House of Arts

Hotel

Hotel

AT/DE, 2004, 73 min.; de / cz tit

Director: Jessica Hausner

Irene gets a job as a receptionist at a large, lonely hotel in the Austrian Alps. She discovers that the girl who worked there before her has mysteriously disappeared. Wandering through the labyrinth of desolate hotel corridors, the impersonal room…

Enys Men

Enys Men

UK, 2022, 96 min.; en / sk tit

Director: Mark Jenkin

Set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer’s daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what…

Falcon Lake

Falcon Lake

FR/CA, 2022, 100 min.; fr, en / sk tit

Director: Charlotte Le Bon

Shy thirteen-year-old Bastien arrives with his parents for a summer vacation at Falcon Lake, where he meets Chloé, a girl three years older than him. An unequal relationship develops between them, which vaguely balances between romance and manipulation. On the…

The Beasts

As bestas

ES/FR, 2022, 137 min.; es, gl, fr / en sub / sk tit

Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen

Antoine and Olga are a French couple that settled down, some time ago, in a small village, in inland Galicia (Spain). There, they lead a peaceful life, although coexisting with the local people isn’t as idyllic as they would like.

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.

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…

Eismayer

Eismayer

AT/DE, 2022, 87 min.; de, ba / en sub / sk tit

Director: David Wagner

Sergeant Major Eismayer is known and feared as the toughest training officer in the Austrian Armed Forces, ruthless with recruits and unwavering in his discipline, order and macho toughness. But when he starts to fall in love with Falak, a…

Lillian

Lillian

AT, 2019, 128 min.; en, ru / en sub / sk tit

Director: Andreas Horvath

Lillian—an emigrant stranded in New York City—decides to walk back to her native Russia. She resolutely starts out on the long journey. A road movie straight across the USA into the freezing temperatures of Alaska. The chronicle of a slow…

Afire

Roter Himmel

DE, 2023, 103 min.; de / cz tit

Director: Christian Petzold

Leon and Felix‘s plan was to spend the summer together in a holiday home on the Baltic coast. They wanted to be there as friends but also to work—one on his second book, the other assembling his art portfolio. But…

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…

Chimera

La Chimera

IT/FR/CH, 2023, 130 min.; it, en / cz tit

Director: Alice Rohrwacher

The adventurous, magical realism-influenced original work invites you to the environment of the black market with archaeological artifacts. Arthur, played by Josh O’Connor, nicknamed the Englishman, is a member of the Italian tombaroli gang of grave robbers. Together with others,…

The Best of All Worlds

Die beste aller Welten

AT/DE, 2017, 103 min.; de / en sub / cz tit

Director: Adrian Goiginger

Adrian lives through an adventurous childhood in the extraordinary milieu of the drug scene on the outskirts of an Austrian city, with a mother moving between caring and being high. Despite everything, this is a sheltered childhood, the best of…

Burning Days

Kurak Günler

TR/FR/DE/NL/GR/HR, 2022, 129 min.; tr / sk tit

Director: Emin Alper

Emre, a young prosecutor, newly appointed to the small town of Balkaya finds himself being pulled into a political conflict during his first murder investigation. When he forms a bond with the owner of the local newspaper, the pressure begins…

Hounds

Les Meutes

MA/FR/BE/QA/SA, 2023, 94 min.; ar / en sub / sk tit

Director: Kamal Lazraq

In the suburbs of Casablanca, Hassan and Issam, father and son, live from day to day by carrying out small trafficking jobs for the local mafia. One evening, they are tasked with kidnapping a man. Trapped in a long night,…

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…

Will-o’-the-Wisp

Fogo-Fátuo

PT/FR, 2022, 67 min.; pt / sk tit

Director: João Pedro Rodrigues

On his deathbed, his royal highness Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories and the time he dreamt of becoming a fireman. The encounter with instructor Afonso from the fire brigade opens a new chapter…

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 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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

We Have Never Been Modern

Úsvit

CZ/SK, 2023, 117 min.; cz, sk / en sub

Director: Matěj Chlupáček

It is 1937 and a young pregnant doctor Helena arrives with her husband, the director of the factory, in Svit. They want to build a utopian world in the developing Baťa-type town. However, the discovery of a dead body of…

A Sensitive Person

Citlivý člověk

CZ/SK, 2023, 120 min.; cz / en sub

Director: Tomáš Klein

Post-war Eastern Europe. Young Eliáš and his dad, both disguised as women, run to find Eliáš’s mother through a strangely dystopian landscape where people are filled only with frustration and fear. In order for the boy to keep his childhood…

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…