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- Oliver is a lonely forty-something working as an air traffic controller. He fills his empty life by watching TV and observing the family living in the house across the street - he regards them as an ideal of happiness. At first he just watches the family, but he gradually wants to learn more about them. He soon realizes that borders of one s private life are more fragile than they seem.
- The series follows Cyril and Methodius, two Byzantine Greek brothers born in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity and influenced the cultural development of the Great Moravian territory.
- Janette is terminally ill and wants to die in a dignified way but British laws do not allow it. She gets in touch with Dr. Erika in Switzerland, who is willing to help her. Muscular dystrophy, the illness that Janette suffers from, has affected her family for generations. Janette's mother was wheelchair bound for decades, becoming a prisoner in her own body. Janette refuses to wait for death in unbearable pain so she opts for physician-assisted suicide. Before leaving on her last journey from England to Switzerland, she has to explain her intention to her family members and close friends. Her son Simon has also inherited this illness and, therefore, has much more sympathy regarding her decision than his sister Bridget. If no cure for this illness is found, he will face the same decision process as his mother. Both children try to convince Janette to postpone her death. Do we own our life or does it own us?
- Interviews with military cooks from various European armies.
- Tereza - The CHrage of Love is an intimate feature-length documentary that reveals the deep relationship between a mother and her disabled child. The late Tereza Gasparikova, well-known translator and interpreter, speaks about her life, about sacrifice, about the love that constantly recharged her and about the cancer that blindsided her. Despite its seemingly serious subject matter, this is a film full of hope and optimism, thanks in no small part to the disabled Majka, who shrugs off her handicap and does her best to enjoy life to its fullest. We also sea Mrs. Gasparikova at work as an interpreter of the highest caliber.
- Three siblings, Martin (87) from Monaco, Theo (85) from Canada and Alessa (82) from the USA narrate the fascinating true-life story of their father L.E. Hudec (1893-1958), a famous architect in Shanghai. For the first time Alessa visits Slovakia the birthplace of her father. Together with her brother Theo, they decide to visit China after 63 years - the country of their childhood and youth. This inspired documentary not only explores the many exciting details of the life of L.E. Hudec, father of Asian high-rises, but also serves as an authentic testimony of life of Europeans in Colonial Shanghai before The People's Republic of China was formed. It presents the never-before-seen 16mm home-movies that were shot between 1927-1938 by Ladislav Hudec himself.
- A film about a formerly underground Slovak group of four artists, Jana Zelibska, Peter Meluzin, Milan Pagac and Viktor Oravec, curated by the late art historian Radislav Matustik.
- Blind, shy Mimi and restless, crazy Lisa discover the amazing worlds of neighbours in their house. Extraordinery friendship of these two girls brings a lot of adventures, but also opens hearts of people living in the house.
- Ladislav Kabos's documentary film capture transformations of modern architecture in Slovakia during the troubled twentieth century. It presents the 16 most important works from the origin of the Czechoslovakia to the present, reflecting the significant historical moments of the birth of modern Slovakia. The professional guarantor of the documentary is Henrieta Moravcikova, a scientist at the Institute of Building and Architecture SAV