A boundary-blurring journey through the subconscious, this surrealist animation fuses two distinct artistic visions into a single fever dream. Matej Longauer’s hallucinatory time-lapse visions with Richard Dömös’s intimate, portrait-driven iconography drawn from the aesthetics of BDSM.
90% of everything we consume is shipped to us by boat. Seablindness explores the environment in which land meets the sea, the interstitial space of ports where capital is concentrated and distributed. Endless depos, cranes capable of moving hundreds of tons with disturbing precision, gigantic ships ready to sail to the other side of the […]
In one of Slovakia’s largest Roma settlements, everyday survival meets unexpected dreams. Dezider and Lavor fight to bring order into chaos, Broskva refuses tradition and aims to become a car mechanic, and young runner Dany chases freedom with every step. City of Dreams reveals raw hardship, disarming humor and surprising hope in a place the […]
Was Béla Hancsovszky an adventurer, terrorist or freedom fighter? On August 8, 1945, someone blows up the Tornalja Police Station, witnesses see three perpetrators, but only Hancsovsky is sentenced to death.
12-year-old Adam, a determined self-proclaimed local lumberjack in the so called Slovakian “hungry valley”, strives to break stereotypes and reveal his true identity in a community marked by differences and expectations.
On a cold February morning, 12-year-old Niki and his family arrive at the Kharkiv metro station to take shelter from the terrifying war raging outside. For Niki’s family, daylight is synonymous with mortal danger, and the boy is not allowed to leave the station premises, living under the constant glow of their neon lights. While […]
The film is a reaction to the current wave of post-humanist thinking caused by the development of technology and artificial intelligence as well as the climate crisis. The human species is coming to recognise its insignificance and transience, and human identity has found itself in a crisis. FREM attempts to reflect this feeling and creates […]
Four stories about hearing-impaired children from Roma settlements who inhabit an environment they cannot fully comprehend and dream their own world. Sandra, who loves football and Ronaldinho; Marian, who wants to become a train conductor and idolises J. C. Van Damme; Alena and Rene, who fear that they’ll have a deaf child; and siblings Roman, […]
Oanh, a Slovak-Vietnamese woman, recalls her 1990s childhood with Hana in Czechoslovakia, where xenophobia began shaping post-socialist life. Limits to Our Pain is a mosaic documentary combining archival materials, photographs, and staged scenes to reconstruct an individual past against the backdrop of historical change. The film gives voice to a minority experience and shows how […]