In the House

Boiling Shapes

Boiling Shapes

SK, 2024, 7 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues

Director: Samuel Škrabálek

Boiling Shapes is a surreal story about innocence, corruption, and the search for a lost identity. The chronology of events is disrupted to deepen the tension and mysticism. The film is presented in a square format to achieve a claustrophobic…

Far Between Us

Daleko mezi námi

SK/CZ, 2024, 13 min.; cz, sk

Director: Vojtěch Javůrek

Alone, surrounded by deep forests, little boy Vašek sees something strange in the sky. His biological mother, Iveta’s unexpected request catches his adoptive parents Jan and Pavel by surprise. Can the adults understand the young child’s emotions, or will Vašek…

Feast

Hostina

SK, 2024, 5 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues

Director: Rebeka Vakrčková

One night, Lea and her geese are awakened by the howling of approaching wolves. Using a forest horn, she warns the village of the danger. The villagers attempt to defend themselves, but fear overwhelms them. Lea quickly hides the goslings…

Hot Flush

Hot Flush

SK, 2024, 27 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Hana Hancinova

Elena, a social curator, is entering a new phase of her life as she approaches climacterium. As if it weren’t enough, Erik, a troubled teenager abandoned by his mother, who she mentors, misinterprets some of her gestures and initiates an…

NEUER: Cursed Legacy

NEUER: Prekliate dedičstvo

SK, 2025, 65 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Michal Kollár

A rare collection of historic banknotes can be a treasure… or a reason for murder. Chief Inspector Peter Ledecký and “Franko” Machrák investigate from the streets of Bratislava to the Albanian mafia, but their greatest enemy is an obsessive collector.

Nights and Days

Noci a dni

SK, 2024, 7 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Daniela Sláviková

Nights and Days is a brief exploration of the joys and struggles of girlhood, focusing on the lives of two sisters who, through an intimate dialogue in a hotel room, reveal the secrets of their relationship, their first menstruation, their…

Confession

Spoveď

SK, 2024, 29 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Rebeka Bizubová

The word trauma has many shades. The documentary Confession opens up the topic of sexual harassment in the church, which the director has experienced firsthand. She looks back at the world before the trauma, and searches for answers herself to…

Till Tomorrow

Tak Zajtra

SK, 2024, 17 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Hannah Dale

One day in the life of two brothers reveals the harsh contrast between the cold four walls of their home and fleeting moments of peace. On their way home from school, they have no idea what challenges await them behind…

Promise, I’ll Be Fine

Hore je nebo, v doline som ja

SK/CZ, 2024, 93 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Katarína Gramatová

Promise, I’ll Be Fine tells the story of fifteen-year-old Enrique, who is growing up with his grandmother in a forgotten Slovak village. His mother, Martina, works far away in the city and only rarely comes home. The summer days pass…

Charwoman

Riaditeľka

SK, 2025, 18 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Simona Lániová

The Charwoman is an intimate portrait of a woman who, despite adversity, refuses to give up control of her life. Ivona lives in a village. Her unemployment does not discourage her—she accepts any opportunity, whether it is manual work, part-time…

Thirty Days

Tridsať dní

SK, 2025, 29 min.; ua / en sub

Director: Mahdalyna Buriadnyk

The documentary film Thirty Days is a poignant story of Liuba—a Ukrainian woman—who, despite daily worries, work, raising a child, and other challenges, awaits her husband’s return from the front. The film reveals the inner courage, hope, and fears that…

Victoria

Viktória

SK, 2025, 15 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Stella Šuranská

The documentary film Victoria explores the themes of personal freedom, inner transformation, and the search for identity in today’s world full of possibilities. It follows a young woman, Victoria, who chooses a path of solitude, travel, and self-discovery instead of…

Grain of Life

Zrnko života

SK, 2025, 19 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Verona Hollá

Grain of Life is a poetic documentary about a woman’s transformation into a mother, interwoven with the wheat’s cycle of growth. A spring of new life, a summer of first touch, and an autumn of playful childhood are bound by…

Promise, I’ll Be Fine

Hore je nebo, v doline som ja

SK/CZ, 2024, 93 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Katarína Gramatová

Promise, I’ll Be Fine tells the story of fifteen-year-old Enrique, who is growing up with his grandmother in a forgotten Slovak village. His mother, Martina, works far away in the city and only rarely comes home. The summer days pass…

Father

Otec

SK/CZ/PL, 2025, 103 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Tereza Nvotová

Inspired by true events, the story follows a loving father. His life falls apart after a single tragic mistake shatters his happy marriage and leaves him completely alone. Despite the threat of prison and unbearable guilt, he tries to regain…

Father

Otec

SK/CZ/PL, 2025, 103 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Tereza Nvotová

Inspired by true events, the story follows a loving father. His life falls apart after a single tragic mistake shatters his happy marriage and leaves him completely alone. Despite the threat of prison and unbearable guilt, he tries to regain…

I Love You, Elephant

Mám tě rád, Slone

CZ, 2024, 4 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues

Director: Antonie Zavadilová

An elephant and a boy love each other, but they are separated by a maze in which they then try to find one another. They wander and wander. The boy finds the elephant only when he stops looking up at…

On the Rooftop

Na streche

CZ, 2024, 6 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues

Director: Arthur Maurer

The film On the Rooftop revives the memory of the spark of love between the director’s grandparents. A story he heard many times as a little boy, he sought to transfer into the medium of film, thereby preserving their memory.

A Couple of Fish

Pár ryb

CZ, 2024, 10 min.; cz / en sub

Director: Veronika Tůmová

A room full of bubbling aquariums. Hundreds of fish, separated from people only by glass. The film is a glimpse into the life of a married couple of aquarists who have dedicated their lives to the fish and each other.

The Portrait of Irma Geisslová, Who Died Sad

Portrét Irmy Geisslové, která umřela smutná

CZ, 2024, 18 min.; fr, cz / en sub / cz tit

Director: Kateřina Konrádová

The film maps the afterlife of the rediscovered writer and pioneer of literary decadence, Irma Geisslová (1855–1914). It does so not through well-known facts, but through the intimate experiences of five characters with Geisslová’s work. The film thus becomes a…

Ruvja and Morena

Ruvja a Morena

CZ, 2024, 7 min.; cz / en sub

Director: Julie Slovenčíková

An intimate portrait of a girls’ friendship “till death do us part” opens up the interval between childhood and adulthood, play and seriousness, reality and fiction. In this montage documentary, photographs from family archives intertwine with camera-less animation. The flow…

Shadows of Constraint

Stíny bezmoci

CZ, 2025, 26 min.; cz

Director: Matouš Vaďura

A student film inspired by the work of Egon Hostovský portrays the escape of the main character from the seat of a totalitarian state, where he is constantly consumed by fear and paranoia of arrest threatening him as a writer.

Telephone Game

Tichá pošta

CZ, 2025, 2 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues

Director: Laura Boráros

A man wants to send a message to a woman through a game of telephone, but the message does not reach its destination unchanged……

Slovak Sea

Zemplínska Šírava

CZ, 2024, 11 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues

Director: Arthur Maurer

In the film, the author returns to a personal theme—to Zemplínska Šírava, a place where he spent much of his childhood. Also known as the “Slovak sea,” this place once overflowed with children’s laughter and the bustle of thousands of…

Caravan

Karavan

CZ/SK/IT, 2025, 103 min.; cz / sk tit

Director: Zuzana Kirchnerová

Ester has just turned 45 and has nothing in her life except for caring for her severely mentally disabled son, David (15). David can’t speak and needs constant attention. Ester loves him deeply, but she’s drained by routine and coping…

Summer School, 2001

Letní škola, 2001

CZ/SK, 2025, 105 min.; cz, vi / cz tit

Director: Dužan Duong

Summer 2001. Seventeen-year-old Kien, with his bright red hair, returns to his family at the market in Cheb after ten years in Vietnam. Instead of a warm welcome, he is greeted by an estranged father, a worried mother, and a…

Change My Mind

Velký vlastenecký výlet

CZ/SK, 2025, 100 min.; cz / en sub

Director: Robin Kvapil

Do you think the war in Ukraine is a hoax? That the media is lying about the death toll and the consequences of the “special military operation” in Ukraine? That was the challenge issued by director Robin Kvapil, which was…

Caravan

Karavan

CZ/SK/IT, 2025, 103 min.; cz / sk tit

Director: Zuzana Kirchnerová

Ester has just turned 45 and has nothing in her life except for caring for her severely mentally disabled son, David (15). David can’t speak and needs constant attention. Ester loves him deeply, but she’s drained by routine and coping…

Slovak Oscar nomination