Doc Corner 2015

COMEBACK / Comeback
SK / 2014 / 85 min. / documentary

Time in one of Slovakia's most guarded prisons, where most of the prisoners return regularly, passes very slowly. Two recidivists evaluate their past and look into the future as the time of their release approaches. How does the whole process look and what awaits Zlatko and Miro outside of jail after many years? The story of repeat criminals' reintegration and being trapped in a vicious circle.

From a formal point of view, each story is surprising, be it the use of rotoscoping in the animated story Flying Horse from director Viera Čákanyová or the creation of a new “assembly-line-fi lm” in the story 86,400 from director Lukáš Kokeš or, for example, the original fusion of actors acting out the story-line intertwined with actual documentary scenes in the story Lída Baarová’s Virginity from director Petr Hátle.

This feature film was inspired by the famous bestselling book Gottland from journalist Mariusz Szczygiel.

SO FAR, SO NEAR / Tak ďaleko, tak blízko
SK / 2014 / 80 min. / documentary 

A look into the lives of people with autism while challenging generally held opinions in society about this developmental disorder. It is not, however, built on dialogue and testimony, but on specific, naturally occurring situations in which it contemplates the issues of familial and romantic love for people with autism.

A documentary about the extraordinary generation of Slovak photographers got together at FAMU in Prague at the beginning of the 1980s and enriched the fine art photography by unconventional energy, playfulness and unchained imagination.