House of Arts
The House of Arts in Piešťany was built as the first purpose-built building outside of Bratislava after World War II. It is designed by the architect Ferdinand Milucky, who was among other things responsible for the modification and reconstruction of the Main Square and Castle Hill in Bratislava. It can swagger with one of the biggest auditoriums in Slovakia (over 600 seats) and the interior has recently been enhanced with new projection technology.
Tuesday 12. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsHotel
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…
Tuesday 12. 09. 23:00
House of ArtsEnys 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…
Wednesday 13. 09. 11:00
House of ArtsFalcon 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…
Wednesday 13. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsThe 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.
Wednesday 13. 09. 17:00
House of ArtsPerfect 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.
Wednesday 13. 09. 20:00
House of ArtsFallen 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…
Wednesday 13. 09. 23:00
House of ArtsEismayer
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…
Thursday 14. 09. 11:00
House of ArtsLillian
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…
Thursday 14. 09. 17:00
House of ArtsAfire
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…
Thursday 14. 09. 20:00
House of ArtsAnatomy 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…
Thursday 14. 09. 23:00
House of ArtsChimera
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,…
Friday 15. 09. 11:00
House of ArtsThe 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…
Friday 15. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsBurning 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…
Friday 15. 09. 17:00
House of ArtsHounds
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,…
Friday 15. 09. 20:00
House of ArtsKidnapped
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…
Friday 15. 09. 23:00
House of ArtsWill-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…
Saturday 16. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsBlaga’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…
Saturday 16. 09. 17:00
House of ArtsThe 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.
Saturday 16. 09. 23:00
House of ArtsInshallah 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.
Sunday 17. 09. 11:00
House of ArtsPast 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…
Sunday 17. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsAnatomy 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…
Sunday 17. 09. 17:00
House of ArtsFallen 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…
Sunday 17. 09. 20:00
House of ArtsStrange 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…
Saturday 16. 09. 09:00
House of ArtsArchitecture 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…
Tuesday 12. 09. 19:00
House of ArtsWe 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…
Thursday 14. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsA 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…
Saturday 16. 09. 11:00
House of ArtsRestore 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…
Saturday 16. 09. 20:00
House of ArtsPast 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…