Saturday 16. 09.

Gold

Gold

AU, 2022, 97 min.; en / cz tit

Director: Anthony Hayes

Set amidst the vast, unique and unforgiving Australian desert is a gritty thriller about the greed that can cloud the human mind. How far can people go in their quest for immense wealth? Two strangers wander the Australian desert. Virgil…

Klondike

Klondike

UA/TR, 2022, 100 min.; ua, ru, ce, nl / cz tit

Director: Maryna Er Gorbach

The film by Ukrainian director and screenwriter Maryna Er Gorbach has had an extremely successful festival journey. The story takes us to the Ukrainian-Russian border in 2014, when a plane with almost 300 passengers on board was shot down. We…

SCHEEP – (AN)REAL STORI

OUCA – (NE)SKUTOčNí PRíBECH

SK, 2022, 79 min.; sk

Director: Peter Pavlík

Ľuboš is not like us. Ľuboš knows things, he has his own opinion and he does not trust the media, which are only interested in profit and will never write the truth. Ľuboš is one of the few who still…

Corsage

Corsage

AT/LU/DE/FR, 2022, 113 min.; de, en, fr, hu / cz tit

Director: Marie Kreutzer

Empress Elizabeth of Austria is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. In 1877 at Christmas, Empress turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.

The Cathedral

Katedrála

SK, 2022, 87 min.; es / sk tit

Director: Denis Dobrovoda

A Spanish monk, Justo Gallego, is expelled from his monastery at the age of 28 and decides to devote his life to God by building a cathedral in a forgotten village, Mejorada del Campo, on the outskirts of Madrid. Over…

Arved

Arvéd

CZ/SK, 2022, 120 min.; cz

Director: Vojtěch Mašek

How far are we willing to go to achieve our objectives? Doctor Arved Smíchovský to the borders of Hell itself. A Faustian tale based on true events.

Promising Young Woman

Promising Young Woman

US/UK, 2020, 113 min.; en / cz tit

Director: Emerald Fennell

Cassie was a promising young woman until everything changed for mysterious reasons. It seems that nothing in her life is as it seems: she is very clever, provocatively cunning and, on top of that, she lives a secret second life…

No Elements

Prázdna množina

SK, 2022, 25 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Barbara Vojtašáková

No Elements is an audiovisual dialogue between two young people, Michal and Tereza. Four years after the break-up they reflect back on their relationship through joint film footage. Gradually we discover what was the main reason for their breakup and…

Jane by Charlotte

Jane par Charlotte

FR/UK/JP, 2020, 90 min.; en / cz tit

Director: Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg’s directorial debut is a documentary portrait of her famous mother, the British actress, model and singer Jane Birkin living with France. The camera accompanies the daughter and her mother through concert halls, places of strong emotional value and…

Earwig

Earwig

GB/FR/BE, 2021, 114 min.; fr / en sub / sk tit

Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović

Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed. The telephone rings regularly and the Master enquires after Mia’s wellbeing.

Decision to Leave

Heojil kyolshim

KR, 2022, 138 min.; ko, zh / cz tit

Director: Park Chan-wook

Korean director Park Chan-wook became famous in 2003 with Old Boy, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes. At the same festival this year, he won the Directing Prize with his current release Decision to Leave, a mystery crime…

Eami

Eami

PY/AR/MX/US/DE/NL/FR, 2022, 83 min.; gn / cz tit

Director: Paz Encina

The word eami in the Ayoreo language, the language of the original population in the territory of today’s Paraguay and Bolivia, means forest. And the world. Eami is also the name of the main character, a girl who is expelled…

Leave No Traces

Żeby nie było śladów

PL/FR/CZ, 2021, 165 min.; pl / cz tit

Director: Jan P. Matuszyński

Poland, 1983. The country is shaken by the case of Grzegorz Przemyk, a high school student and son of opposition poet Barbara Sadowska, who is arrested by a militia patrol and brutally beaten. After two days of agony, Przemyk dies…

Last Night in Soho

Last Night in Soho

UK, 2021, 116 min.; en / cz tit

Director: Edgar Wright

Director Edgar Wright made a psychological thriller about a girl, Eloise, who comes to London to study fashion design. Her studies are fundamentally disrupted by disturbing night visions. In them, she travels back in time from the present to the…

Vortex

Vortex

FR/BE/MC, 2021, 142 min.; fr, en / cz tit

Director: Gaspar Noé

The psychological drama is the story of a husband and wife trying to cope with the stresses of old age. This time, Noé has abandoned his characteristic hypnotic visuals. However, he has creatively played with the image by dividing it…

Summer of life

Leto života

SK, 2021, 29 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Marek Celec

The documentary is a portrait of art photographer Viliam Rudnický, who, after twenty years, returns to photography to carry out his dream expo. At the same time, he is still taking pictures of nudes and trying to achieve a perfect…

At the Beginning of the End

Na začiatku konca

SK, 2022, 22 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Rebeka Bizubová

The documentary At the Beginning of the End opens up the topics of old age, love, and death. It offers the viewer a wide spectrum of knowing the relationship between mother and daughter in the final phase of their existence.

After the Wedding

Po svadbe

SK, 2022, 20 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Matej Kľúčik

A portrait of the relationship of toy collectors Ľubo and Janka, who after twelve years of cohabitation found themselves facing a life event—a wedding. The approaching commitment forces them to re-evaluate their lives and thus several “misunderstandings” about the future…

Music Videos as Film Art with Peter Konečný

Lecture

You know those chills when music and image work perfectly together and when the medium of film creates a sense of fulfillment? Do you love quality music and its extraordinary cinematic images? We take a look at music videos in…

Mariupol. (Un)lost Hope

Mariupol

UA, 2022, 90 min.; ua / sk tit

Director: Maksim Litvinov

The documentary follows the people who spent the first month of the invasion in the city of Mariupol.

DJ Tysker

DJ set

David Nemec aka TYSKER is a DJ and producer from Piešťany. Not everything in his life has always revolved around music. Until recently, he devoted himself to video production and worked for names such as Tove Lo, Axwell λ Ingrosso,…

Repulse

Hrana zlomu

CZ, 2021, 86 min.; cz / en sub

Director: Emil Křižka

Kateřina and Robert raise their young daughter in a luxurious villa but their household can hardly be called harmonious. The adult Viktor lives with his mother in a secluded, semi-dilapidated house, but their cohabitation is no healthier. The fates of…