Matúš is a talented musician who gave up his successfully developing career when his adoptive mother fell ill. After her death, he’s living with his stepbrother Dávid and together they go through life, each in their own way. While Dávid accepts whatever life brings to him, Matúš feels frustrated by his failed ambitions. On his […]
It is 1937 and a young pregnant doctor Helena arrives with her husband, the director of the factory, in Svit. They want to build a utopian world in the developing Baťa-type town. However, the discovery of a dead body of a newborn baby shatters her ideas about her dream future. Her innate empathy, which is […]
2123. Faced with diminishing resources, the human race can only survive through a trade-off: at the age of 50, every citizen is gradually turned into a tree. When Stefan discovers that his beloved wife Nora has voluntarily signed up for donating her own body before her time, he sets out on an adventurous journey to […]
Toman is a historical drama about Zdeněk Toman, the real-life conflicted person who headed the Department of Foreign Intelligence. He significantly influenced political developments in Czechoslovakia in 1945–1948, activities which substantially contributed to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia seizing power in a coup in 1948.
Milan (40), a guest-worker in Germany, discovers that, back home in Slovakia, his teenage son has become involved with home-grown militias when he is accused of bullying and killing a classmate. The father starts to seek out the truth about what happened, the truth about himself…
In the back room of a flower shop, Tomi, Rasto and Mižu are digging a tunnel in order to break into the safe of a nearby bank. After heavy rainfall, the underground labyrinth becomes flooded with water and they are forced to stop working.
The film follows the journey of The Boy, entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies and The Boy is on his own, wandering through the countryside from village to farmhouse. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers extraordinary brutality meted out by the ignorant, superstitious peasants […]
The third part of the Garden Store trilogy takes place at the end of the 1950s. It is a story of love, this time love between lovers. It tells the story of the silent war between parents and their children marked by the war and the communist coup. Suitor outlines, from a tragicomic distance, the […]
The first part of the Garden Store trilogy is a melodrama set in the 1940s during the German occupation. Three young women and two children are waiting for the return of their imprisoned husbands and fathers. Jiří, a family friend and doctor, selflessly helps this family community thrown together by the war. The Family Friend […]