Just before World War I, the fifteen-year-old poverty-stricken Anne from a small Slovak town is sent to Prague to be a maid in a wealthy family. She meets Resi, the daughter of a noble family, who was born and raised to be an adornment and a trophy – of the house, of her family, of […]
On faith, hope and sacrifice. He wanted to escape from the world into a monastery, but he had to flee in order to save his life and to understand how brutal political power distorts the character and, at the same time, offers a last chance to resist and to save a loved one.
It’s spring 1939. The bishop in Banská Bystrica finds out that in the village of Piargy, buried by an avalanche a few days previously, the Antichrist was born. The bishop calls on the priest Baláž and asks him to investigate the statements of Johanka, the only survivor of the catastrophe. Baláž wants to know exactly […]
8-year-old Eda is a long-desired and anxiously protected child of parents who had already previously lost a baby. Eda is therefore a replacement child; he even bears the same name. After his father rejects affiliation with the Nazi invaders of Czechoslovakia in 1939, the family has to flee Prague into concealment at the home of […]
Filthy is the coming-of-age story of seventeen-year old Lena. In love with a boy for the first time, Lena longs for freedom and adventure. Her magical world is instantly shattered when her teacher, whom all her classmates have a crush on, rapes her in her own home. Instead of sharing her trauma, Lena keeps it […]
This film was inspired by three real-life stories from Slovakia, Russia and Canada. The Internet altered the fates of the three protagonists and brought them to the brink of life and death. It could happen to anyone! Who’s next? (1) The rapper Aless ends her string of concerts with a performance in her home town. […]
A woman leaves her husband and two children without a word. She is impelled by an inexplicable force. She wants to be free. Nora leaves for Vienna where she meets a younger man but she has the impression that the environment, which is culturally close to her own country, does not provide her with sufficient […]
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 7 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with the help and resilience of other inmates, they manage to escape. While the inmates they left behind courageously stand their ground against the Nazi officers, […]
The marriage of Milan and Táňa Labát is going through a crisis. Their 16-year-old daughter Lenka takes their alienation very hard. But one night will change their lives forever. Lenka is celebrating her 16th birthday, but she never returns home. Milan decides to take the search for his daughter into his own hands. Filled with […]