Marek Leščák

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 aimlessly wandering around the abandoned cars and full platforms, Niki meets Vika (11), and a new world opens up to him. As their bond strengthens, the children find the courage once again to feel the sun on their faces.

Josef is a writer aged sixty, who thinks that nothing can surprise him any more. One evening, though, his phone rings and he finds himself caught up in a series of events that turn his world upside-down. His best friend – also a writer – tries to commit suicide; his young girlfriend Katka tells him she’s pregnant; and the man with hare ears – his alter ego from one of his stories – appears to him in everyday situations.

Братислава, 1980-е. Государство отчаянно пытается подчинить себе церковь. Некоторые священники принимают правила игры и участвуют в доносах, но есть и те, кто выступает за независимость. Они — единственная надежда истинно верующих. Однако государственные органы знают, как бороться с диссидентами: сначала допросить, потом убить и выбросить на обочину. Два друга попадают в семинарию с лучшими намерениями, но конфликт в стране разделяет их по разные стороны баррикад.

Два главных героя путешествуют по Словакии, стараясь разобраться в событиях прошлого. Попадая в странные ситуации и встречаясь с разными людьми, они начинают лучше узнавать друг друга и самих себя.

12-летняя звезда плавания испытывает эмоциональный стресс из-за предстоящего развода родителей. Это история о взрослении и противостоянии жестокости и незрелости взрослой жизни.

10-летняя Ярка живёт с мамой, которая ещё не готова быть настоящей матерью для девочки. Большую часть времени Ярка проводит в одиночестве. Но ей так сильно хочется иметь настоящую семью, что неожиданно для себя она «усыновляет» двух маленьких близнецов, оставшихся без присмотра. Позднее она встречает мальчика Кристиана, который помогает ей исполнить мечты.

Peter "Koza" Baláz is a former Olympic boxer. He and his partner, Misa, live in a dilapidated housing estate, constantly struggling to make ends meet. Misa learns that she is expecting a child and decides to terminate her pregnancy. In order to earn some much-needed cash and possibly change Misa's mind. He and his manager Zvonko embark on a "tour", where success is not measured in victories, but in the amount of blows that Koza can take.

Virtually without exception, a relation between parents and children is something that affects us throughout our lives. The first fiction film by award-winning documentarist Jaro Vojtek is an omnibus film about complicated relationships between parents and their children in which characters are challenged with long-term separation or declining health. Four stories titled Son, Marathon, Canary and Father tell four different tales that form a single view on the troubled relationship between parents and children. Each story takes place in a different season and together they create a multi-layered mosaic of relations reflecting hopes, disappointments and inevitable decisions. With a documentary filmmaker’s precision, Vojtek observes the characters and their behaviour, presenting an authentic picture of damaged family relations.

Ela, 15, has a love affair, which results in her being sent to a re-education center.

A grittily realistic tale of prostitution at an Eastern European border town

A grittily realistic tale of prostitution at an Eastern European border town

For 14-year-old Adam, the world of his poor Romany village has only two joys: boxing and Julka, a friend his same age. But after the violent death of his father, the boy experiences life’s harsher side: his mother remarries and his stepfather demands obedience without seeking to deserve Adam’s respect. Gradually everything the boy was attached to starts to fall apart around him, and if his dead father hadn’t visited him he wouldn’t even know which path to take. The inexperience of youth, loneliness, and impulsiveness prevent him from using reason and cool consideration to face the obstacles in his way, and he even sometimes provokes those who stand by him. And thus he finds himself in a situation for which there is only one solution.

A poetic story about love and happiness between doc and fiction.

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Красивая история одной девушки-подростка, которая отправилась на поиски своей матери в столицу Словакии. По дороге она постоянно встречает странных персонажей. Образы, нарисованные в книжках, смешиваются с реальным миром.