Robert Roth

Hostage

Tragicomic family film about the world of children heroes - particularly the son of a local communist officer and his friend, a little hostage of the regime, whose parents emigrated to the West, few years before "Prague Spring" and the occupation of Czechoslovakia. Camaraderie, the first big discoveries of love, enemy gang fights and naive ideas are confronted with the reality of adult's world. The film is about the first contacts with bizarre and absurd reality of relationships and attitudes of adults, politics, emigration, but also betrayal and death and about how all those things form and transform the lives of small boys, who are forced to grow up too quickly.

Free the Chickens

A chicken rescue mission gone wrong leads the activists into a dangerous wilderness where they experience situations that lead to new insights such as, nature is not a safe place for animals.

The Third Dragon

Schoolboys discover that if sitting in a certain rocky cliff area in the forest, they can memorize anything they read there for exams the following day. Turns out the rocky cliff has a cave in which they make an incredible discovery.

Voda čo ma drží nad vodou

Nina

A 12 year old swimming star becomes the emotional casualty of her parents acrimonious separation, in this powerful coming of age story about youth rebelliously standing up to the cruelties and immaturities of adulthood.

Miracle

Ela, 15, has a love affair, which results in her being sent to a re-education center.

Two Syllables Behind

Zuzana is an attractive and likable art student who works alongside her studies because she would like to start a life of her own. Like many young people, she is trying to find what would fulfill her, what she would like to do, find out who she would like to live with. She runs away from one lover in Bratislava to another in Paris, she is at work when she should be at school, she sleeps when she should be at home, she travels the world. She simply often feels two syllables behind. And not just literally when working in dubbing, but figuratively in his own life.

True Štúr

The film takes place during one January night in Modra in 1856. The main character is the mysterious Samuel Hronský (Robert Roth), a character created by the filmmakers. Hronský comes to Modra to attend Štúr's funeral. He cannot understand why his friend died so unexpectedly. He decides to find out if someone took him from this world. In addition to a lot of unexpected information, Hronský manages to discover during one freezing night that...

Guzzling Mouth

Under the burden of poverty, the lonely peasant is visited by a mysterious man, which sets up a series of frightful events that lead the farmer on the paths of desperation, insanity, and alcoholism..

Not the Wound but the Scar

A vampire drifts through empty rooms, mirrors, and stages a figure caught between performance and disappearance. More ghost than man, more ritual than story, his presence becomes an essay on identity, silence, and the impossibility of reflection.