In the House
Current Slovak cinema premieres, television novelties, but also a film review of students Works from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. The Slovak cinematography is extremely lively and Cinematik selects the most interesting documentary and fiction titles.
Wednesday 15. 09. 11:00
Cinema ClubRemedy
Remedy
SK, 2021, 40 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Jakub Šipoš
The story of four young people who embark on a boat journey from the Canary Islands to the southern part of Senegal to bring water filters to the Casamance area. The visual mosaic captures an escape from a consumerist society…
Wednesday 15. 09. 17:00
House of ArtsThe Auschwitz Report
Správa
SK/CZ/DE, 2020, 94 min.; sk, en, cz, pl, de / sk tit
Director: Peter Bebjak
After more than a year of meticulous planning, Auschwitz prisoners Alfréd and Rudolf set forth an escape plan in hopes of sharing precious evidence with anti-Nazi forces. With the resilient aid of their fellow inmates, the pair embarks on a…
Wednesday 15. 09. 20:00
House of ArtsForebodings
Peredčutťa
UA/LT/SK, 2019, 90 min.; uk / sk tit
Director: Vjačeslav Kryštofovyč
The slow pace of life in the small seaside town of N is suddenly disturbed by a local scandal surrounding a man who has recently passed away. Only his wife and his friend know where he was buried, and they…
Thursday 16. 09. 17:00
House of ArtsMistakes
Chyby
CZ, 2021, 99 min.; cz
Director: Jan Prušinovský
Ema is a 25-year-old energetic shop assistant in a small-town supermarket. Tomáš is a 30-year-old roofer living in a nearby village. One night, which neither of them expected anything special from, quickly grows into a relationship, love and living together.
Thursday 16. 09. 20:00
Fontána CinemaEvery Single Minute
Každá minúta života
CZ/SK, 2021, 80 min.; sk
Director: Erika Hníková
Young couple Lenka and Michal Hanuliak have been conducting an unusual experiment with their four-year-old son Miško since his birth. Every minute of his life is managed in such a manner that he can grow up to be a top…
Friday 17. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsWild Roots
Külön falka
HU/SK, 2021, 98 min.; hu / sk tit
Director: Hajni Kis
Ex-con Tibor works as a bouncer in a club. He’s in financial difficulties and in an endless conflict with his surroundings. He and his wild daughter have not seen each other for seven years. The twelve-year-old girl lives with her…
Friday 17. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsLove, Dad
Milý tati
CZ/SK, 2021, 13 min.; cz / en sub
Director: Diana Cam Van Nguyen
The film depicts the relationship of a daughter who, through this film, looks for a way back to her father. The author found letters he had written to her from prison years ago. Letters full of love she never experienced…
Friday 17. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubMy Afghan Family
Moja afganská rodina
CZ/FR/SK, 2021, 80 min.; cz
Director: Michaela Pavlátová
When Herra, a Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in the post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join. Like the other women in…
Friday 17. 09. 20:00
Cinema ClubReconstruction of Occupation
Rekonstrukce okupace
CZ/SK, 2021, 95 min.; cz
Director: Jan Šikl
Director Jan Šikl has been collecting amateur films from different families for over thirty years. Recently, he found 3.5 hours of professionally filmed material that captures the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact forces on August 21, 1968. The…
Saturday 18. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubThe Impossible Voyage
Cesta do nemožna
SK/CZ, 2019, 90 min.; sk
Director: Noro Držiak
The Impossible Voyage is a special effects film depicting the life story of one of the greatest Slovak personalities of European importance, M. R. Štefánik. With only a slight exaggeration, we could call the film a documentary as if made…
Sunday 19. 09. 11:00
Cinema ClubFragment 0
Fragment 0
SK, 2019, 9 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues
Director: Michal Žilinský
The experimental film Fragment 0 takes place in an organic area devoid of universal physical laws, natural processes and mankind, whose absence indicates the latent forms of the world in either the final or the initial state of the moment…
Sunday 19. 09. 11:00
Cinema ClubRheum
Ospalky
SK, 2021, 28 min.; cz / en sub
Director: Kateřina Hroníková
The lives of an elderly couple who have given up on their connection to the outside world and whose everyday lives have shrunk to compulsive task completion are interrupted by a company called The Sun. The company offers services to…
Sunday 19. 09. 11:00
Cinema ClubYours
Yours
SK, 2017, 6 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues
Director: Pavol Čižmár
The film, whose narrative is driven by the music of Slovak band Bulp, tells the story of a woman after tragically losing her partner. Through virtual reality, she discovers an alternative, in which they can continue to live together, forever.
Sunday 19. 09. 11:00
Cinema ClubJourney
Journey
SK/CZ, 2018, 9 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues
Director: Marek Jasaň
Journey is the story of a man, who daydreams entering the minds of people around him, stealing their dreams, desires and personal experience in order to fill his own, empty mind.
Sunday 19. 09. 11:00
Cinema ClubAbout freedom [not]
O(slobode)nie
SK, 2018, 21 min.; sk, en / en sub
Director: Paula Reiselová
The film is a personal experiment by the director who gives up the responsibility for her own life on the path to freedom. Using a social network, she lets anonymous followers decide for her. Like Alice in Wonderland, who has…
Sunday 19. 09. 11:00
Cinema ClubGreetings from Nigeria
Pozdrav z Nigérie
SK, 2020, 17 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Peter Hoferica
When pensioner Emil receives an e-mail from a Nigerian prince asking for financial help, he has no other option (despite the disapproval of the rest of the family) than to send him the money. The Nigerian prince promises him not…
Tuesday 14. 09. 19:00
House of Arts107 Mothers
Cenzorka
SK/CZ/UA, 2021, 90 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Peter Kerekes
Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa’s correctional facilities for women. She has just given birth to her first child and now she is entering a world populated only by…