Documentaries

A British documentary that follows two young North Korean girls as they prepare for the Mass Games, the world's largest choreographed gymnastics performance.

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.

The mayor of OSADNE, Mr. Ladislav Mikulasko, is a political record-holder. He has held the position of the village boss for a respectful thirty-six years. His spiritual counterpart, the Orthodox priest, Peter Soroka, has buried fifty people and christened two children over the past five years. The mayor and priest have decided to fight for the survival of the village, together with their wives who are their important shadow advisers.

A documentary on the attempt by Gypsy leader and his team to win elections in white Slovakia.

A documentary about a village that was during one night in 1947 separated by force into a Soviet and a Czechoslovak part in a way, that the border runs through the middle of the village, separating properties and families.

A documentary that looks at ordinary life situations in families with autistic children, revealing the everyday difficulties of life with them.

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

Interviews with military cooks from various European armies.

A documentary film about the Kosice swimming pool where history came to bathe. Seen through several stories which unfolded between the years 1936 and 2002, the film captures 66 seasons at the popular swimming pool, and the same number of years in the history of Central and Eastern Europe.

The Film maps the terrorist acts of individuals in the period of "normalisation" in Czechoslovakia. Their attempts, which often remained unrealized, were isolated heroic cries in the homogeneous gray mass of society. With the main theme as the background, the film looks at issues of ethics, irrationality and terrorism, its sense and deadly force in today's world. The film focuses on a trio of protagonists. The first wanted to blow up a podium during Labour Day celebrations in the 1970's. The second wanted to assassinate the President and launch an anti-Communist revolution, but his letter addressed to the CIA was so naive that he never received a response. The third destroyed billboards. At the time their acts were crimes, though today they are considered to be heroism. It is a film about relative perspectives on history and its heroes.

A film documentary about discovering the secrets of the world's largest quartzite cave.

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.

It's said that Bhutan was forgotten by people but never by the Gods. The natives call this ancient mountain kingdom, crowded between Indian Assam and Chinese Tibet, the land of the Thunder Dragon. Wandering through a forgotten country in which people worship all living things is a story of happiness. Internal peace is valued here more than a craving for worldly pleasures, and harmony with nature is the supreme principle. A good king cares for the wealth of his people. Instead of Gross Domestic Product, he promotes Gross National Happiness. It's like a fairytale world. In its fragile perception of happiness, this small Himalayan kingdom has chosen to follow a strange path. Maybe, its the correct one.

A poetic story about love and happiness between doc and fiction.

Film about mom and her son Lubos, who conquered the world upside down.

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?

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.

Director Zuzana Piussi explores the sources of contemporary Slovaks' national pride. Where they lack great historical power in the past, people define themselves in opposition to surrounding nations and try to find heroes in the distant past. The need to base one's self-confidence on membership in a particular nation is easily abused for political aims.