Cinema Club
The City Cultural Center of Piešťany is currently an important cultural institution whose mission is to organize cultural and educational activities for all ages. In the building on the street of A. Dubcek, the so-called Small stage, there are classrooms in which they are held, lectures, discussion forums and likewhise. Cinematik makes advantage of its cinema with place for 150 visitors.
Wednesday 14. 09. 20:00
Cinema ClubBlessed Boys
La Santa Piccola
IT, 2021, 97 min.; it / en sub / sk tit
Director: Silvia Brunelli
In a sunny district of Naples where everyone knows each other, Mario and Lino, two inseparable friends, live days that are always the same. Until Lino’s little sister, Annaluce, makes a miracle and becomes the patron saint of the district.
Tuesday 13. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubParallel Mothers
Madres paralelas
ES, 2021, 120 min.; es / cz tit
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Two women, Janis and Ana, find themselves in a hospital room at the same time, waiting to give birth. Both are single and got pregnant unexpectedly. Janis is middle-aged, does not regret being pregnant, and is looking forward to having…
Wednesday 14. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubLandscapes of Resistance
Pejzaži otpora
RS/DE/FR, 2020, 90 min.; sh / cz tit
Director: Marta Popivoda
Marta Popivoda’s film materializes the memory footprints of an elderly woman, Sonja, who remembers how she became a partisan and joined the anti-Nazi resistance. However, we rarely see her. Instead, we travel through the land where she herself walked 80…
Thursday 15. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubGentle
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…
Thursday 15. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubHouse 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…
Friday 16. 09. 20:00
Cinema ClubEami
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…
Saturday 17. 09. 16:00
Cinema ClubRevelation of John
Zjavenie Jána
SK, 2022, 11 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Andrej Kolenčík
When Magda receives a long-awaited letter from Ján, her life becomes extraordinary. This poetic film intertwines a charming everyday life in the harmonious union of two beings with a meta-universe of moments of loneliness. Eva Pavlíková and Viliam Hriadel shine…
Saturday 17. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubLiquid Bread
Chlieb náš každodenný
SK, 2021, 26 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Alica Bednáriková
Southern Slovakia, hot summer days, a family of three generations meets under one roof. An unexpected visit from Zoja, the granddaughter, stirs up the peaceful routine. Within the quiet presence of God and alcohol, the family untails its tragicomical past…
Saturday 17. 09. 17:00
Cinema Clubr a u u
r a u u
SK, 2021, 5 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues
Director: Zlata Golecová
A glass shard is missing from a broken mirror. A mysterious entity is approaching to fix it, but has to get rid of excess layers of its own being to proceed. What will be left of it in the end?…
Saturday 17. 09. 17:00
Cinema Clubmemoria
memoria
SK, 2021, 22 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Peter Podolský
Project memoria composes found footage—visual diaries of Jozef Homer. The film conceptually thematizes the phenomenon of time and memory as defining components of our existence and identity.
Saturday 17. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubMy Deer Dear
My Deer Dear
CZ, 2021, 6 min.; en
Director: Šima Mullerová
A cinematic poem about love, time and recording. Images that step away from reality into the world of imagination.
Saturday 17. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubIn Shallow Water
V plytkej vode
SK, 2020, 10 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Marek Moučka
Finding connections between a Christmas traditional dish and sentenced prisoners leads to a closer look at questions about the meaning of freedom and identity. Faces that cannot be recognized but their voice still remains. Is debt towards society redeemable with…
Saturday 17. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubTERROR NULLIUS
TERROR NULLIUS
AU, 2018, 54 min.; en / sk tit
Director: Soda Jerk
According to the Soda Jerk duo, Australia is more Terror than Terra nullius. A film remix made up of more than 170 film, television and news materials, presents Australia as a country that was founded on colonial violence, and where…
Saturday 17. 09. 20:00
Cinema ClubMen
Men
UK, 2022, 100 min.; en / cz tit
Director: Alex Garland
Fans of cinematic horror, meticulous character psychology and interpretive puzzles should take heed. The independent horror film by British author Alex Garland (author of the novel The Beach, the TV series Devs and the films Annihilation and Ex Machina) works…
Sunday 18. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubReturning to Reims (Fragments)
Retour à Reims (Fragments)
FR, 2021, 83 min.; fr / sk tit
Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot
Through the text of Didier Eribon interpreted by Adèle Haenel, the film tells in archives an intimate and political story of the French working class from the beginning of the 1950s to today.
Sunday 18. 09. 17:00
Cinema Club5 Broken Cameras
5 Broken Cameras
PS/IL/FR/NL, 2011, 94 min.; he, ar / sk tit
Director: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
Amateur cameraman Emad Burnat managed to capture in a unique way the several-years-long struggle of his village in the West Bank in Jordan against the colonial effort to seize its territory in favor of illegal construction. A strongly personal film…
Tuesday 13. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubHousing Against Everyone
Bydlet proti všem
CZ/SK, 2021, 95 min.; cz / en sub
Director: Tomáš Hlaváček
The film tells the story of a city over several years, in which the city council decided to try one of the new methods of combating the “poverty business” called Rapid Rehousing. The principle is to provide a stable home…
Wednesday 14. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubAbsence
Absence
IR/CZ/SK, 2021, 100 min.; fa, cz, en / sk tit
Director: Ali Mosaffa
Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, far from family issues in Tehran, and immerses himself in the search for the past of his father, a communist exile who once lived in socialist Czechoslovakia. While visiting the apartment where his father had lived…
Thursday 15. 09. 11:00
Cinema ClubValerie 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…
Thursday 15. 09. 20:00
Cinema ClubOccupation
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…
Friday 16. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubSummer 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…
Friday 16. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubAt 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.
Friday 16. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubAfter 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…
Friday 16. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubMariupol. (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.