Wednesday 10. 09.

Presentation of the Headliners of the Programme of the 20th Cinematik Festival

Discussion, 90 min.

How the programme of the anniversary edition of Cinematik came to life. How the first film discoveries were made and how the complex selection of titles for the 20th edition was prepared. Programme team member Peter Konečný will present the…

Everyone Needs Their Tribe

Každý potrebuje svoj kmeň

SK, 2025, 54 min.; sk

Director: Pavol Barabáš

At the end of the known world, where maps end and time flows differently, life pulsates according to ancient rules. Two friends leave behind the certainties of the 21st century and embark on a dangerous journey to the heart of…

Two Prosecutors

Zwei Staatsanwälte

FR/DE/NL/LV/RO/LT/UA, 2025, 117 min.; ru, uk / cz tit

Director: Sergei Loznitsa

The year is 1937. When a letter from one of the political prisoners manages to get past the strict rules and ends up on the desk of young prosecutor Kornev, it sets off a series of revelations about corruption and…

Eastern Anthems

Eastern Anthems

CA/US/EC, 2024, 78 min.; en, fr, es / en sub / sk tit

Director: Matthew Wolkow, Jean-Jacques Martinod

An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialogue between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the American Great Eastern Brood X of periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years, invoking a…

The Sense of Violence

The Sense of Violence

KR, 2025, 114 min.; ko, en / en sub / sk tit

Director: Kim Mooyoung

The film traces the trajectory of cinema by uncovering the specific intersections shared within the historical context of “anti-communist art” during the Park Chung-hee regime (1970s). In particular, the censorship of anti-communist film imagery by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency…

Best of AZYL Shorts 2024

Best of AZYL Shorts 2024

SK, 2024, 60 min.; rôzne / various

Director: rôzni / various

Come and enjoy some cinematic bites! The AZYL SHORTS Festival of Short Films brings its one-hour best-of selection from last year to Cinematik, featuring screenings of 1-minute and 5-minute films and music videos from around the world submitted to the…

September 5

September 5

DE/US, 2024, 95 min.; en, de, he / cz tit

Director: Tim Fehlbaum

It was supposed to be a normal day of broadcasting from the 1972 Munich Olympics. Young and ambitious television producer Geoff is trying to put together ABC’s sports broadcast so that his boss, legendary producer Roone Arledge, has no objections.

The Ice Tower

La tour de glace

FR/DE, 2025, 117 min.; fr / en sub / sk tit

Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović

Colder than ice, her kiss pierces the heart… The 1970s. Jeanne, a young girl on the run from home, falls under the spell of Cristina, a mysterious actress and star of the film The Snow Queen, which is being shot…

Lollipop

Lollipop

UK, 2024, 100 min.; en / sk tit

Director: Daisy-May Hudson

Molly’s all heart, fire, and passion. She’s made more mistakes than she can count, but now risks losing the ones she loves. Sometimes she doesn’t think she has the strength to be a woman, but she doesn’t give up. And…

Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass

Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass

UK/PL/DE, 2024, 76 min.; pl / en sub / sk tit

Director: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay

A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, to visit his dying father in a remote Galician sanatorium. Upon arrival, Jozef finds the sanatorium entirely moribund and run by the dubious Doctor Gotard who tells…

The Complex Forms

The Complex Forms

IT, 2024, 74 min.; it / en sub / sk tit

Director: Fabio D’Orta

Somewhere in the woods of the Italian countryside there is an ancient villa. Desperate people whose everyday lives have reached a dead end come here for a reason. The villa offers a way out. In exchange for a decent sum…

Father

Otec

SK/CZ/PL, 2025, 103 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Tereza Nvotová

Inspired by true events, the story follows a loving father. His life falls apart after a single tragic mistake shatters his happy marriage and leaves him completely alone. Despite the threat of prison and unbearable guilt, he tries to regain…