After the Soviet invasion of Prague, a young female photographer strives to break free from the constraints of Czechoslovak normalization and embarks on a wild journey towards freedom, capturing her experiences on thousands of subjective photographs.
The Kafkaesque process of renovation of the Slovak National Gallery has been going on for over a decade and there is still no sign of its completion on the horizon. For all these years Alexandra, the managing director of the Gallery, has fought along her father, the architect appointed to the reconstruction, to bring to […]
The Brahmaputra, Karnali, and Colorado Rivers are fascinating for many river runners. Particularly, the Colorado River stands out as a unique stage where whitewater rapids unravel Earth’s ancient history. Within its wild water, it stirs up cherished memories of a dear friend, whose passion for discovering the mysteries of great rivers inspired many.
A hands-on and deeply personal work, Notes from Eremocene is an audiovisual postcard dispatched by filmmaker Viera Čákanyová into an ambivalent world to come. Drawing upon a fictional conversation with her future virtual clone, the film offers a window into a world in which the technological solutions mankind has devised for sustaining its existence have […]
Ľuboš has insight, he has his own opinion and he doesn’t trust the media, who seek only after profit and never write the truth. Ľuboš is one of the few who has kept his “common” sense. That is why he has to endure the fate of a man who has revealed secret facts about what […]
It has been 150 years since the beginning of organised mountain guiding in the High Tatras. The ancient tradition has remained in essence unchanged. Even today, mountain guides are part of the magical world of the Tatra peaks. They are still helping others to fulfil their dreams and desires. They enter the mountains like a […]
What can an independent artist in 21st century Eastern Europe do if he wants to live and create without compromise? The life of Lajos Kassak extends across many historical eras; he lived under left- and right-wing dictatorships, through wars and revolutions, even peace and democracy. And in each era he knew how to behave as […]
The film explores the representation of war in a territory of long-lasting peace. On the background of mass events, which primarily serve as a necessary reminder of a history, but look more like bizarre celebrations of war, we play with the viewer the imaginary Telephone Game, where the concept of war changes with variations across […]
The young anthropologist arrives with her family in the Svalbard archipelago in order to study how life changes in the polar regions. After the initial falling in love with her new home she soon finds out that it’s not “only“ the icebergs and permafrost what is vanishing in the High Arctic. Zdenka inevitably has to […]