A Sarcofaghus for a Queen
Documentary on the making of a seven-ton sarcophagus by Danish sculptor Bjørn Nørgaard commissioned by Denmark's royal court for a chapel at Roskilde Cathedral, manufactured together with Czech artist Zdeněk Lhotský.
Suchá Hora
A stylized documentary film tracking the changes in the remotest Slovak village at the very edge of the Orava Region at the Slovak-Polish border. The film's subject can be traced through nearly all of Eastern Europe. It…
The Great Sadness
1953 was a year of great sadness for Czechoslovak citizens. Obligatory mourning intervened in their lives after the deaths of Stalin and Gottwald. Their grief was sincere because of the currency reform, which ruined…
Courage
The documentary by Pavel Štingl focuses on the upcoming realization of the equestrian statue of the margrave Jost of Luxembourg in the Moravian metropolis, Brno. The three-year-long dialogue in front of the camera…
Eugenic Minds
Selective human breeding during a time of ideologies that promised to create a perfect world. Eugenics was once considered more groundbreaking than the invention of the wheel. It was supposed to save mankind from…
My Neighbour Killed Heydrich
The story of the last direct witness to remember the participants in the Reinhard Heydrich assassination. An epic about a Moravian farmer persecuted by all regimes of the last century. A life's journey of a 92-year-old…
The Baluty Ghetto
I discovered the Baluty district three years ago, almost by chance. It looks much like in surviving wartime photographs. Today, the devastated houses are inhabited by a highly unusual social group which differs…
Peace to Their Souls
Shot as a historical documentary, this feature-length film almost exclusively casts non-actors. It takes the viewer through nearly a century of life in Paseky nad Jizerou, a village situated in the foothills of Northern…