Sunday 17. 09.

Brigand Jurko

Zbojník Jurko

CS, 1976, 79 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues

Director: Viktor Kubal

On a stormy night in a village at the foot of the mountains, a child was born. They named him Jurko. When his mother was dragged to the castle, a fairy cradled the newborn. As the years went by, Jurko…

2551.02 “The Orgy of the Damned”

2551.02 “The Orgy of the Damned”

AT, 2023, 82 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues

Director: Norbert Pfaffenbichler

The second instalment in the intended “dystopic slapstick film” trilogy is set in the very same nightmarish world as “The Kid”, in fact it directly follows the story of an abandoned child saved by an Ape Man—a man in a…

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…

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…

Kidnapped

Rapito

IT/FR/DE, 2023, 125 min.; it, he / cz tit

Director: Marco Bellocchio

In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son. The child had been secretly baptized by…

Knit’s Island

Knit’s Island

FR, 2023, 95 min.; fr, en / en sub / sk tit

Director: Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L'helgoualc'h

Somewhere on the Internet, there is a space of 250 square kilometers in which individuals gather in a community to simulate survivalist fiction. Under the guise of avatars, a film crew enters this place and makes contact with players. Who…

Fallen Leaves

Kuolleet lehdet

FI/DE, 2023, 81 min.; fi / cz tit

Director: Aki Kaurismäki

Holappa works as a construction worker, lives in a hostel, and chases away his sorrows with excessive alcohol consumption. Ansa works a poorly paid job in a supermarket and returns to an empty apartment in the evening, where news of…

SHTTL

SHTTL

UA/FR, 2022, 109 min.; yi / en sub / sk tit

Director: Ady Walter

A filmmaker returns from Kiev to his rural village to marry the love of his life. She is expected to marry the Rabbi’s son, which disrupts the balance of the whole village. In one unflinching shot, this film presents a…

Luzifer

Luzifer

AT, 2021, 103 min.; de / en sub / sk tit

Director: Peter Brunner

Johannes, an innocent, Kaspar Hauser-like man with the heart of a child, lives secluded in an alpine hut together with his eagle and his devout mother. Daily life in this isolated world is governed by prayer and ritual. But suddenly,…

Perfect Days

Perfect Days

JP/DE, 2023, 123 min.; jp, en / cz tit

Director: Wim Wenders

Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine, he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them.

Strange Way of Life

Extraña forma de vida

ES/FR, 2023, 31 min.; en / sk tit

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

After twenty-five years Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend Sheriff Jake. They celebrate the meeting, but the next morning Jake tells him that the reason for his trip is not to go down the memory…

The Northman

The Northman

US, 2022, 137 min.; en / cz tit

Director: Robert Eggers

How far will the young Viking warrior be willing to go to avenge his father’s murder? The Northman is a sweeping epic by Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse, The Witch), one of the most distinctive contemporary filmmakers. Directed by an admirable…

Modern trends in art cinema

Prednáška, 60 min.

Since 2000, hundreds of extraordinary films have been created. Cinematik co-organizer Peter Konečný will present his view on the topics of life, death, the world, and society reflected in modern cinema. What are the basic differences between commercial and ambitious…

A Happy Man

Šťastný človek

SK/CZ, 2023, 81 min.; en, cz, sk, se / en sub / cz tit

Director: Soňa G. Lutherová

The intimate story of a man who has discovered his true self and must risk what is most precious in order to live authentically.

A Night of Knowing Nothing

A Night of Knowing Nothing

FR/IN, 2021, 97 min.; hi, bn, en, fr / en sub / sk tit

Director: Payal Kapadia

A university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies, and anxieties, an…