KINEDOK CATALOGUE

A shock to the whole world, thousands dead, and the two tallest buildings in New York leveled to the ground. That's the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. The situation should be stabilized by diplomat and newly appointed chairman of the Inspection Commission for Iraq - Hans Blix.

Every national cinema has creative generations that follow closely and influence each other. Whether as colleagues, as teachers and students, or as friends who share inspirations over drinks in the evenings. How do the last three generations of Slovak documentary filmmakers interact on these levels?

Neither of them has a place to live, but with mutual understanding, they create a common shelter somewhere in the Hungarian wilderness. A time-lapse portrait of an unexpected friendship between a teenage girl going through transition and a kind-hearted man in his sixties.

A bus full of Romanian passengers from various social backgrounds embarks on a journey where they will all have to confront their own beliefs and diverging life experiences. A sociological documentary road movie, traveling in pursuit of the legacy of the priest Arsenie Boca.

Behind every bankrupt company can lie hundreds of different human stories. A critical look at the everyday consequences of political corruption and also an elegy for the factory that until recently represented a significant part of its employees' lives.

"Forgotten past is a memory that is missing in our collective consciousness." Just like places that have disappeared from the world and are gradually fading from our memory. Like the Georgian hospital Abastumani, which no longer exists, but thanks to the medium of film, it doesn't necessarily have to vanish from our collective consciousness.

Alongside climate activist Sarah, we travel to various places across Europe to listen to people who are trying to halt the global ecological catastrophe by addressing local issues.

Young women from socialist Hungary seek their happiness and a chance to connect with foreign consumerism through relationships with Italian men. How does this idyll turn out?

A young Ukrainian theater director invites us to search for today's Hamlets together with her. Her theatrical production becomes the starting point for a captivating portrayal of the young Ukrainian generation, which is marked by war and a period of significant political changes.

What happens to a person when he loses everything from one day to the next? From the Bottom is a documentary experiment and personal research of a young social worker who decided to spend a week on the streets of Ústí nad Labem. He tried to understand more about the reality of his clients. In the raw continuous footage of a hidden camera, we witness various social interactions, but above all the rapid changes in the immediate experience of the protagonist.

Imagine a world without bees. Would it be healthy? Would it still exist at all? And what would the world look like without people? Contemplation on the importance of an irreplaceable microcosm, through which we are able to even define ourselves. A spiritual reflection on how bees can teach us and lead us back to nature – just open your eyes. The film is available from May 1, 2023.

What does it mean to be at home somewhere and to be “only” a visitor? Is it possible to learn to live in a space that rejects you? The story captures the two-year research of an anthropologist Zdenka, who moved to a foreign world with her family. A documentary about acceptance, freedom and the desire to feel safe and at home. The film is available from May 1, 2023.

Miloš Zeman has said a lot of controversial, often offensive bon mots that people have tended to define themselves against. One of them was addressed to Romani people who are supposedly afraid to work. One of those people was Štefan Pongo. He was a truck driver, a family man, and an activist who openly opposed Zeman. The film is available from May 1, 2023.

Why is it sometimes useful to put down a healthy animal? And to what extent is it good to show children science? A humanistic film linked to the death of a young giraffe reveals the relationship between humans and nature, and above all the conflict between science and ethics. The film is available from May 1, 2023.

What do you do when, through no fault of your own, you become an outcast in your own home? This is exactly the situation that Andrea, her daughter and her son have found themselves in due to the return of an abusive ex-boyfriend back to the neighbourhood. How do you convince unbelieving neighbors who is the victim and who is the predator? The film is available from May 1, 2023.

Was the collapse of the Soviet Union the greatest geopolitical catastrophe, as Vladimir Putin put it? A group of residents of the Georgian town of Gori, Stalin's birthplace, think so. The former Soviet dictator is also their biggest idol and they are fighting for the return of his statue to the city centre. The film will be available from November, 2023.

Ten-year-old Tsotne Zedginidze is a talented pianist and composer from Georgia. The film offers not only a musical performance by the talented boy, but also a glimpse into his life, the environment he grows up in and his relationship with his grandmother Nina. She not only takes care of raising Tsotne and his sister, but also teaches him the piano and acts as his manager. The film is available from May 1, 2023.

How to live a good life with illness? This question is posed by Kateřina Rusinová and Ondřej Kopecký, pioneers of Czech palliative medicine at the VFN in Prague. Palliative care is all about life, and even if it is not long, it can still be good for a particular patient. It is just a matter of making the right decision.

A diverse community of contemporary Georgians live in a variety of apartments, houses, shelters and other buildings. Former teacher Sunny visits them and, as part of a sociological study, lets us listen to their thoughts, concerns and hopes about social, moral and political issues.