Martin Sulík

Jakub's life arrived at a dead-end. He leaves his job, and gets into conflict with his father. The trouble just grows by his relation with a married woman. Breaking out, Jakub realizes the pleasures of the countryside in the old garden of his grandfather. He finds true love with an angel, and encounters various exciting moments of his new free life. Strange visitors arrive, and he wont get back to town anymore. (imdb)

The story reflects somehow the same complex of situations. A jobless and divorcee late thirties guy faces a double crisis with his English girlfriend leaving Slovakia, and his teenager son looking for ways to express himself beyond the usual education borders. His dilemas are also a game in which limits of unknown freedom are to be tested. Should he leave his country for new horizons, paying the price of losing some of his identity? (imdb)

A Czech director wrestles with personal and political problems during the Prague spring of 1969. (imdb)

The film follows Teresa in her quest to find her mother. Doesn't sound particularly original, but the film is really great in that it takes place both within the "real world" and within Teresa's view of the world. I think to really enjoy this movie, you have to be the kind of person who doesn't feel the need to classify everything that happens as being "real" or "fantasy". (imdb)

A sweet natured 14-year-old Romani boy suddenly loses his beloved father to a mysterious accident and is forced into a life of crime by the man who takes his place. Once the police picks him up during one of his stepfather's failed scams, he realizes he needs to make a decision before he sinks in the mire. (tiff.net)

Set in the present, the four ordinary men in this story find themselves at crossroads in their lives. Karel, Tomas, Milan, and Vinc were once seduced by the possibility of making money in Ostrava's cosmopolitan melting pot. But times are changing - the company has offered their jobs to foreign workers. The friends try to solve their job loss by going into business themselves. (imdb)

80-year-old Ali Ungar comes across a book by a former SS officer describing his wartime activities in Slovakia. He realises his parents were executed by him. He sets out to take revenge but finds instead his 70-year-old son, Georg, a retired teacher. Georg, who had avoided his father all his life, decides to find out more about him and offers Ali to be his interpreter. (imdb)

Šimon, a solitary young student, is drawn into a liaison with an older couple, Mária and Viktor, whose partnership veers between passion and cruelty. Soon, caught up in their unsettling, claustrophobic and at times violent relationship, Šimon slowly learns the dark secrets of their past and comes to recognise the corrupt systems that shaped all of their lives. (secondrundvd.com)