Thursday 14. 09.

Temporaries

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…

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…

Lillian

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…

20,000 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…

Little 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.

The 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…

Afire

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…

Power

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…

The 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…

Summerlight… 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…

Photophobia

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…

Anatomy 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…

Safe 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…

Rebel

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…

Stepne

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…

Sisu

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…

Chimera

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,…

Wolfkin

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…

DJ 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…

In 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…

Radio 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.

Radio 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…

A 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…

Mucha – 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…