Erika Hníková

Czech Republic

Erika Hníková

director, producer, script writer, director of photography, editor

Every Single Minute

Every Single Minute

A Slovak married couple spend every minute of their life raising their 4-year old son to one day become a successful athlete and a “quality human being”.
Jasmina Strikes Back

Jasmina Strikes Back

The documentary film about Jasmina Houdek is a portrait of a strong woman who managed to overcome the trauma of rape in her adolescence and became an important personality in the field of self-defense and especially in…
Single Moms

Single Moms

There are over 195,000 households in the Czech Republic where children live with just one of their parents. In most cases, these single-parent families are pretty much run entirely by the mother figure, who must…
Three Gifts

Three Gifts

"Three Gifts", a documentary by Erika Hníková, takes us to the remote mountainous areas of Northern Afghanistan and presents a bit different picture of the country currently known mostly from the war reporters. The…
Matchmaking Mayor

Matchmaking Mayor

A situational documentary film about a village mayor trying to match local people in their thirties who are still single. Slowly but surely, the Slovak village Zemplínské Hámre is dying out. Its mayor, a retired general…
I Guess We'll Meet at the Eurocamp

I Guess We'll Meet at the Eurocamp

A documentary about a village with no traditional Czech pub on the square, but a Eurocamp on the periphery instead. A film about opportunities and about the ironic reality of a Czech village in the European Union. What…
The Beauty Exchange

The Beauty Exchange

The perfect female body is a big issue in today's world. This feature documentary is about the media constructing the ideal of female beauty, about women who create the ideal and those who submit to it.