Martin Šulík

Emília (2023)

Emília Vášáryová. We know her face from newspaper and magazine covers and movie posters, yet we know so little about her. For more than sixty years, she has helped shape modern Czech-Slovak theater, film, and television, but only a few of her colleagu ...

Horse (2022)

The shouted teacher Dušička is not having the best time of his life. He is going through a crisis with his girlfriend who wants to own him. He has problems at school, forcing him to change the way he teaches. He worries about his neighbors, who impose mi ...

The Man with Hare Ears (2021)

Josef is a writer aged sixty, who thinks that nothing can surprise him any more. One evening, though, his phone rings and he finds himself caught up in a series of events that turn his world upside-down. His best friend – also a writer – tries to commi ...

Milan Sládek (2020)

The Interpreter (2018)

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 ...

Slovakia 2.0 (2014)

What is "Slovakia"? How to explain the notion of "Slovakia" of the past 20 years to an unknown stranger, a visitor from another planet? What is the genetic makeup or the software for "Slovakia"? How to use it? How does it change? Slovakia 2.0 is a film ab ...

Milan Čorba (2014)

Viliam Gruska - pútnik slovenským časom (2013)

Gypsy (2011)

For 14-year-old Adam, the world of his poor Romany village has only two joys: boxing and Julka, a friend his same age. But after the violent death of his father, the boy experiences life's harsher side: his mother remarries and his stepfather demands obedi ...

Martin Slivka: The Man Who Planted Trees (2007)

A tribute to Martin Slivka, one of the most important personalities of Slovak cinematography and culture. He was the creator of Slovak documentary ethnographic film, director, screenwriter, dramaturgist, film theoretician, pedagogue, author and ethnograph, ...

Little Girl Blue (2007)

Julie is a woman who seemingly has everything. A handsome husband, teenage daughter and a thriving, undemanding job as a translator and now even a new dream house ... But she also has a secret that is slowly changing her idyllic life... ...

The City of the Sun (2005)

Four friends, Karel, Milan, Tomáš, and Vinco, lose their jobs in Ostrava's working-class districts and, with their livelihoods gone, struggle to redefine themselves. They launch various business ventures but lack experience, leading to repeated failures. ...

Visions of Europe (2004)

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors. ...

The Key for Determining Dwarfs or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver (2002)

A Czech director wrestles with problems personal and political during the Prague spring of 1968. ...

Piece of land (2000)

Ten short unrelated stories that move chronologically through Slovakia's twentieth-century history as seen from the perspective of life in small towns and villages. ...

All My Loved Ones (1999)

Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. Drama ...

Prague Stories (1999)

A four-story omnibus depicting different Czech slices-of-life from the titular city. ...

Orbis Pictus (1997)

In Slovakia, the sixteen year-old Terezka is discharged from her school with a letter to her mother. Along her surrealistic journey to find her mother, Terezka entwines reality and fantasy and meets a man that is hired to burn clothes; a woman buried on th ...

The Garden (1995)

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. ...

Everything I Like (1993)

A film about the uncertainties faced by a man in post-Communist Slovakia, his relationship with a teenage son and English teacher girlfriend who's soon to return home to England. ...

Tenderness (1992)

A wonderful dark tale of coming of age in a country in transformation - then Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) in 1990s. Against the backdrop of a regime change and general crisis of basic values, a young man is finding his way into adult life. Playing a part ...

Hurá (1989)

A Grandfather recounts his life under communist rule, from apprentice miner to prisoner to pensioner. ...

The Demise of Paľo Ročka (1985)

A television production based on Bozena Slančíková-Timrava's short stories about social and moral conditions in a Slovak village in the 1930s. ...

Pod cudzím nebom (1984)

The Truth Is All There Is (2023)

Eduard Grečner. Film director, dramaturge, publicist and poet. A talented fi lmmaker with precise artistic goals which, due to circumstances and the times, he was not always able to realise. Refl ections on the ideological and aesthetic starting points he ...

Buko (2022)

After losing her husband, Jarmila finds herself at a crossroads in her life, where she must decide whether to patiently "wait out" the rest of her life or rebel and throw herself into an adventure with an uncertain outcome. Despite the well-meaning advice ...

The Man with Hare Ears (2021)

Josef is a writer aged sixty, who thinks that nothing can surprise him any more. One evening, though, his phone rings and he finds himself caught up in a series of events that turn his world upside-down. His best friend – also a writer – tries to commi ...

Servants (2020)

Michal and Juraj, two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia, must decide if they'll choose the easier way of collaboration, or if they'll subject themselves to the surveillance of the secret police. ...

The Last Self-portrait (2018)

Slovak director Marek Kuboš has not shot a film in 13 years. His first film ever – a student exercise at film school – was a self-portrait. The circle is closed, the source of creativity has seemingly dried up. All that is left to do in the last self- ...

The Story of The Miraculous Virgin (2018)

Documentary about Stefan Uher's film. ...

The Teacher (2016)

The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it's alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents. ...

Prague Stories (1999)

A four-story omnibus depicting different Czech slices-of-life from the titular city. ...

Zakázané uvoľnenie (1986)

Kára plná bolesti (1986)

War takes its cruel toll, which everyone must pay. It hits a small Slovak village especially hard, where the struggle for a bare life becomes a test of human character. For two impoverished friends, Jakub and Maja, struggling through poverty is more than d ...

Uhol pohľadu (1985)

Dedinský sen (1984)

An old woman dreams her last dream in the house where she has lived all her life, but now she has to leave it. Divided into five separate, internally coherent parts, the story recapitulates her life while remaining a universal final recapitulation of each ...

Haló, mami! (1984)

Zrelá mladosť (1983)

Biographical film about the work of the young Klement Gottwald. The story depicts his stay in Banská Bystrica, where he edited the Slovak communist press and helped organise the communist revolutionary movement. ...