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.
Sunday 18. 09. 19:00
House of ArtsPiargy
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…
Saturday 17. 09. 20:00
House of ArtsTriangle 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.
Tuesday 13. 09. 19:00
House of ArtsVictim
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…
Wednesday 14. 09. 11:00
House of ArtsBergman 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…
Wednesday 14. 09. 17:00
House of ArtsAftersun
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…
Tuesday 13. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsThe 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…
Wednesday 14. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsInnocence
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…
Thursday 15. 09. 17:00
House of ArtsThe 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.
Thursday 15. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsEO
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…
Wednesday 14. 09. 23:00
House of ArtsEvolution
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…
Thursday 15. 09. 11:00
House of ArtsMothering 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…
Thursday 15. 09. 20:00
House of ArtsThe 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.
Thursday 15. 09. 23:00
House of ArtsThe 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…
Friday 16. 09. 11:00
House of ArtsKlondike
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…
Friday 16. 09. 20:00
House of ArtsDecision 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…
Friday 16. 09. 17:00
House of ArtsArved
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.
Friday 16. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsCorsage
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.
Friday 16. 09. 23:00
House of ArtsVortex
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…
Saturday 17. 09. 11:00
House of ArtsThe 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…
Saturday 17. 09. 17:00
House of ArtsBeautiful 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…
Saturday 17. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsNeighbours
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?…
Sunday 18. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsUtama
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…
Saturday 17. 09. 23:00
House of ArtsBoth 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…
Wednesday 14. 09. 20:00
House of ArtsThe 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…
Saturday 17. 09. 09:00
House of ArtsArchitecTOUR 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…