Ivan Ostrochovský

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.

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.

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.

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.

This darkly grotesque drama unfolds on multiple paths. The tangible one, now cruel, now crazy, along which the nomadic actor "Dad Mour", his wife "Mum" and two sons try to return home, but also the imaginary one, even more, tortuous and dusty, on which the often impressive mental youth (or immaturity, a scrooge might say) is welded with life circumstances forcing the protagonist to wise up. An anxious and exuberant cinematic faerie about love, the fear of loneliness and the gaze of sons fixed on their fathers.

After a painful divorce, 50-year-old Nadia finally finds a good flat for reasonable price for her and her daughter. Too good to be true, and soon, albeit too late, she comes to understand the reason for the bargain. Her close neighbour in the house is mentally ill Valika who terrorises everyone around her. Piussi’s film creates a string of absurd encounters with increasingly menacing effects, but it is – at its core – a fantastically precise film about humanism, its consequences, its possible limits.

The real fate of Jiří Arvéd Smíchovský, a prominent hermeticist, occultist, believer in black magic and an exceptionally well-educated person with a brilliant memory. This avid book lover had doctorates in law, theology and philosophy and was fluent in five languages. He was interested in occult teachings, practiced magical ceremonies, was in contact with the Freemasons, but at the same time he was a member of the National Fascist Community while being homosexual. During the war he cooperated with the Nazis, after the war with the communist StB.

Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa’s women’s correctional facilities. She has just given birth to her first child, and now she is entering a world populated only by women: inmates, nurses and wardens, women of all ages, wives and widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant women, and women with children too. If not for the color of the uniform, it would sometimes be hard to tell who is who.

Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa’s women’s correctional facilities. She has just given birth to her first child, and now she is entering a world populated only by women: inmates, nurses and wardens, women of all ages, wives and widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant women, and women with children too. If not for the color of the uniform, it would sometimes be hard to tell who is who.

Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa’s women’s correctional facilities. She has just given birth to her first child, and now she is entering a world populated only by women: inmates, nurses and wardens, women of all ages, wives and widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant women, and women with children too. If not for the color of the uniform, it would sometimes be hard to tell who is who.

Пожилой владелец технологической компании, посвятивший всю свою жизнь работе, не знает, как дальше жить. Вся его фирма начинает разваливаться по швам из-за крупной кражи имущества.

The Hanuliaks, a couple from Slovakia, have decided to bring up their son according to Kamevéda, a complex approach to developing the child’s motor abilities and intellect. Unique in its depth of focus, this reflection on child-rearing documents a year in the life of four-year-old Miško, where not a minute is wasted since there is no room for boredom and moments of rest are merely preparation for the next achievement.

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.

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.

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.

Incomplete thoughts and fragments of dialogue, diverse music interrupted by rushes and glitches, and the seemingly confused, unanchored camera, create a disturbing, philosophical reflection on the limits of anthropocentric thinking.

Павел, травмированный гибелью девушки во время теракта в Тель-Авиве, нехотя соглашается на предложение своего одноклассника Плеха, который ищет нового штурмана дрона для съемок рекламы. Так же случайно Павел становится оператором на съемках избирательной кампании кандидата в президенты и постепенно втягивается в мир большой политики вместе с меркантильным Плехом – тот видит в кандидате «золотого гуся», который поможет нажиться. Идеалистическое мировоззрение Павла, мечтающего засудить Джорджа Буша за преступления в Гуантанамо, входят в противоречие с философией Плеха, считающего, что потребительство – тоже своего рода способ проявить общественную активность.

As if directing a science-fiction film, Johana Ožvold dissects the story of electronic music. From the pioneer sound engineers working behind the Iron Curtain, through the French avant-garde composers, up to the post-modern creators of digital sonic artefacts, the first-time filmmaker summons an abstract landscape that is haunting and yet achingly beautiful. A voice appears from old television screens forgotten in the maze of some futuristic archive where past and future seem to coexist in a complex and multi-layered way.

The story of a soldier’s parents told from the perspective of their 17-year-old grandson, Janek

Велогонщик Роман как всякий настоящий спортсмен заботится о своём теле и мечтает о рекордах. Хотя нет, Роман одержим своим физическим состоянием больше, чем обычный спортсмен: домашние тренировки обретают маниакальные черты. А супружескую постель Роман накрывает экспериментальной кислородной палаткой, чтобы приведение организма в идеальную форму не прекращалось даже ночью. Жена Романа Шарлотта тоже находится на грани одержимости. Женщина пытается забеременеть, и здесь тело ставит непростые условия, которые ужесточаются с каждым днём.

Два неблагополучных подростка угоняют старую машину и отправляются в самостоятельное путешествие по стране, наслаждаясь внезапной свободой.

Documentary about Stefan Uher's film.

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

A documentary about the present and the past of Čierna nad Tisou, a border town in the south-east of Slovakia, once the "Golden Gate of Socialism".

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.

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.

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.

Documentary about Slovak fascist militia called Hlinka Guard, named after Andrej Hlinka.

Documentary about Slovak fascist militia called Hlinka Guard, named after Andrej Hlinka.

Documentary about Slovak fascist militia called Hlinka Guard, named after Andrej Hlinka.

Part documentary, part mockumentary and part stranger-than-fiction lesson in guerilla tactics, Velvet Terrorists is a quirky profile of three very different men and their former attempts to take down the communist regime of Czechoslovakia – by blowing the hell out of it. Having all spent time in prison for their crimes, one-time bombers Stanislav, Frantisek and Vladimir muse on their personal histories, the fall of the regime and their journey into middle age.

Part documentary, part mockumentary and part stranger-than-fiction lesson in guerilla tactics, Velvet Terrorists is a quirky profile of three very different men and their former attempts to take down the communist regime of Czechoslovakia – by blowing the hell out of it. Having all spent time in prison for their crimes, one-time bombers Stanislav, Frantisek and Vladimir muse on their personal histories, the fall of the regime and their journey into middle age.

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