In one of Slovakia’s largest Roma settlements, everyday survival meets unexpected dreams. Dezider and Lavor fight to bring order into chaos, Broskva refuses tradition and aims to become a car mechanic, and young runner Dany chases freedom with every step. City of Dreams reveals raw hardship, disarming humor and surprising hope in a place the […]
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A feature-length docudrama about talent, resilience, and the will to start over – in a world that sees difference before it sees the person.
A comedy documentary about the search for happiness. The Italian astrologist Lucciana can alter the destinies of people. On their birthdays they have to travel to whatever location on Earth has the ideal constellation of planets over it. They will be reborn on that day and so be able to change their nature. On the […]
Eva’s home is a small hill called Birdhill on the outskirts of Bratislava. During her childhood, it was still covered with historic vineyards of Maria Theresa and forest; today’s reality is cranes and excavators. In her film, she gets to know its current inhabitants and discovers that each of them lives and dreams a slightly […]
18-year-old Johana wants to leave her small hometown. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. However, her final year of schooling is more challenging than her classmates. She plays an irreplaceable role in her family – helping to take care of her younger sister, who has a disability. Despite all the […]
The stories of five women from the village of Devičany near Banská Štiavnica. They decided to “redbrand”, to improve, to change the settings of their lives and gender status. They took an axe and cut a hole in the ice on the Veľká Vodárenská tajch and started to harden themselves. And that was the beginning […]
The Limits of Europe follows the lives of people on the periphery of public interest. In a world of great social inequalities, they have left to earn money for their families, they labour to the point of exhaustion and can see no bright tomorrows. Their employers know that they are capable of doing practically anything […]
1941: Leo Kowal had sex. So he was sent to a concentration camp. He slept with a man – his colleague from the Slovak Nazi party. In a speculative narrative, a gay director enters into a paradoxical, one-sided dialogue with Leo, reimagining an identity split between fascist conviction and queer desire, reduced to Gestapo files […]