Michaela is young and ready for it. But when she finally gets her first period, it doesn’t feel the way it should. It is a nightmare. Period Drama is a short animated film composed of four chapters with plot points referencing the biological events that occur during the phases of a menstrual cycle. The film […]
Promise, I’ll Be Fine follows 15-year-old Enrique and his mother, Martina. Enrique hopes for her return home so they can be together, instead of being apart due to her job. Living with his grandmother in a village, Enrique obeys his mother’s requests in the hope that they’ll save enough money to reunite. When he’s not […]
One phone call shakes Petra’s life from the ground up. Her husband’s fatal collapse causes Petra to become a widow from day to day. As she soon finds out, sadness and loneliness are not the only challenges she has to face.
Video footage shot by two sisters portrays their escape from the real world through their phone while living with their mother, who is escaping the same world but with the help of alcohol. Their nice memories are interwoven with the family’s struggles.
Six-year-old Amálka lives with her parents and grandparents under one roof in a small town in the early 1990s in Czechoslovakia. She is an innocent and playful girl who perceives the world with emotions and intuition. When her parents’ marriage gets into crisis, they try to hide it from her, but she gets caught in […]
Marika, a Hungarian widow dressmaker shelters a Jewish boy in her home on the Slovak-Hungarian border during the turbulent years of World War 2 and the Wartime Slovak State.
Prague 1967 – Tomáš (28) brings up his younger brother Pavel (16). He is not interested in politics himself and tries to keep his brother away from it too. Under unlikely circumstances, Tomáš is recruited as a technician for the pro-democracy Foreign Broadcasting Department of the Czechoslovak Radio, which is gaining more and more influence, […]
Ingrid, a single mother living with her daughter and grandmother in an eastern Slovak village where Roma face stigma, becomes a professional parent to a Roma girl to survive.
On 24th of February, in the morning my boyfriend and I decided to go from Kyiv to Irpin to his parents. It is hard for me to recall the chronology of those days, my mind blocks and undervalues all the memories, erases them, but the only thing I know for sure is that every day […]