Michael, a stand-up comedian, dreams big. Flying high, he quits his day job and hassles a new TV show to become a famous name in Slovakia. However unprepared for what is coming, his American niece and fresh college dropout Julia, seeking a new start in Europe, clips his wings and pulls him back into orbit.
Ágoston, a fifty-year-old man, takes up the chance to go abroad on a quest for the job of his long-forgotten dreams and gets caught up in the strangely absurd events of an Eastern European odyssey.
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Parallel Space explores alternatives to state power in an age of institutional collapse. Director Martin Piga follows digital nomads, voluntarists, and decentralist thinkers building parallel structures outside traditional authority. Blending personal journey, historical resistance and philosophy of the future, the film questions whether true autonomy is possible, or it’s just another utopia.
Rudo is an irresponsible male stripper who is about to go on his first dance tour through small towns of Central-Eastern Europe with a group of strippers. He finds comfort in his new profession, where people pay for his company, granting him a temporary escape from his fear of abandonment and hurt. But his world […]
A trio of estranged elderly siblings embark on an unlikely journey through southern Slovakia to obtain their father’s death certificate and claim a financial compensation. On the way, they face various conflicts and come to know colourful figures who join their expedition. They reveal that their father had survived the war and settled abroad. In […]
Two past stories of imprisonment from the totalitarian reality of Burma undergoing transformation, one banal and one fatal, frame the journey of the main protagonist back to the country which, for a few years, has been ranked among the top countries as regards the personal generosity of the population, and which was, for many decades, […]
Once beloved TV puppet stars from the golden age of children’s television have long been forgotten. Decades later, they struggle to survive in the absurd realities of the modern world. When they reunite, the old friends set out on an impossible mission – to stage a comeback. Blending sharp satire with warm nostalgia and pulsing […]