fbpx

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.

  • 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…

  • Wednesday 13. 09. 14:00

    House of Arts

    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…

  • Wednesday 13. 09. 23:00

    House of Arts

    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…

  • Thursday 14. 09. 20:00

    House of Arts

    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…

  • Thursday 14. 09. 23:00

    House of Arts

    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…

  • Saturday 16. 09. 14:00

    House of Arts

    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.

  • Saturday 16. 09. 23:00

    House of Arts

    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…

  • Saturday 16. 09. 09:00

    House of Arts

    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…

  • Tuesday 12. 09. 19:00

    House of Arts

    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…

  • Thursday 14. 09. 14:00

    House of Arts

    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…

  • Saturday 16. 09. 11:00

    House of Arts

    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…

  • Saturday 16. 09. 20:00

    House of Arts

    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…