Isn’t it strange that we know so few personal stories about something millions of people share? Inside is a short film offering an insight into the lives of women who have experienced abortion. We transform fragments of their testimonies into a poem that conveys their thoughts, emotions, or fears. To symbolize both women and reproductive organs, we […]
Slovakia has 1 200 environmental burdens, of which 260 are critical. A documentary film by three female directors about the three biggest ecological disasters in Slovakia. A film about a country disoriented in its values and overwhelmed by a dysfunctional bureaucracy, a country in love with short-term plans and false promises, a country incapable of […]
Katka was thirteen. Roman was forty. The summer camp Chachaland, once a place of joy for children, became a place of abuse. What followed were years of therapy, depression, and PTSD. As an adult, Katka found the strength to write a blog and take her abuser to court.The film is an intimate testimony to how […]
Dušan Hanák, a legend of Czechoslovak cinema, responds to the very questions he once asked the protagonists of his own films. This intimate documentary essay — composed of interview fragments, archival footage, and contemporary encounters — becomes a cinematic dialogue of the master with himself. A visually rich collage, the film is not only a […]
Chris Brunet has lived on Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, his entire life – as did his father, and his father before him. For nearly two hundred years, the Brunet family called this strip of land in the Gulf of Mexico home. But the island is disappearing. In a historic first, the federal government is […]
Becoming Ema follows a young woman who defies her parents’ expectations and societal norms to ‘become someone’. Ema and her husband, Tomas, decide to step out of the hamster wheel of modern life, investing their savings in a rural plot of land to embrace a life close to nature and the transformative power of motherhood. […]
We Have to Survive is a cinematic odyssey across our one shared home—Earth—capturing the extraordinary ways people adapt, endure, and find hope as our planet transforms. Filmed across four countries and several continents, the film invites us into different “rooms” of our global home: the fragile Outer Banks of the USA, where the ocean slowly […]
A raw, self-made and deeply personal work, If Pigeons Turned to Gold cuts into addiction and intergenerational trauma, capturing several years in the lives of four family members. Pepa, the director, records on an iPhone and tries to understand why their beloved older brother and cousins live unhoused and experience substance addiction. Formally inventive and […]
Tourists lie carelessly on the beach while the island is caught in flames. In her short film Greetings from Rhodes, director Viera Čákanyová reveals our talent for ignoring crises with irony and a hint of kitsch. Realistic comments from holidaymakers and glossy advertisements from travel agencies complement this tragicomic scene and invite the audience to […]