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- 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.
- Real love saved her life. Famous photographer of film stars ZUZANA MINACOVA presents a fascinating account of the Nazi and Communist era in Central Europe.
- People from the region of Saris have been often called crazy Easterners. The OTHER WORLDS are following six of them to the end of the world, to the end of the world. They're a product made in Saris.
- 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.
- A documentary that looks at ordinary life situations in families with autistic children, revealing the everyday difficulties of life with them.
- "I am from nowhere" is what Andy Warhol used to say when asked about his origin. "Nowhere" is the tiny village Mikov in Slovakia which Warhol's mother left for the United States in 1921. Looking for Andy Warhol's roots countless camera crews from all over the world began coming to Mikov. This documentary is looking for the effects of this invasion.
- This unique documentary follows the life of a Slovak hockey legend, Pavol Demitra. It takes us from the very begining of his career in Slovakia through successful years in NHL to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and his tragic death in a plane crash in 2011. His family, friends and fans around the world remember him not only as a top sportsman but also as a good man with strong character.
- 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.
- 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 carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.
- 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.
- Feared, cursed and also admired, the same as its founder, in his life never defeated, the chieftain Genghis Khan. Mongolia, a magic country, searching for its present face in the heritage of the 13th century.
- Pictures of the Old World is an unquestioned masterpiece of European documentary cinema, with existential radicalism that offers a contrast to the shallowness of hundreds of other documentary films showing images from the outskirts of civilization. The outskirts here are a Slovakian town in the Tatra Mountains. Though censored for 17 years, Dusan Hanáks poetic visual essay is not a political or even social film. It goes to far deeper and more fundamental levels of human experience. Inspired by the photographs of Martin Martinek, the films power lies in its unusual portraits of people whose raw visual beauty radiates from their very souls. Some, like the village cosmos aficionado or the disabled old man who climbs stairs on his knees, are hard to forget.
- Visiting Slovakian Racha to get antiquated with Slovakian wine-making techniques, Rachvelian from Georgia, Zauri, falls in love with Slovak Darina. Consequentially, when Darina visits Georgia, Zauri does his best to make her also love him.
- Four film stories that, in a variety of ways, incorporate the fundamental human emotion, fear.
- 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.
- Only the best of the best can abseil into its depths of Trou de Fer, but even that doesn't guarantee they will ever manage to return. That's up to nature to decide.
- For Slovak Himalayan mountaineering, the 80s were a golden age. Cruel Everest documents their frustrated dream of climbing the mountain's most challenging face.
- Tony is wasting away at home. His controlling parents want to protect him mostly because, once he takes off his mask and gloves, he glows. But his new friend, Shelly, doesn't seem to mind it at all, as their house is shrouded in darkness.
- A historic mega-film, one family saga, three generations (1887 -1917) assimilated to the bee community in the hive. The queen bee serves as a big mother that symbolizes the family and national roots, the power and meaning of tradition and the return to it. The mosaic of the bricklaying Pichanda family's lives is made of love, hope, hard work, human understanding and also the tragedies of economic crisis, war and human malice. Dreams, symbols, and life in all its forms create a colored rainbow spanning from birth to death and from mystery to reality and back.
- 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.
- Bittersweet comedy about opression of poor Slovakian people by Austro-Hungarian aristocracy.
- 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.
- Stanko, a loser, gets his last chance to fulfill a task. The movie deals with the theme of girls trafficking, but tells at first of friendship and universal bonds between two people on the margin of society.
- Menhard and Márty are conquerors and companions. Márty mysteriously disappears. Menhard suspects he was abducted. But he has no clue where to look for him. Therefore, he visits the fortune teller Marenka. Who tells him where to look for Márty and sends him on a dark dangerous journey. His enemy Korty comes to his aid. But evil is more fatal than you think.
- A film documentary about discovering the secrets of the world's largest quartzite cave.
- A man is accused of stealing money from the charity where he works.
- He was The Beatles official photographer, working with the Rolling Stones and other rock stars of the second half of the 20th century. This feature-length documentary about the globally acclaimed Slovak photographer, who until recently was almost forgotten, highlights the importance of Dezo Hoffmann's influence on the development of the world of photography - his originality, creativity and not yet fully appreciated innovation, thanks to which his photographs have become and indelible part of the history of pop music.
- In her documentary on Hungarian-Slovak relations, Vladislava Plancíková focuses on the word "felvidék", which refers to the now non-existent northern part of Austro-Hungary. In a personal collage consisting of the stories of members of her Slovak-Hungarian family and of visual references to historical events, she follows the eventful and today often taboo history of the post-war fate of Hungarians on Slovak soil. The abstract topic grabs our interest not only through the witnesses' testimony, but also by using thre novel technique of animating real objects, including a number of contemporary and modern photographs.
- Spending years behind bars changes a person. For Miro and Zlatko, two Slovak inmates, the world "out there" has slowly lost its enticing luster: "You have to reeducate yourself, they won't do it for you," says one of them. Will the road to freedom have a happy ending or lead back to a gloomy cell?
- Two paramedics from Bratislava are a part of a military offensive against the city of Mosul. They advance through the city along with the Iraqi army which is liberating it from the so-called Islamic State. Their role is to rescue lives.
- Fascist Slovak State, Christmas Day 1944: regardless of this important Christian holiday, cruel Nazi repression is taking place in Slovakia. Men, women and children are executed by the hundreds by the Germans for taking part in the Slovak National Uprising and for merely helping the partisans. The Kubis family tries to survive the war as best they can, even if it means collaboration. Son Marian is a commander of the fascist guards, his cynical brother-in-law Palo runs a business and tries to keep a low profile as much as possible. Palo's wife Angela has begun an affair with Nazi Major Brecker, who is staying with the Kubis. However, a serious threat to everyone, including the grandparents, comes from their nineteen-year-old son Juraj, who fought with the partisans and managed to escape execution. The young man arrives home with an injured leg. While the Germans carry out house-to-house searches for the fugitive, Juraj waits in the attic for medical help and begins to delirious with fever. An "idyllic" Christmas Eve dinner takes place downstairs, to which Major Brecker himself has invited himself.
- Following Viktor Kolibec a soldier of the slovak troops of the 71th regiment of the Austria-Hungarian army. And their uprising against their commanders.
- A documentary exploring the key 25 films from the Czechoslovak New Wave of the 1960's.
- A disillusioned 30-something teacher falls out with his father and moves to a derelict house in their family garden. He is then visited by a stunningly beautiful neighbour, famous philosophers, his ex-lover and.
- Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.