Attila Mokos

“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.

Eight chapters on the disaster that ensues after a simple man signs a blank piece of paper when handed a pen.

It's spring 1939. The bishop in Banska Bystrica finds out that in the village of Piargy, that was buried by an avalanche a few days ago, the Antichrist was born. The bishop calls on priest Balaz and asks him to investigate the statements of Johanka, the only survivor of the catastrophe. Balaz wants to know what exactly happened in Piargy.

Márta, uma neurocirurgiã de 40 anos, se apaixona por um médico que conheceu em uma conferência. Ela deixa sua brilhante carreira nos Estados Unidos para trás e retorna a Budapeste para começar uma nova vida com ele. Mas, logo no primeiro reencontro, o amor de sua vida afirma nunca tê-la conhecido antes.

Ali Ungar, de 80 anos, encontra um livro de um ex-oficial da SS descrevendo suas atividades de guerra na Eslováquia. Ele percebeu que seus pais foram executados por ele.

The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.

Um conto premonitório sobre as relações entre uma espécie superior e o seu inferior caído em desgraça. Banido e traído, "o melhor amigo do homem" revolta-se contra o seu antigo mestre.

Slovakia's entry for the 87th Academy awards.

This story actually happened in the region around the city of Sumperk in Jeseniky Mountains in May 1945. The disappearance of Agnes, the German wife of a Czech forester Jan Olsan is a dark mystery. She is the only one who knows who and for what reason is looking for her. It's the end of the war, times are bad and the Czechs are coming back from the inland to the frontier. The guards are forming and soldiers are coming. Fate brings together the outlaw Jan and his German brother-in-law Jurgen who has just returned from the eastern front line. Both men are looking for exactly the same woman and that is Agnes. But Agnes escaped; she is running away through the deep woods followed by the most powerful man of the county. Running away for what she had witnessed. The fatality of the relationship between Agnes and Jan can only be learned in the mountains on this thorny journey.

O filme "Cigán", de Martin Zulík, narra a história de um grupo de ciganos, seus costumes e desventuras como etnia discriminada. Os atores, muitos deles não profissionais, trabalham com verossimilhança em todas as situações, tantos naquelas em que obriga o roteiro quanto nos momentos em que devem improvisar.

Eslováquia, na véspera da deflagração da Segunda Guerra Mundial. A família do jovem judeu Martin Friedmann se reúne para celebrar seu bar mitzvah e fazer uma promessa solene de que todos eles se encontrarão novamente um ano depois em torno da mesma mesa, mas as tempestades de guerra e o fanatismo anti-semita conduzirão cada um deles por caminhos muito diferentes.

Set against the majestic mountains of central Slovakia, first time director Vladimir Balko explores the difficulties and challenges one former inmate must face upon his release from prison. Tono has just been released after a five-year stint in prison for lumber theft. Although attempting to stay on the straight and narrow, Tono is faced with many obstacles including building a relationship with his son, saving his now fragile marriage, and avoiding the tempting lure of his previous life of crime. A story of friendship and betrayal, SOUL AT PEACE was an official selection at the prestigious Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Three women, three stories, one film.