Today is the best day! Winners don’t make excuses! Every cloud has a silver lining… Social media is full of foolproof guides on how to be infinitely happy and obscenely rich. But what happens when you take this advice seriously and actually start following it? That’s exactly what the satirical comedy Ovce žerou první (Sheep Eat First) is about — it takes aim at the phenomenon of self-improvement and the cult of motivational speakers. And it’s also about Dušan — a man who, in his quest for a “better self,” decides to follow all the mantras of success and become a lion among sheep… Or at least a sheep that eats first.

Having lost their jobs due to a Soviet takeover of Lithuanian Television in 1991, its employees declare a hunger strike in protest. Initial enthusiasm is slowly replaced by frustration about a single question – how long can they hold physical and emotional hunger?

A feature film depicting the critical 24 hours in the life of the famous Slovak figure skater Ondrej Nepela; intense and intimate personal drama of a young man, who, after years of dutiful representation of his totalitarian homeland longs to leave the golden cage of Czechoslovakia and become free. He wants to live and love without fear, that the revelation of his sexual orientation will make him a deviant and destroy everything he dedicated his life to. However, the regime strengthens its pressure on him in the moment of his highest vulnerability, using the dirtiest methods to make Ondrej conform to its cruel ultimatum.

David takes his two children on holiday to the Adriatic Sea, hoping to hold their fractured bilingual family together. His 17-year-old daughter, Klára, struggling with an eating disorder, falls in love with a local boy, Denis. When he is accused of murder, David rushes the children back home. Klára’s condition spirals, landing her in hospital. The only thing uniting her parents is their need to save her. And desperate times call for desperate measures.