Friday 15. 09.

Nightline

Promlčeno

CZ, 2022, 95 min.; cz

Director: Robert Sedláček

A film thriller starring Karel Roden, in which he uncovers an ancient and almost forgotten crime. The protagonist embarks on a journey of revenge and a shocking revelation awaits everyone his story touches. The film raises the topic of time-barred…

Mothering Sunday

Mothering Sunday

GB, 2021, 104 min.; en / sk tit

Director: Eva Husson

On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother’s Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret…

EO

EO

PL/IT, 2022, 86 min.; pl / en sub / cz tit

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly…

Trančík

Trančík

SK, 2022, 61 min.; sk

Director: Erik Praus

What moral responsibility does an artist have to other people and to himself? This is one of the many questions asked by the Slovak director, Dušan Trančík, in the documentary film. Through his films and reflections, we return to the…

House in the Fields

Tigmi Nigren

MA/QA, 2017, 86 min.; zgh / sk tit

Director: Tala Hadid

A documentary film recording life in the relatively isolated Amazigh community in the High Atlas region mainly follows two growing-up women, sisters—the older one is to get married and leave for Casablanca at the end of the summer, while the…

Gentle

Szelíd

HU, 2022, 92 min.; hu / en sub / cz tit

Director: László Csuja, Anna Nemes

Edina, a female bodybuilder, is ready to sacrifice everything for the dream she shares with Adam, her partner and trainer: to win the World Championship. The odd love she finds on her way there makes her see the difference between…

The Eight Mountains

Le otto montagne

IT/BE/FR, 2022, 147 min.; it / cz tit

Director: Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch

The Cannes Jury Prize this year went to Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch for The Eight Mountains, based on Paolo Cognetti’s bestseller of the same name. It’s a film about friendship, majestic mountains and what really matters in life.

Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories

UK, 2017, 98 min.; en / cz tit

Director: Andy Nyman, Jeremy Dyson

Sceptical professor Phillip Goodman is in the business of debunking seemingly supernatural events. But three unexplained cases fall into his hands, and the moment he begins to solve them, he finds himself caught in a terrifying spiral of horror. Just…

The Woodcutter Story

Metsurin tarina

FI/NL/DK/DE, 2022, 95 min.; fi / sk tit

Director: Mikko Myllylahti

Pepe the woodcutter’s life in his idyllic Finnish village is torn apart over the course of a few days, but he is seemingly fine with it all. As though he knows some profound truth about existence.

One Second

Yi miao zhong

CN/HK, 2020, 104 min.; zh / ???

Director: Yimou Zhang

China during the Cultural Revolution. A prisoner escapes from a labour camp. In search of a stolen roll of film on which his long-lost daughter appears, he risks everything—for one second. Soon he stumbles upon a little thief, an orphaned…

Family Dinner

Family Dinner

AT, 2022, 97 min.; de / en sub / sk tit

Director: Peter Hengl

Tired of feeling down about her weight, plus-sized 15-year-old Simi heads to her aunt Claudia’s house for Easter weekend. Claudia is a popular nutritionist best-seller author and Simi hopes she will help her. What should have been a nice holiday…

The Passengers of the Night

Les Passagers de la Nuit

FR, 2022, 111 min.; fr / cz tit

Director: Mikhaël Hers

French drama The Passengers of the Night premiered in the main competition at this year’s Berlinale. Writer and director Mikhaël Hers built the film mainly on the acting mastery of Charlotte Gainsbourg and a subtle family story. We are transported…

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Valerie a týden divů

CS, 1970, 73 min.; cz / en sub

Director: Jaromil Jireš

This exquisite and amazing film from 1970 belongs to that group of surrealist Czechoslovakian films such as those of Juraj Herz or Jan Švankmajer. Beautiful, erotic, dreamlike, enigmatic, disturbing… Valerie is a “coming of age” story like no other, and…

De Natura

De natura

RO/FR, 2018, 6 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues

Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović

Two little girls are walking through the woods, far away from the adult world. Joy is gradually replaced by nostalgia. Just as day inevitably turns to night, so will childhood be gone one day.

Jean-Pierre’s Mouth

La bouche de Jean-Pierre

FR, 1996, 50 min.; fr / en sub / sk tit

Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović

Modern-day France. One night, little Mimi helplessly watches her mother try to commit suicide. As she slowly recovers in hospital her aunt Solange takes the little girl to her house. But, from the first night on, Mimi’s sleep is disturbed…

Nectar

Nectar

FR, 2014, 18 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues

Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović

A round chamber in a park, where five women perform a ritual they know well. The queen gives her nectar initiating a new cycle……

The Story of Investigation and Discussion by the Editors of aktuality.sk

Screening of 3 films and discussion

Countdown – The Last Film of Ivan Palúch

Odpočítavanie – Posledný film Ivana Palúcha

SK, 2022, 80 min.; sk

Director: Martin Palúch

A film about one of the most important personalities of Slovak acting—the actor Ivan Palúch. In 1969, Ivan Palúch starred in three feature films screened at the highly prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Two of them were in the main feature…

Fallgrapp

Concert

Fallgrapp is a Slovak music group that captivatingly combines electronics with acoustic instruments, string trio and female vocals. In terms of genre, they move between styles such as organic electronics, downtempo, trip hop and alternative pop.

The Word

Slovo

CZ/SK/PL, 2020, 100 min.; cz

Director: Beata Parkanová

A psychological family drama set in Czechoslovakia in the period between May 1968 and 1969 is an intense look into the lives of husband and wife, Václav and Věra, who go through socio-political and personal upheavals together and try not…

Occupation

Okupace

CZ, 2021, 98 min.; cz / en sub

Director: Michal Nohejl

One night, one bar. A sleepy party of actors after their performance is interrupted by the visit of an uninvited guest. A very drunk Russian officer came to sell a canister of army gasoline, but the deal turns into a…

DJ Yanko Král

DJ set

DJ Yanko Král is a Slovak hip-hop disc jockey, former member of the group H16. In the group, he was a concert DJ and his scratches can also be found on the H16 albums. He is the author of mixtapes:…