“A burned-out group of Brno intellectuals decides to go to Kolochava in Ukraine to perform ‘A Ballad for a Bandit’ there.” With these words, the author's collective presents their film, in which they use primarily documentary imagery to compose a lyrical grotesque about an epochal trip, which might be their goal. But it doesn't have to be. The main tool of expression here is the film’s edit, which places various shots, statements, and meanings next to each other, often in a sort of productive conflict. Just like in a poem, the “poetic function” of art and its ability to serve as the primary tool for expressing beauty is manifested in full force before our very eyes.
policista
사춘기를 맞이한 11살 요나스는 버나드 할아버지와 함께 여름 휴가를 보낼 수 있게 되어 행복하다. 마음 같아서는 이곳에서 평생 떠나고 싶지 않다. 하지만 할아버지가 변했다. 은퇴한 이후로 할아버지의 삶은 정상궤도를 벗어난 것만 같다. 요나스는 털털한 성격의 소녀 알렉스와 함께 할아버지를 예전처럼 되돌려 놓기 위해 좋은 아이디어를 생각해낸다. 신뢰와 우정을 회복하기 위해 요나스가 되돌려야 할 것들이 많다. 하지만 결국, 어떤 것도 예전 같지는 않을 것이다. 왜냐하면, 훨씬 더 좋아질 것이 분명하니까!
Vilo
Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and make a solemn promise that they will all meet again a year later around the same table; but the storms of war and anti-Semitic fanaticism will lead each of them down very different paths.