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- A young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
- Adaptation of controversial real-life story from the 1950s.
- The arrival of Maria Drazdechova, associated with the Communist party, to a school in Bratislava in 1983 worries parents, students, and colleagues.
- In the 1990s post-communist Slovakia, former woods worker Miki takes his chances to start doing business at a local level and climb up the ladder to become the biggest mafia boss in the country.
- Passionate Emma and impulsive but introverted Tomas fall in love. They are like two missing puzzle pieces coming together. But Emma's pornographic past inevitably catches up with them.
- The Oddsockeaters are small creatures, who live alongside us humans and are responsible for socks that go missing when we only have one left from a pair - the odd sock. They eat socks, but only one from each pair.
- Amateur actors rehearsing "Pictures from the Insects' Life". The actors find themselves living out their characters' roles and hallucinating insects. "Insects", is intercut with the creative process of the film itself and interviews with the actors about their dreams.
- Urban, an orphan, serves a greedy master watchmaker as an apprentice. When Urban grows up, he falls in love with the watchmaker's daughter Laura and wants to marry her. Before this can happen, the master sends his apprentice out into the world with the task of looking for a mythical watch that can warn of death. No one knows if the watch even exists, but if Urban doesn't bring it back, Laura will never be his wife. The watchmaker's apprentice therefore sets out on a long journey full of hardships, which he must overcome with bravery, skill and a good heart.
- Bittersweet comedy from Ondrej Trojan - "Obcanský prukaz", based on book by Petr Sabach about four teenage boys, their friends, parents, lovers - from the moment when they are 15 to moment when they are 18. Story is set in 1970s, when is Czechoslovakia occupied by Russians.
- This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an unsavory politician and dubious entrepreneur, but also the savior of hundreds of European Jews.
- Marika, a Hungarian widow dressmaker shelters a Jewish boy in her home on the Slovak-Hungarian border during the turbulent years of WW2 and the Wartime Slovak State.
- The picturesque story of the Czech-American family of Count Frantisek Antonín Kostka of Kostka who learns that his aristocratic fore bearers have left him their ancient family seat - the Castle of Kostka.
- A comedy about what one summer storm, one city ordinance, a set of golf clubs, rock and roll and one very angry daughter can do.
- A coming of age story about love, loss and revenge centers around two teenage friends, Adam (Vladimír Polívka) and Marek (Jan Cina), whose aimless lives in a small town are suddenly disrupted by the appearance of Anna (Johana Matousková), the troubled daughter of a rich and influential local businessman. Initially her free spirit energizes Adam but soon he finds himself thrown into a spiraling chain of events. His innocence is about to be abruptly replaced with the adult emotions of guilt, fear and revenge.
- Comedy inspired by paperback crime novels tells the story of an adventurous search for a mysterious murderer who just after the end of the First World War has begun a rampage in Wilson City, a jerkwater town somewhere in Central Europe. The investigation is being led by an inhomogeneous pair of detectives - a greenhorn and local police cadet named Kvido Eisner (Vojtech Dyk) and an experienced FBI officer Aaron Food (Jirí Machácek), who has been sent to Europe by US President Woodrow Wilson himself.
- An immersive journey through the life and work of Jan Svankmajer, last standing hero of Surrealism and author of some of the most unique masterpieces in the history of cinema.
- A story of political corruption, kidnapping and organized crime, an HBO Europe documentary The Lust for Power chronicles the incredible rise of Vladimir Meciar, Slovakia's first prime minister following its return to democracy after 40 years of totalitarian communist rule. Director Tereza Nvotova creates a hauntingly personal take on a society in crisis, using old home videos of herself and friends as children, playacting and imitating Meciar's ruthless use of propaganda and intimidation to achieve and maintain power.
- Three Roma living in the UK, but with close ties to Central Europe, film themselves over a critical period as their lives are transformed by the unprecedented combination of Brexit and Covid.
- Documentary filmmaker Jan Sikl came across several hours of footage showing the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in private film archives. 53 years later, historical memory awakens from a long slumber with this reconstruction of the occupation, a cinematic adventure of a truly archeological nature.
- A Kafkaesque documentary over ten years in the making that sheds light on the absurdity of a bureaucratic system, set within the never-ending process of renovation of the Slovak National Gallery.
- Documentary about world-renowned Czech opera mezzo-soprano Sona Cervená.
- TV Mini Series
- Miroslav Zbirka became a pop sensation to Czech and Slovak youth of the 1980s .
- Murderous Tales is a special effect animated feature film combining live actors with 3D/2D animation, puppets and back projection. It contains three stories while each episode uses different production technology and is in a different genre. All the episodes are about double standards and deal with heroism and death.
- "One is nothing, unity is everything" - says the anthem of Sokol, a movement that gathers thousands of people every 6 years in Prague to create an impressive mass performance. A human comedy about the society we live in today.
- The end of summer in Like Never Before also means the end of a life. Painter Vladimír Holas (Jirí Schmitzer) is dying. He doesn't want to die in a hospital, so his country home in the middle of a beautiful landscape is his last resort. There are two women with him: Karla (Petra Spalková), younger and a painter like Vladimír, is a bohemian and doesn't flinch at using bad language. The older Jaruna (Tatjana Medvecká) is a nurse, the painter's former lover, and very different from Vladimír and Karla. All three fight useless battles against death, against themselves, and among themselves. A moving drama in which dying is no easy matter and caring for a dying person is an ordeal.