Piussi Zuzana

Granny
55 years old Tamara is fed up with men of her own generation, whom she perceivesas constant bitter wiseacres deprived of all ideals in life. She posts an online ad:"Mature, slightly kinky female is searching for boys aged 17–30", and receives 650 responses… from then on she's been busy sorting out the responses, choosing boysto date and meeting up with them. Soon she realizes that she replaces their mother,sex teacher, soul healer. Documentary film about a Grandma, who has more than just the ageing process to come to terms with…

The Crying of Angels
With depth and sufficient scope of time, the film recounts several stories of homosexuas; intricate emotional situations they encounter in their day-to-day existence that can be defined as being in a permanent state of conflict with the society-imposed conventions, capturing its very personal dimension as well.

Wipe Out
Documentary film about swat team (special police unit).

Viktor-Homo Triumphalis
A short documentary about the young and dynamic manager and his world.

My Wehrmacht
Some people still believe that the Hitler´s army was the right one. But this film does not speak about political extremists. It shows a normal life of good citezens, who work, love their children, and feel good in Wehrmacht and SS uniforms.

Hero of Our Times
Hero of our Times, a film composed of three novels introduces an old intellectual and his disappearing world. The main character meets thee different women. The director has intended to show the inner world of famous Slovak film critic, his attitude and thoughts. Story about man, who feels lost in today's society as he watches how the thing he believed in are slipping away.

Koliba
Zuzana Piussi, the director, in the main role of a documentary crime story about the fate of Slovak cinema. Walking up the hill over Bratislava, which used to house the Slovak National Film Studios – Koliba, she reveals fragments of the controversial truth, absurd half-truths and well-kept secrets and lies about the breakdown of and fraud made on the “family silver”, Slovak cinema. It is the first attempt to explore the problem that, for years, has not been resolved in the Slovak cultural environment.

Myslím, tedy slam

Stoka

Bezbožná krajina

Disease of the Third Power
A political documentary about black holes in the Slovak judiciary system and about the state of law in Slovakia. The film from the backstage of the Slovak judiciary system also stands as an essay about a very peculiar form of power that effaces itself in order to adopt a new name later - justice.

Men of Revolution
The newest movie of Slovak documentarist Zuzana Piussi is a mosaic of subjective perspectives of former revolutionaires – direct participants and and faces of the Velvet revolution. Piussi decided to explore the memories of men who played significant roles in the new history of our country through their personal point of view at the events before, during and after ‘89 and first elections in ‘90. She brings extraordinary picture of revolution changes as it was perceived that time and now. After twenty years, Piussi tried to gather as wide spectrum of witnesses and to demythed the course of events as possible.

Chicken Love
Chiken wings are the typical American dish and are extremely popular across the United States. The picture tell a story of Matt Reynolds and bunch of his friends on a quest for the perfect chiken wings.

Fragile Identity
In Fragile Identity, Slovak director Zuzana Piussi examines her fellow countrymen’s current notions of nationality. She expresses her concern that Slovak national sentiment is rather fragile and liable to political misuse. The protagonists often reject the leading Czech figures of Czechoslovak history and prefer to look for their roots in the common “pre-national“ past of Great Moravia. Although many of the stories are rather tragicomic, the turbulent developments in the EU have shown that the search for one’s own identity is a sensitive matter not only in Slovakia.

Zuzana Piussi was born in 1971 in Bratislava. Since 1992 stage and costume designer for, amongst others, the Stoka theater in Bratislava. In 1999 she wrote her own theatre show Modna prehliadka, enlisting the cooperation of L. Burgr and I. Hrubanicova. In 2000 she founded the Free Association for Contemporary Opera, together with L. Burgr. She wrote the libretti for the operas John King (2001) and Tete-a-tete (2002) and was also responsible for costumes and stage design. Studied the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava (VSMU), Faculty of Film and Television. Her first documentary film Výmet was awarded the Main Prize at the Beirut IFF in 2003. She directed more documentaries - Bezbožná krajina (2004), Anjeli plačú (2005), Myslím, tedy slam (2008), Babička (Granny, 2008), Hrdina našich čias (2009) and Koliba (2009).

Wipe out (2003), Godless Country (2004), Crying of Angels (2005), Granny (2008), Hero Of Our Time (2009), Koliba/Shelter story (2009), Disease Of The Third Power (2011), Men of the revolution (2012).