Wednesday 13. 09.

Falcon Lake

Falcon Lake

FR/CA, 2022, 100 min.; fr, en / sk tit

Director: Charlotte Le Bon

Shy thirteen-year-old Bastien arrives with his parents for a summer vacation at Falcon Lake, where he meets Chloé, a girl three years older than him. An unequal relationship develops between them, which vaguely balances between romance and manipulation. On the…

Lourdes

Lourdes

AT/FR/DE, 2009, 99 min.; fr / en sub / sk tit

Director: Jessica Hausner

Christine has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she makes a journey to Lourdes—the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees mountains. She wakes up one morning seemingly cured by…

The Beasts

As bestas

ES/FR, 2022, 137 min.; es, gl, fr / en sub / sk tit

Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen

Antoine and Olga are a French couple that settled down, some time ago, in a small village, in inland Galicia (Spain). There, they lead a peaceful life, although coexisting with the local people isn’t as idyllic as they would like.

Amour fou

Amour fou

AT/LX/DE, 2014, 92 min.; de / cz tit

Director: Jessica Hausner

Berlin, the beginning of the 19th century. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to…

The (Ex)perience of Love

Le syndrome des amours passées

BE/FR, 2023, 89 min.; fr / en sub / sk tit

Director: Ann Sirot, Raphaël Balboni

Rémy and Sandra are unable to have a child as they suffer from “Past Love Syndrome.” In order to be cured, they only have one solution: they have to sleep once again with each and every one of their past…

Blix Not Bombs

Blix Not Bombs

CZ/DE/SE, 2023, 83 min.; en, se / sk tit

Director: Greta Stocklassa

Greta had just turned 8 years old when she watched the unfolding of 9/11 on her TV in Stockholm. In the following months and years, she saw her fellow countryman, the diplomat Hans Blix, become a major player in the…

The Kingdom Exodus

Riget

DK, 2022, 5 x 60 min.; dk, se, en / cz tit

Director: Lars von Trier

The Kingdom, a mysterious hospital built on a site where once there were only wetlands. Doctors here wrestle daily with the limits of medicine and their own colleagues. Swedes curse Danes here, and mystery and horror mix with exaggeration and…

Perfect Days

Perfect Days

JP/DE, 2023, 123 min.; jp, en / cz tit

Director: Wim Wenders

Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine, he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them.

The Idiots

Idioterne

DK/FR/NL/IT, 1998, 112 min.; dk / cz tit

Director: Lars von Trier

The Danish film The Idiots, subtitled Idiot film about idiots for idiots, has been provoking audiences since the day of its premiere. Shortly after its completion and screening at the Festival de Cannes, film critics and the public were divided…

Fallen Leaves

Kuolleet lehdet

FI/DE, 2023, 81 min.; fi / cz tit

Director: Aki Kaurismäki

Holappa works as a construction worker, lives in a hostel, and chases away his sorrows with excessive alcohol consumption. Ansa works a poorly paid job in a supermarket and returns to an empty apartment in the evening, where news of…

Sisi & I

Sisi & Ich

DE/CH/AT, 2023, 132 min.; de / en sub / sk tit

Director: Frauke Finsterwalder

Late in the 19th century, Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary—known as Sisi—is living in an aristocratic women-only commune in Greece. Countess Irma is sent there to be Sisi’s companion, and she is captivated by the eccentric and…

Babylon

Babylon

US, 2022, 189 min.; en / sk tit

Director: Damien Chazelle

The wildest place on Earth. A place where stars rise and fall again. Hollywood. The story of a man on top, a girl who climbs to the top, and a boy who passed by. Three stories make up Damien Chazelle’s…

Eismayer

Eismayer

AT/DE, 2022, 87 min.; de, ba / en sub / sk tit

Director: David Wagner

Sergeant Major Eismayer is known and feared as the toughest training officer in the Austrian Armed Forces, ruthless with recruits and unwavering in his discipline, order and macho toughness. But when he starts to fall in love with Falak, a…

The Night of the Hunter

The Night of the Hunter

US, 1955, 92 min.; en / sk tit

Director: Charles Laughton

A tall handsome “preacher”—his knuckles eerily tattooed with LOVE and HATE—roams the countryside, spreading the gospel… and leaving a trail of murdered women in his wake. To Reverend Harry Powell, the work of the Lord has more to do with…

DJ Daniu

DJ set, 120 min.

daniu is a DJ and producer who got behind the mixer during the lockdown. His groovy selection will take you through the vibrations of afrobeat, house, amapiano and baile funk, but also everything that flows in between.

Masterclass – Miro Šifra

MasterClass, 60 min.

Interview with Slovak screenwriter Miro Šifra about creation and creative writing. He is the author of the screenplay for the film We Have Never Been Modern, which opened the 18th edition of Cinematik. How he works, why he chooses specific…

Critical thinking in creative film advertising

Prednáška, 60 min.

The world of advertising, too, offers high-quality short film ideas that will make you think and reflect on their points. In a quick overview of creativity, Peter Konečný will look at advertising as a remarkable way of processing small stories…

A Happy Man

Šťastný človek

SK/CZ, 2023, 81 min.; en, cz, sk, se / en sub / cz tit

Director: Soňa G. Lutherová

The intimate story of a man who has discovered his true self and must risk what is most precious in order to live authentically.

Brutal Heat

Brutální vedro

SK/CZ, 2023, 75 min.; cz / en sub

Director: Albert Hospodářský

In a world threatened by a solar fragment hurtling towards Earth, an eighteen-year-old boy gets stranded on his way to a friend’s cottage in an unfamiliar small town. A series of bizarre adventures force him to confront his greatest fears—coming…