Tereza Nvotová’s The Lust for Power (Mečiar, 2017)

Vol. 79 (November 2017) by Zoe Aiano
Tereza Nvotová opens up a subjectivist perspective on Slovak politics.

György Kristóf’s Out (Vychladnutie, 2017)

Vol. 77 (September 2017) by Zoe Aiano
György Kristóf's debut gets tangled up in clicheed depictions of the Wild East.

Robert Kirchhoff’s A Hole in the Head (2016)

Vol. 75 (May 2017) by Jack Page
Kirchhoff’s documentary essay about the Romani holocaust stresses the right to resist the erasure of traumatic artifacts.

Jan Hřebejk’s The Teacher (Ucitelka, 2016)

Vol. 74 (April 2017) by Julia Zelman
Julia Zelman reviews this film about a Communist-era teacher who uses her position to exact favors from her students' families.

Tereza Nvotová’s Filthy (Špína, 2017)

Vol. 74 (April 2017) by Konstanty Kuzma
Tereza Nvotová takes on the sensitive issue of rape.

Mira Fornay’s My Dog Killer (Môj pes Killer, 2015) & Radu Jude’s Aferim! (2015)

Vol. 64 (April 2016) by Colette de Castro
Colette de Castro discusses discrimination against Roma children through an analysis of My Dog Killer and Aferim!.

Martin Ťapák’s Pacho, Brigand of Hybe (Pacho, hybský zbojník, 1975)

Vol. 51 (March 2015) by Nicholas Hudáč
Nicholas Hudáč analyzes Martin Ťapák’s 1975 comedy against the background of Czechoslovak tensions in the cultural sphere.

Ivan Ostrochovský’s Koza (2015)

Vol. 50 (February 2015) by Konstanty Kuzma
An ex-boxer steps into the ring again to pay for his wife’s abortion.

Štefan Uher’s The Sun in a Net (Slnko v sieti, 1963)

Vol. 46 (October 2014) by Nicholas Hudáč
Nicholas Hudáč examines how Štefan Uher adopts Czechoslovak identity in his pre-New Wave pic The Sun in a Net.

Juraj Lehotský’s Miracle (Zázrak, 2013)

Vol. 40 (April 2014) by Julia Zelman
This filmic panoply of horror reveals Juraj Lehotský's ambition to make cinema a means to plunge into Slovakia’s imagined depths of misery and keep breathing.
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