Ivan Ostrochovský

Slovakia

Ivan Ostrochovský

producer, director

Photophobia

Photophobia

In the spring of 2022, Kharkiv metro is transformed into an experimental laboratory. Everything is reversed here – life and safety below, death and destruction above. In the middle of it all, children grow up like…
The Shift

The Shift

A babysitter, a bunch of laborers, and a long-haul truck driver. All were born in Slovakia, but after the country joined the EU, they took the opportunity to work elsewhere in the Schengen zone. During week-long work…
Eternal Jožo

Eternal Jožo

An untraditional documentary portrait reveals the complicated personality of the Slovak music legend Jožo Ráž, the singer for the pop-rock group Elán. From recordings of everyday situations, playful moments, intimate…
Varga

Varga

A portrait of an ageing musician.
5 October

5 October

A quiet story about a man facing the possibility of only having a few months to live and embarking on a vagrant journey with only a "deadline" - 5 October.
Hotel Sunrise

Hotel Sunrise

There’s no choosing from out of nothing.
Richard Müller: This Is Not Me

Richard Müller: This Is Not Me

An intimate portrait of a legendary csechoslovak singer Richard Müller on a tour with his band Fragile.
Velvet Terrorists

Velvet Terrorists

Three men longing to become heroes. During the 80s, they decided to fight the communistic regime in Czechoslovakia. Three stories about the thin line between defence and offence, courage and chance, presence and past...…
Slovak Cinema: Guerillas

Slovak Cinema: Guerillas

The theme of war and the Slovak National Uprising has been appearing in Slovak film since the 1940s. As one of the most important milestones of Slovak history, it figured in the birth of “Slovak political mythology”.…
Ilja

Ilja

A film manual on how not to get pulled down by communism or by ones own death or The last days of Ilja Zeljenka, the most famous music composer of the second half of the 20th Century, known for auditioning his forbbiden…
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