Cinema Club

Love Me Tender

Love Me Tender

FR, 2025, 133 min.; fr / en sub / cz tit

Director: Anna Cazenave Cambet

Lawyer Clémence leaves her marriage and stable job to finally start living her own life and embrace her true identity. Her ex-husband fights for custody of their son Paul and resorts to a series of manipulative tactics to limit their…

Eastern Anthems

Eastern Anthems

CA/US/EC, 2024, 78 min.; en, fr, es / en sub / sk tit

Director: Matthew Wolkow, Jean-Jacques Martinod

An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialogue between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the American Great Eastern Brood X of periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years, invoking a…

The Sense of Violence

The Sense of Violence

KR, 2025, 114 min.; ko, en / en sub / sk tit

Director: Kim Mooyoung

The film traces the trajectory of cinema by uncovering the specific intersections shared within the historical context of “anti-communist art” during the Park Chung-hee regime (1970s). In particular, the censorship of anti-communist film imagery by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency…

Three Days of Fish

Drie dagen vis

NL/BE, 2024, 85 min.; nl / en sub / sk tit

Director: Peter Hoogendoorn

While living abroad with his second wife, 65-year-old Gerrie returns to Rotterdam for his annual health check-ups. There, he meets with his son, 45-year-old Dick, who yearns for quality time that his father stubbornly avoids. During their brief time together,…

Mr. Nobody Against Putin

Mr. Nobody Against Putin

DK/CZ/DE, 2025, 90 min.; ru, en / cz tit

Director: David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin

Pasha lives in a small Russian town and is a popular teacher at the local school. With the start of the invasion of Ukraine, his job description changes completely. He is forced to organize activities in accordance with the new…

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…

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…

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

FR/PS, 2025, 112 min.; en, fr, ar / en sub / sk tit

Director: Sepideh Farsi

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk is my response, as a filmmaker, to the ongoing massacre of Palestinians. A miracle happened when I met Fatem Hassona. She became my eyes in Gaza, where she resisted while documenting the…

Custom Tailored Death

Smrť šitá na mieru

CS, 1979, 84 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Martin Hollý ml.

An agitated man gets off the night train. He approaches the station buffet, orders food, a drink, and tells the waiter: “And then, once I’ve eaten, call the police. I killed Alfréd Blum. Now. Just a moment ago.” A drama…

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…

The Love That Remains

Ástin sem eftir er

IS/DK/SE/FR, 2025, 109 min.; is, en, sv, fr / cz tit

Director: Hlynur Pálmason

The latest film by Hlynur Pálmason (A White, White Day, Godland), a keen observer of human destinies and complicated relationships, captures a year in the life of a family as the parents come to terms with separation. Through intimate scenes…

13 Days, 13 Nights

13 jours, 13 nuits

FR/BE, 2025, 112 min.; fr, en / cz tit

Director: Martin Bourboulon

Kabul, August 15, 2021. American troops are leaving Afghanistan and the Taliban are attacking the capital. They take it over, and Kabul descends into complete chaos. Thousands of terrified Afghans flock to the last safe haven, the French embassy, where…

Vermiglio, the Mountain Bride

Vermiglio

IT/FR/BE, 2024, 119 min.; it, la / cz tit

Director: Maura Deplero

The year is 1944. In Vermiglio, a mountain village high in the Italian Alps, war is a distant but constant threat. The arrival of a young soldier—deserter Pietro—forever changes the relationships within the family of a local teacher. Pietro and…

Bogancloch

Bogancloch

UK/DE/IS, 2024, 86 min.; sco / en sub / sk tit

Director: Ben Rivers

Bogancloch is where modern day hermit Jake Williams lives, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with other people occasionally crossing into his otherwise solitary life. At the heart a song,…

Under the Flags, the Sun

Bajo las banderas, el sol

PY/AR/US/FR/DE, 2025, 90 min.; gn, es, de, fr, en, pt / en sub / sk tit

Director: Juanjo Pereira

Through rare and long-forgotten footage, this documentary uncovers the hidden machinery of Alfredo Stroessner’s dictatorship in Paraguay—one of history’s longest-running regimes. From propaganda to international broadcasts, the film exposes how the media shaped power, controlled memory, and built a legacy…

The Flats

The Flats

FR/BE/IE/UK, 2024, 114 min.; en / en sub / sk tit

Director: Alessandra Celesia

In his tower-block apartment in New Lodge, Joe reenacts memories from his childhood amidst the “Troubles“. In this Catholic area of Belfast, the number of deaths was tragically significant. Joe is joined by neighbours Jolene, Sean, Angie, and others, all…

Lesson Learned

Fekete Pont

HU, 2024, 119 min.; hu / cz tit

Director: Bálint Szimler

Lesson Learned tells the story of a school year at an average Hungarian elementary school, set in the present day, through the eyes of both a teacher and a student. Juci, a young literature teacher, tries to bring a new,…

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…

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…

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…

Winning Film of Section Cinematik.doc

Winner of the Cinematik.doc competition

Slovak Oscar nomination