Thursday 14. 09.
Thursday 14. 09. 11:00
Fontána CinemaTemporaries
Richelieu
FR/CA, 2023, 90 min.; fr, es / en sub / sk tit
Director: Pier-Philippe Chevigny
The Canadian-French film takes you among exploited seasonal migrant workers and their translator Ariane. However, she herself witnesses abuse in the workplace and must decide how far she is willing to go to stand up against injustice. A drama about…
Thursday 14. 09. 11:00
Cinema ClubFalcon 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…
Thursday 14. 09. 11:00
House of ArtsLillian
Lillian
AT, 2019, 128 min.; en, ru / en sub / sk tit
Director: Andreas Horvath
Lillian—an emigrant stranded in New York City—decides to walk back to her native Russia. She resolutely starts out on the long journey. A road movie straight across the USA into the freezing temperatures of Alaska. The chronicle of a slow…
Thursday 14. 09. 14:00
Fontána Cinema20,000 Species of Bees
20.000 especies de abejas
ES, 2023, 125 min.; es, eu, fr / en sub / sk tit
Director: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
An eight-year-old child struggles with the fact that people keep addressing her in confusing ways. During a summer in the Basque Country among the beehives, she explores her identity alongside the women of her family, who at the same time…
Thursday 14. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubLittle Joe
Little Joe
AT/GB/DE/FR, 2019, 101 min.; en / cz tit
Director: Jessica Hausner
Scientist Alice has developed a plant that is supposed to bring happiness to people. When she gives one to her son Joe, the reality turns out to be much scarier.
Thursday 14. 09. 17:00
Fontána CinemaThe Truth Is All There Is
Pravda je to najdôležitejšie
SK, 2023, 81 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Maroš Brázda
Eduard Grečner. Film director, dramaturge, publicist and poet. A talented filmmaker with precise artistic goals which, due to circumstances and the times, he was not always able to realise. Reflections on the ideological and aesthetic starting points he consecutively followed…
Thursday 14. 09. 17:00
House of ArtsAfire
Roter Himmel
DE, 2023, 103 min.; de / cz tit
Director: Christian Petzold
Leon and Felix‘s plan was to spend the summer together in a holiday home on the Baltic coast. They wanted to be there as friends but also to work—one on his second book, the other assembling his art portfolio. But…
Thursday 14. 09. 17:00
ArtaPower
Moc
HU/SK/CZ, 2023, 88 min.; hu, sk, cz, en / en sub
Director: Mátyás Prikler
The feature-length film Power is the second feature film directed by Mátyás Prikler. It deals with the theme of power and powerlessness in contemporary society. A hunting accident in which a man dies is the beginning of a story that…
Thursday 14. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubThe Trouble with Being Born
The Trouble with Being Born
AT/DE, 2020, 94 min.; de / en sub / sk tit
Director: Sandra Wollner
Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and…
Thursday 14. 09. 19:00
ElektrárňaSummerlight… and Then Comes the Night
Sumarljós og svo kemur nóttin
IS, 2022, 111 min.; is / cz tit
Director: Elfar Aðalsteins
Icelandic director Elfar Adalsteins made a drama about a sparsely populated village in Iceland, where all its inhabitants live far from each other. The geographic setup is ideal for this kind of quirky and sweet-natured ensemble about just how different…
Thursday 14. 09. 20:00
Fontána CinemaPhotophobia
Photophobia
SK/CZ/UA, 2023, 71 min.; ua / en sub / sk sub
Director: Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík
On a cold February morning, 12-year-old Niki and his family arrive at the Kharkiv metro station to take shelter from the terrifying war raging outside. For Niki’s family, daylight is synonymous with mortal danger, and the boy is not allowed…
Thursday 14. 09. 20:00
House of ArtsAnatomy of a Fall
Anatomie d'une chute
FR, 2023, 150 min.; fr, en, de / cz tit
Director: Justine Triet
The suggestive winner of this year’s Cannes Festival is part court drama, a portrait of privacy, an analysis of a crumbling marriage, and a story of coming-of-age difficulties. The charismatic German actress Sandra Hüller portrays in the film a writer…
Thursday 14. 09. 20:00
Cinema ClubSafe Place
Sígurno mjesto
HR, 2022, 103 min.; hr / en sub / sk tit
Director: Juraj Lerotić
A traumatic event creates a rift in the family’s everyday life. Their lives fundamentally change, as if they are waging a war invisible to everyone else. The source of the story is autobiographical, it is addressed in the film and…
Thursday 14. 09. 20:00
Spa CinemaRebel
Rebel
BE/LU/FR, 2022, 135 min.; ar, fr, en, nl / cz tit
Director: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
When Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, he leaves Belgium to help war victims in Syria. But, having arrived, he is forced to join a militia and is left stranded in Raqqa. Back home, his younger brother…
Thursday 14. 09. 20:30
ArtaStepne
Stepne
UA/DE/PL/SK, 2023, 117 min.; ua, ru / sk tit
Director: Maryna Vroda
The feature film Stepne was co-produced in Slovakia and tells the story of a few days in the life of a man who comes to a small Ukrainian village to take care of his dying mother. Once respected by his…
Thursday 14. 09. 20:30
KinematografSisu
Sisu
FI/UK, 2022, 91 min.; en, fi / cz tit
Director: Jalmari Helander
At the end of World War II, a lone gold prospector (Jorma Tommila) finds a rich vein of gold in the wilderness of Lapland in northern Finland. When he travels to the nearest town with the find, he encounters a…
Thursday 14. 09. 23:00
House of ArtsChimera
La Chimera
IT/FR/CH, 2023, 130 min.; it, en / cz tit
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
The adventurous, magical realism-influenced original work invites you to the environment of the black market with archaeological artifacts. Arthur, played by Josh O’Connor, nicknamed the Englishman, is a member of the Italian tombaroli gang of grave robbers. Together with others,…
Thursday 14. 09. 23:00
Fontána CinemaWolfkin
Kommunioun
LU, 2022, 90 min.; fr, lu / en sub / sk tit
Director: Jacques Molitor
Elaine, a single mother, is raising her son, Martin, who shows strange and uncontrollable behavior. When the boy bites one of his classmates, Elaine, desperate for answers, takes him to see his paternal grandparents. But there she discovers the true…
Thursday 14. 09. 23:00
Cinematik BarDJ DKO
DJ set, 120 min.
DKO is a DJ and Producer who comes from Martin, but has currently been working in Bratislava for a long time. His primary genres are HOUSE/TECHHOUSE/TECHNO, which he regularly plays in clubs and festivals all over Slovakia. Among the most…
Thursday 14. 09. 14:00
Cinematik BarIn touch with culture with Tomáš Bartoněk
Diskusia, 60 min.
A special edition of the daily program of Radio Devín live in front of the House of Arts in Piešťany. Host Tomáš Bartoněk will welcome to the festival studio Peter Konečný and other guests, with whom they will look into…
Thursday 14. 09. 15:00
Cinematik BarRadio Slovakia – Afternoon broadcast of Radio Slovakia
Diskusia, 60 min.
With the hosts of Radio Slovakia about films and the Cinematik Film Festival straight from the event. Live broadcast of Radio Slovakia.
Thursday 14. 09. 16:00
Cinematik BarRadio Devín In touch with culture at Cinematik with Mariana Jaremková
Diskusia, 90 min.
A discussion with the directors about film as material for historical research, film as an archive, and film as memory. The discussants will focus on subtopics such as the creation of film memory, storytelling with images, subject versus object in…
Thursday 14. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsA Sensitive Person
Citlivý člověk
CZ/SK, 2023, 120 min.; cz / en sub
Director: Tomáš Klein
Post-war Eastern Europe. Young Eliáš and his dad, both disguised as women, run to find Eliáš’s mother through a strangely dystopian landscape where people are filled only with frustration and fear. In order for the boy to keep his childhood…
Thursday 14. 09. 17:00
Spa CinemaMucha – The Story of an Artist Who Created a Style
Svět podle Muchy
CZ/DE/FR, 2020, 100 min.; cz, en, jp / cz tit
Director: Roman Vávra
The film presents the fate of one of the most famous Czech painters. The story of Alfons Mucha is told by his son Jiří, who, writing his fathers’s biography, comes to terms with his legacy and the question of why…