Monday 14. 09.

Music Box

Music Box

SK, 2019, 5 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues

Director: Joanna Kozuch

There is one goal, many ways to reach it; the choice is up to us.

DJ Schmecky Schmecker

DJ Schmecky Schmecker

Concert

This multi-genre half pensioner from Senec is very happy when he can play vinyl records from his rich collection to people. He has been on stage with many famous figures of Slovak and foreign music scene. He is just like…

DJ René

DJ René

Concert

The person who will take care of the funky mood—DJ René—was DJing when today’s Slovak hip hop stars were born. Original sound and high-quality music. Come to enjoy his Funky-Soul-Just Good Music.

Yellow Rose

Yellow Rose

PH/US, 2019, 94 min.; en / sk tit

Director: Diane Paragas

Rose, an undocumented Filipino girl, dreams of one day leaving her small Texas town to pursue her country music dreams. Her world is shattered when her mom suddenly gets picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Rose, facing this new…

A Manifesto of Despise

Manifest pohŕdania

SK, 2019, 8 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Kristián Grupač

A classical story of a poet born anew comes into existence similarly to the birth of a poem—from the bubbling foamy blood, humiliation and, finally, from the utterance of the only word permanently sleeping under one’s tongue.

The March

Pochod

SK, 2018, 20 min.; sk, uk / en sub

Director: Michal Blaško

After an anonymous violent attack, a 13-year-old girl, Lucia, tells the police that she was attacked by three Roma men. The city’s inhabitants want to express their frustration, so they organize a “march against violence” in the support of the…

Fire Report

Požiarne hlásenie

SK, 2019, 16 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Katarína Jonisová

Humans instinctively avoid the unknown. The distance that we keep among ourselves results from the fear of the unknown. Elias Canetti says that in mass a person can be set free from the fear of the unknown. Andy Winson’s motivational…

R+J

R+J

SK, 2019, 6 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Martina Buchelová

The film talks about the love story that we all know. Juliet knows that she and Romeo are destined to be together. Romeo knows that he and Jessica are destined to be together.

Trust me

Ver mi

SK, 2019, 6 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Zlata Golecová

The hand cuts its nail and puts it into a flowerpot. While expecting a baby hand, to its surprise, something completely different appears—a baby foot. How will their relationship develop and what will happen?…

The Painted Bird

Nabarvené ptáče

CZ/SK/UA, 2019, 169 min.; cs, de, ru, la / sk tit

Director: Václav Marhoul

In order to protect their child from the mass killings of Jews, the young boy’s parents send their son to their relative living in the countryside in Eastern Europe. However, the boy’s aunt unexpectedly dies and the child is forced…

This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

LS, 2019, 120 min.; st / en sub / sk tit

Director: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

When her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to reservoir construction, an 80-year-old widow finds a new will to live and ignites the spirit of resilience within her community.

Talents of the Workshop AZYL 2020

Talenty workshopu AZYL 2020

SK, 2019, 60 min.; sk

Director: rôzni / various

Selection of Short Films.

Havel

Havel

CZ, 2020, 100 min.; cz

Director: Slávek Horák

The biographical film tells the story of one of the most significant figures in the Czechoslovak history from the dissident period, when Václav Havel was not a famous figure yet. “Don’t expect a portrait of the statesman,” promises director Slávek…

Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey

GB/US, 2019, 122 min.; en / cz tit

Director: Michael Engler

Downton Abbey is a perfect chronicle of the lives of the members of the British aristocracy and their servants in the first decades of the 20th century. The pressure of modern times directly contrasts with the environment, which is based…

Richard Jewell

Richard Jewell

US, 2019, 129 min.; en / sk tit

Director: Clint Eastwood

During the 26th Summer Olympics in Atlanta, American security guard Richard Jewell saved thousands of lives, discovering a backpack full of bombs and evacuating the stadium area before their explosion. Because of the unreliable and incomplete information concerning the case…

Motherless Brooklyn

Motherless Brooklyn

US, 2019, 144 min.; en / sk tit

Director: Edward Norton

A lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette ’s syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend only with the help of a few vague clues and his extraordinary memory. Gradually, he unravels closely-guarded secrets that hold…

Bacurau

Bacurau

BR/FR, 2018, 131 min.; pt, en / en sub / cz tit

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles

A few years from now… Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

Slalom

Slalom

FR/BE, 2020, 92 min.; fr / en sub / sk tit

Director: Charlène Favier

Under the guidance of a strict ex-champion, a promising fifteen-year-old girl trains to be a professional skiing star. Will she be able to endure the physical and emotional pressure?…

Bird Talk

Mowa ptaków

PL, 2019, 138 min.; pl / en sub / sk tit

Director: Xawery Żuławski

The script was written by Andrzej Żuławski and is his most contemporary story. It is about Poles and Poland and is concerned with what is happening here and now. It tells the story of brothers, couples and friends, all trying…

Pardon

Ułaskawienie

PL/CZ/SK, 2018, 100 min.; pl / sk tit

Director: Jan Jakub Kolski

The story of the mourning parents of a soldier, seen from the point of view of their seventeen-year-old grandson, Janek. The film is set in the dramatic memories of post-war Poland. Nevertheless, it has a unique motif—it focuses on the…

Clergy

Kler

PL, 2018, 135 min.; pl, it, cz / en sub / sk tit

Director: Wojciech Smarzowski

A few years ago, tragic events brought together the fates of three Catholic priests. Since then, they have been meeting every year to commemorate the anniversary of the tragedy. Their motivation, experience and experiences to serve as priests are extremely…

Hatred

Wołyń

PL, 2016, 150 min.; ru, yi, de, pl, uk / en sub / sk tit

Director: Wojciech Smarzowski

The story begins in 1939, taking place in a village in the Volhynia region inhabited by Ukrainians, Poles and Jews, just before the outbreak of the Second World War. A young Polish girl, Zosia Głowacka, falls in love with a…

Devil’s Worshipers

Uctievači diabla

SK, 2019, 53 min.; ar / sk tit

Director: Tomáš Davidov, Matej Šulc

The documentary follows the footsteps of the genocide of Yazidis in Iraq and Syria. It was there—in the Iraqi town of Sinjar—that in August 2014, a terrorist group of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) attacked the Yazidi religious minority. Their…

Crowds, Power and Happy Happyendings

Masa, moc a šťastné happyendy

SK, 2019, 68 min.; sk

Director: rôzni / various

As soon as there is a mass, it wants to multiply. The act of procreation, the correlation of upbringing, the acquisition of a universal voice. An individual in a mass loses his or her anxieties and inhibitions, happily dissolves in…