They survived the Nazi’s killing machine and are forced to fight for their existence and civil rights today. Europe and the Roma – a search for clues that’s full of sadness and absurd humour.
Helena Třeštíková observed the seemingly ordinary marriage of Ivana and Václav for more than three decades. Until we realise that “ordinary” exists only for the casual observer.
Every morning the awaker does his strenuous job. When his strength runs out one day his grandson has a brilliant idea.
The cinema Dacia in provincial Romania and Mr. Purice: a Don Quixote fighting against privatisation and digitisation, for his audience and – the dream of cinema.
Aided by the two elves Josephine and Bertie a water nymph who can’t sing discovers her true strength: storytelling.
A trip along the natural gas pipeline from Siberia to Cologne: ice fishers, religious maniacs, Putin-supporting tuba players, veterans and carnival-makers. A panopticum of powerful images.
Optimizing humans, from the beginnings to the Third Reich to contemporary genetic research. Brilliantly animated archive images in a depressing essay on insanity.
Trans-Dniestr: a living museum of Soviet-style communism on the borders of the Moldavian Republic. Propaganda, secret police, and a bizarre refuge from the dangers of modern life.
A community of small furry creatures live deep in the forest. Every day they wait and yearn for the golden fruit of the clouds that fall from the sky.
A wild ride through the field of tension between artistic expression, provocation, lifestyle and the market and the life of Czech avant-garde artist Zdeněk Rykr.
Prague Spring, Soviet tanks: the starting points of a family history intersecting with contemporary history set between the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Russia.
After years in Israel the filmmaker returns to Nabbin in the Czech Republic, the place where she grew up, and to the people who surrounded her then.
Hypnotic songs which accompany and outlast an artist’s life that ends in tragedy. A city between social stagnation and pulsating energy. Beach and desert.
Hyper, obsessed, annoying, artistic, melancholic, weird: the fantasy worlds of young people with Asperger syndrome. About the curse and the blessing it is to be different.
A spectacular murder case and an unsolved puzzle in Slovak history. A cool reconstruction of the map of events, a complex of power and manipulation, politics and perfidiousness.
