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 […]
Since the arrival of new teacher Maria Drazdechova to a Bratislava suburban school in 1983, life has turned upside down for students and parents. The teacher’s corrupt behavior, and a student’s suicide attempt that could be related to it, makes the Principal call the students’ parents for an urgent meeting that will suddenly put all […]
After her husband’s death, Hana continues to reside in the family villa, by herself. Her two sons visit her with their families, but these visits frequently end in quarrels. When Hana meets Broňa, a hardy fellow, inured to winter swimming, a new world opens up before her. Broňa’s team-mates absorb her into their team and […]
A retired civil engineer, Duszejko, lives a secluded life in a mountain village close to the border between Poland and the Czech Republic. She is charismatic and eccentric, a passionate astrologer and a strict vegetarian. One day her beloved dogs disappear. On a snowy winter’s night shortly afterwards, she discovers the dead body of her […]
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Four film stories that, in a variety of ways, incorporate the fundamental human emotion, fear.
Former Olympic boxer Peter Balazs, nicknamed Koza, lives with his companion Misha in a ghetto for social cases. They live from day to day and are still penniless. Unexpectedly, Miša becomes pregnant and is determined to have the baby. She forces Koza to get hold of money for an abortion. Koza, who hasn’t been training […]
The ministers of foreign affairs of two Central European neighbouring countries meet at an informal hunting trip in a border region. After a shot fired accidentally by Minister Berger (Jan Kačer), a young beater dies. Since Berger is a hot candidate for the post of the Union‘s Strategic Commissioner For Water, the media immediately start to […]
Moments, a contemporary family drama, is structured around the young, warm-hearted woman, Anežka, who is always there for her family, tries to help everybody and keep her promises. But over the course of the story she learns that one’s self sacrifice needs to be limited and that sometimes she also needs to fulfil her own […]