Saturday 16. 09.

Andy Warhol – The American Dream

Andy Warhol – americký sen

SK, 2023, 108 min.; sk, en / en sub

Director: Ľubomír Ján Slivka

Documentary film about the life and work of one of the world’s greatest artists with roots in the eastern Slovak village of Miková. The intimate story of Andy’s family, making his mark on the New York art scene, gaining world…

Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light

Tonda, Slávka a kouzelné světlo

CZ/SK/HU, 2023, 82 min.; sk dub

Director: Filip Pošivač

Eleven-year-old Tony has a unique characteristic—he has been glowing since birth. His overprotective parents try to keep him at home to protect him from the outside world. When the mysterious Shelly moves into their house before Christmas break, Tony’s world…

The Bloody Lady

Krvavá pani

CS, 1980, 74 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues

Director: Viktor Kubal

A young and beautiful countess loves life. Both noble suitors and forest animals compete in showing their true affection to her. One day as a storm breaks out in the forest, she gets lost. Exhausted to the point of death…

Blaga’s Lessons

Urotcite na Blaga

BG/DE, 2023, 114 min.; bg / en sub / sk tit

Director: Stephan Komandarev

When a retired, recently widowed teacher falls prey to a phone scam, she’s left robbed of her life savings and without any money for her late husband’s grave. Her life turns upside down when she realizes that there’s no way…

The Shift

Turnus

SK, 2022, 68 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Jaro Vojtek

Shift depicts the lives of people who have to travel back home after working hard on their week-long work shifts through the fates of three characters—a truck driver, a care-worker in Austria and a group of manual workers. The film…

Side Effects & Risks

Risiken & Nebenwirkungen

AT, 2021, 92 min.; de / en sub / sk tit

Director: Michael Kreihsl

A routine check-up reveals that the Pilates trainer Kathrin is suffering from kidney disease and needs a transplant. Her husband Arnold is a successful architect in the middle of a large project and is afraid of donating one of his…

Connected

Connected

SK, 2022, 9 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues

Director: Peter S. Kološ

Young girl travels to school by the sea using her futuristic vehicle. She does this on a daily basis. This time, however, the battery in her device is critically low and she needs to stop as soon as possible. She…

Standing Still

Nablízku

SK, 2022, 26 min.; sk, hu / en sub

Director: Monika Mahútová

27-year-old Anna lives with her mother Hana in a small town near the Slovak-Hungarian border. Anna has dreams that will never come true as long as she stays there, living with her mother. Hana, as a woman who has experienced…

Homeland of Silence

Ticho na poli

SK, 2022, 27 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Štefánia Lovasová

After the recent attacks in a small Eastern Slovak village, everyone stops talking to Ivanka, as if she was the one who caused the conflicts. Looking for modesty in people and in relationships, Ivanka discovers the odd feeling of losing…

Dinner for 2, Breakfast for 1

Večera pre 2, Raňajky pre 1

SK, 2022, 5 min.; sk, en / en sub

Director: Kristína Žilinčárová

A young woman who craves for more recounts the story of a special dinner. A film about eating and female desire that genre-wise oscillates between fashion film, horror, video clip, and drama.

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…

Young Film Talents of the Workshop Azyl 2023

Mladé filmové talenty Workshopu Azyl 2023

SK, 2023, 60 min.; sk

Director: rôzni / various

The participants of the AZYL FILM WORKSHOPS had the opportunity to make their own short films under the guidance of professional lecturers. During five days, they tried almost all positions in the production of an audiovisual work. Come and watch…

The Miracle Club

The Miracle Club

UK, 2023, 91 min.; en / sk tit

Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan

The joyful pilgrimage journey of a group of riotous working-class women from Dublin to Lourdes, France, leads them to discover each other’s friendship and their own personal miracles.

The Blue Caftan

Le bleu du caftan

FR/MA/BE/DK, 2022, 122 min.; ar / cz tit

Director: Maryam Touzani

A Moroccan clothing shop is the setting for an unexpected love triangle in a subtle and fragile story about the different forms of love. Mina and her husband Halim run a traditional clothing shop with kaftans in Morocco. Mina handles…

Pianoforte

Pianoforte

PL, 2023, 89 min.; pl, en, zh, it, ru / en sub / sk tit

Director: Jakub Piątek

Young pianists take part in the legendary International Chopin Piano Competition. A unique chance of a lifetime, portrayed from backstage and set to Chopin’s music.

Suzume

Suzume no Tojimari

JP, 2022, 122 min.; jp / cz tit

Director: Makoto Šinkai

A modern adventure anime road movie where 17-year-old Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from another world appearing in abandoned places to prevent devastating disasters all over Japan. On the way to complete this mission, she must face…

Moneyboys

Moneyboys

AT/FR/DE/TW, 2021, 120 min.; zh / en sub / sk tit

Director: C.B. Yi

Fei makes a living in the big city working as a hustler. His world collapses when he realizes that his family accepts his money but not his homosexuality. Broken-hearted, Fei struggles to create a new beginning in his life.

White Plastic Sky

Müanyag égbolt

HU/SK, 2023, 111 min.; hu / sk tit

Director: Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó

By 2123, fertile land will disappear from the face of the Earth. Flora and fauna will be extinct. Just before the total catastrophe, scientists develop an extremely nutritious plant, but one that can only grow in the human body. The…

Inshallah a Boy

Inshallah walad

JO/FR/SA/QA, 2023, 113 min.; ar / en sub / sk tit

Director: Amjad Al Rasheed

Jordan, nowadays. After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal, 30s, has to fight for her part of the inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.

2551.01 “The Kid”

2551.01 “The Kid”

AT, 2021, 65 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues

Director: Norbert Pfaffenbichler

A punk rock homage to silent cinema. The first instalment in the intended “dystopic slapstick film” trilogy is set in an underground world of passageways, sewers, bunkers, and dark cellars. The world without windows, without daylight, without hope. Literally everyone…

DJ Bali G

DJ set, 120 min.

Having lived for years at the centre of a vibrant Scottish and Dutch club scenes, Bali G had his musical aesthetic formed by venues with rich history such as Glasgow’sSubclub, La Cheetah or Berkley Suite, and Amsterdam’s De School, while…

Peter Juhás

Koncert, 60 min.

Peter Juhás is a songwriter from Lučenac, whose songs are characterized by energy, life and singing melodies. You can recognize him from larger or smaller stages, some city streets or television screens. In 2019, he placed 4th in The Voice…

Architecture Tour of the house of arts

Komentovaná prehliadka, 90 min.

Dom umenia (the House of Arts), where the main program of the Cinematik Festival takes place, is an exceptionally well-preserved monument of modern architecture. We invite you to a tour of this brutalist structure by Ferdinand Milučký with the commentary…

The Storyboards Phenomenon – illustrations that will turn into a film

Diskusia, 60 min.

Part of this year’s Cinematik visual is visual communication based on storyboard stories. A storyboard consists of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualizing a film, animation, motion graphics, or interactive media sequence. The storyboard process…

Vertigo Live – live recording of the SME daily’s film podcast

Diskusia, 60 min.

Juraj Malíček and Peter Konečný in a live recording of the Vertigo podcast, which brings many reviews of films and series every Saturday. If you are thinking about what movie you should go to see (or what not to see)…

Restore Point

Bod obnovy

CZ/SK, 2023, 118 min.; cz / en sub

Director: Robert Hloz

In 2041, when humanity uses very advanced technologies, the constitution guarantees all citizens the right to “one whole life”. After an unnatural death, such as a car accident or a terrorist attack, a person can be restored from their digital…

Past Lives

Past Lives

US/KR, 2023, 105 min.; en, kr / en sub / cz tit

Director: Celine Song

What if? In Korean, there is a word In-Yun which means “connected by fate”. When two people meet, it means that their destinies were intertwined in other lives as well. A delicate modern romance, it tells the story of writer…