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- Following the life of a Roma Slovakian family living in Sheffield, leading up to a Thai Boxing event where all six members of the family compete on the same night. A coming of age story filmed over three years.
- Snowy Mountains rise high above the untouched jungle of New Guinea, breaking through heavy rain clouds. A limestone pyramid, known as the Carstensz Pyramid, soars above them as the most exotic, but also the most inaccessible mountain in the world. The peak of this mountain was conquered for the first time, by Heinrich Harrer, in 1962. Access to the foothills of this mountain lead through the territory of the legendary Damal native tribes and still belongs amongst the most adventurous expeditions. Apart from obtaining the necessary permits, the biggest problem lies is in persuading the naked natives to help us with the transport of equipment from Beoga, across wild rivers and mountainous jungle, up to the snowy glaciers below the Carstensz Pyramid.
- The forest ecosystem has its own balance. The documentary Oko Medveda 'Eye of the Bear' reveals the hidden life of the wolves and bears in Slovakia. But it also points to the inappropriate practices of modern hunters who are already completely deviated from the balance of the forest.
- Jan decides to undergo a surgery that will help him better his living conditions, but only if he survives. There is a 50% chance. He is getting ready for the life-changing date, 5th October, by making a trip to quiet places, which is thoughtfully captured by his brother.
- Guerrilla DIY music documentary about Slovak folk-punk musician Dasa Fon Flasa. Photographer Egor Indiani accompanied him on his tour through southern Poland and wild Slovakian East.
- Flooded is an anthropological documentary film about a building and the fates connected to it. The mansion in Parizovce was a family residence, home, property, center of a farmstead and eventually a historical monument. Some parts of the building have been preserved and have endured through centuries, others have been flooded by the waters of the Liptovska Mara waterworks. For the descendants of the Stein family, its last owners, the mansion is a memory of a lost past. For museum curators it's a gem, a phoenix risen from the muddy waters, the pride of the Liptov region. An unusual story of the mansion from Parizovce and its last owners, that is also a reflection of the social changes in 20th century Slovakia.
- A happy and worry-free young person on the periphery of Slovakia receives a gift from his father on his eighteenth birthday - a job in the mines. This triggers a series of situations in which he tries to avoid this traditional work and searches for various other opportunities. His efforts are, however, in conflict with the character of the environment and the social opportunities it provides. In the end, he comes to an inevitable conclusion, which places him - despite his inclination to the contrary - on the threshold of adulthood.
- Is it possible to climb the hardest route on Mount Everest in Alpine style? Sir Chris Bonington, the most famous British climber, named this route The Hard Way and stated it is impossible. It became a challenge for four Slovak climbers. In 1988 they started their hardest way with no escape.
- A man impersonating historical experience and intellectual evolution, the almost-90-year-old film critic and theoretician Pavol Branko passes through three stories about three women and surprisingly for an author of many studies on documentary films, finds himself a subject of a documentary.
- It is a documentary about the Slovak judiciary by Zuzanna Piussi. She remembered a meeting between the governments of the Czech Republic and Slovakia and put it in the documentary. Judge Kozikova denies that that meeting happened. This may cost Ms Piussi two years in jail.
- The High Tatras are considered a National Park in Slovakia. It has more than three hundred peaks, many higher than 2500 meters, romantic valleys with no access roads, crystal-clear streams and forests inhabited by wolves, bears and lynxes.
- A controversial story of a Slovakian-Libyan family in the middle of a civil war. Luba El Malaheg, Slovakian nurse, lives in Misrata and works in local hospital for over 20 years. The war changed her life in to 'hell on earth'. Now it's over, but nothing is like it was before. A documentary about searching for identity and homeland. Story of love and death.
- A television portrait dedicated to Ivan Palúch, an important figure in Slovak film acting, who touched the stars during his career, but paid the price for harsh normalization restrictions after returning to Czechoslovakia.
- A captivating and distinctive Slovak natural history film delves into the country's forests, combining eco-agitation to elucidate distinctions between natural and man-made forests. It explores the significance of dead trees, the factors contributing to the calamity in the Tatras, the vitality of dry forests, the phenomenon of lykozrút, the transformations in areas post-harvesting and those left for self-development, the requirements for seedling growth, and the anticipated appearance of unharvested areas in the coming years.
- A group of musicians, Roma, non-Roma and African, meet in an evangelical church in Eastern Slovakia to record a CD of old Roma songs. The recording process, and the music itself, become a sort of therapy, a new purpose in life for many of them. Béla cannot express his sorrow after losing his wife and children but he puts all his emotions into his touching songs; Irena leaves her husband and children for a couple of days to devote herself to the songs she always considered a part of her life. This documentary is about happiness, love, tolerance and the therapeutic power of music.
- Ladislav Kabos's documentary film capture transformations of modern architecture in Slovakia during the troubled twentieth century. It presents the 16 most important works from the origin of the Czechoslovakia to the present, reflecting the significant historical moments of the birth of modern Slovakia. The professional guarantor of the documentary is Henrieta Moravcikova, a scientist at the Institute of Building and Architecture SAV
- In the era of satellites, this country of mysteries, myths and undiscovered secrets hides behind green walls of impenetrable deep forest.
- Gálfy left remarkable traces behind, wherever he went: atop world-class peaks, and in the hearts and minds of many people. As a founding member of the Slovak Mountain Rescue Service , Gálfy brought the organisation up to European standards.
- For Slovak Himalayan mountaineering, the 80s were a golden age. Cruel Everest documents their frustrated dream of climbing the mountain's most challenging face.
- Docu-drama about an aging psychologist living together with an adult Gypsy woman. This is a film unveiling the true sense of help, inspiring tolerance and openness. It describes and analyzes the co-habitation of two women unknown to each other through their testimonies and memories. Both Lucia and Katarina tell their own life story. At one point, their narratives intersect and we find that the two women have much more in common than just the same residential address.
- Documentary portrait of tree photographers of decadence from Slovakia: Michal Konusik alias Hellmet, and Czech Republic: Ladislav Nekuda alias 3-stan and Antonin Tesar.
- An authentic story of four Slovak and Russian polar explorers who tried to cross the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Canada through the North Pole, thus fulfilling the last remaining, almost impossible dream of Arctic explorers.
- Hanka must spin the straw into gold, or the king will execute her father. Rumpelstiltskin comes to her and teaches her how to spin gold on the condition that he will return in one year, and Hanka must guess his name or he will marry her.
- Tereza - The CHrage of Love is an intimate feature-length documentary that reveals the deep relationship between a mother and her disabled child. The late Tereza Gasparikova, well-known translator and interpreter, speaks about her life, about sacrifice, about the love that constantly recharged her and about the cancer that blindsided her. Despite its seemingly serious subject matter, this is a film full of hope and optimism, thanks in no small part to the disabled Majka, who shrugs off her handicap and does her best to enjoy life to its fullest. We also sea Mrs. Gasparikova at work as an interpreter of the highest caliber.
- Set against the backdrop of the death of an abused child, the film sketches a dark picture of the state social care system for threatened children in Slovakia. This mosaic of interviews with people who run the system or who are enmeshed in it carries an openly critical appeal - not to aggressive parents or arrogant social workers, but to a non-functional system such as it is. In contrast to the system's dehumanizing character, we meet Serafínka, who in her efforts to help others displays truly heroic enthusiasm. The film is characterized by the direct, non-manipulative way of filming the individual persons involved.
- With hundreds of pounds on their backs, they face storms, blizzards and deep snow. Their job is not only a job, but also their path to calm. We get to know the oldest generation of carriers of the High Tatras, who climb the huts every day.
- The film is a search for Peter Gasparik's grandfather Stefan Truban, who was a resistance fighter and concealed the persecuted, defectors and Jews during World War II. Through private history we get to global history.
- They have to create a mini-series about how it is to film dangerous conservation expedition with strong emphasis on the behind the scenes. And they go to find big sharks being beaten to death by wooden clubs.