming home from the First World War. And while they feel a need to find a home and settle down, they are also driven by a passion for a vagrant´s free life. 

This is a tragicomic story about boys who even in times of war remember how to play soldiers, dream of heroic deeds, spy on girls, show off in front of friends, and make up fantastic adventures. With the same naive childishness they face grim events of war and everyday village life. Despite the impact of early normalization introduced by the regime, director Štefan Uher succeeded in turning Milan Ferko and Elo Havetta´s screenplay into a vivid picture on a theme so often romanticized and distorted by ideology. 

A sequel to the Copper Tower, Eagle Feather continued the success of its predecessor in many ways. Two inseparable friends, Oldie and Valer, return from prison to the Stratená Valley to start a new life - that of respectable citizens. This decision puts them face to face with new challenges. Manual work does not provide quite as much thrill as smuggling goods over the border did in good old times. With much distrust they are watched by the local customs officer who is convinced that they will take up their illegal hobby sooner or later again. As it turns out, he was not far from the truth.