directed and written by: MARTIN PIGA
dop: MAREK MOUČKA
producer: TEREZA TOKÁROVÁ (cinepunkt)
co-producer: NATÁLIA PAVLOVÉ (other stories)
festivals pitching forums:
East Doc Platform 2025
IDFA Project Showcase 2025
DocBarcelona Pro – New Tech Forum 2026
awards:
HBO award
DOCSXS award
synopsis:
Parallel Space is a documentary exploring alternatives to state power in a time of institutional collapse. Director Martin Piga, disillusioned by broken democratic promises in post-communist Slovakia, sets out to investigate whether true autonomy is possible – beyond protest, beyond reform. Guided by crypto-anarchist Pavol Lupták, the film follows digital nomads, voluntarists, and decentralist thinkers building parallel structures outside traditional authority. Interwoven with philosophical insights, historical resistance, and the imagery, the film challenges the idea that the state is the only way to organize society. Is this the rise of a new social order – or just another utopia destined to fail? Parallel Space invites audiences into a deeply reflective journey across the borders of power, identity, and freedom.