House of Arts

Piargy

Piargy

SK, 2022, 100 min.; sk / en sub

Director: Ivo Trajkov

A story of a young woman, Juliši, who marries the son of the richest landowner in the village, but does not resist her father-in-law’s violent seduction and inadvertently finds herself in the middle of a rough love triangle. The ballad…

Triangle of Sadness

Triangle of Sadness

SE, 2022, 149 min.; en / cz tit

Director: Ruben Östlund

Models Carl and Yaya are navigating the world of fashion while exploring the boundaries of their relationship. The couple are invited for a luxury cruise with super-rich passengers, a Russian oligarch, British arms dealers and an idiosyncratic, alcoholic, Marx-quoting captain.

Victim

Obeť

SK/CZ/DE, 2022, 91 min.; cz, ua

Director: Michal Blaško

Irina is a single mother from Ukraine who lives with her son Igor in a small town in the Czech Republic. When Igor is brutally attacked, the whole town stands in solidarity with Irina and unanimously condemns the Roma perpetrators…

Bergman Island

Bergman Island

FR/BE/DE/SE, 2021, 112 min.; en, fr, se / en sub / sk tit

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve

A filmmaking couple living in America, Chris and Tony retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the Summer. In this wild, breathtaking landscape where Bergman lived and shot his most celebrated pieces, they hope to find inspiration for their upcoming…

Aftersun

Aftersun

GB/US, 2022, 98 min.; en / cz tit

Director: Charlotte Wells

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with…

The Spirit of the Beehive

El espíritu de la colmena

ES, 1973, 98 min.; es / en sub / sk tit

Director: Víctor Erice

I discovered this Spanish masterpiece when I was still a teenager, in the middle of the seventies, and it has deeply fascinated and moved me since then. The film transports you into the mind of a child for whom dreams…

Innocence

Innocence

BE/FR/GB/JP, 2004, 115 min.; fr / en sub / sk tit

Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović

A subterranean rumbling resonates in the heart of a forest. Hidden by foliage, a metal grate reveals underground passageways, which lead to the cellars of five houses scattered throughout a great park. The park is cut off from the outside…

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.

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…

Evolution

Évolution

FR/BE/ES, 2015, 81 min.; fr / en sub / sk tit

Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović

10-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother on a remote island, in a village inhabited solely by women and young boys. In a hospital overlooking the ocean, all the boys are subjected to a mysterious medical treatment. Only Nicolas questions what…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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…

The Hole

Il buco

IT/FR/DE, 2021, 93 min.; it / cz tit

Director: Michelangelo Frammartino

A captivating, at times meditative film that captures the beauty of the South Italian countryside in the 1960s, where a group of adventurers from the north come to explore one of the deepest chasms in Europe. The descriptive, wordless filmmaking…

Beautiful Beings

Berdreymi

IS/DK/SE/NL/CZ, 2022, 123 min.; is / cz tit

Director: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

Nordic cinema will be represented in the Paths of Glory section by Beautiful Beings. Icelandic director Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson captures the story of Balli, a teenage outsider who finds his missing support in a group of equal outcasts. The film…

Neighbours

Nachbarn

CH, 2021, 124 min.; ku, ar, en, he / en sub / sk tit

Director: Mano Khalil

With a fine sense of humor and satire, the film tells of a childhood, which, between dictatorship and dark drama, also has its light moments. How much friendship, love and solidarity are possible in times of repression and despotism?…

Utama

Utama

BO/UY/FR, 2022, 87 min.; qu, es / cz tit

Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi

Bolivian director Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s debut film invites us to the arid South American semi-desert to visit an ageing Quechua couple whose lifestyle is changing unstoppably due to climate change. But an unusually long drought confronts Virginio and Sisa with…

Both Sides of the Blade

Avec amour et acharnement

FR, 2022, 116 min.; fr / sk tit

Director: Claire Denis

Paris, and already winter. Sarah and Jean love each other. They have lived together for several years. Their love makes them happy, strong. There is mutual trust, and the desire has never died down. One morning (by chance?), Sarah crosses…

The Nightsiren

Svetlonoc

SK/CZ, 2022, 105 min.; sk

Director: Tereza Nvotová

Thirty-year-old Šarlota returns to the village where she’s from, deep in the Slovak mountains, from where she fled many years ago under unclear circumstances. Her return arouses suspicion among locals, who thought she was dead all along. They fear that…

ArchitecTOUR Dom umenia

Guided Tour DU

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…