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.
Monday 14. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubMusic Box
Music Box
SK, 2019, 5 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues
Director: Joanna Kozuch
There is one goal, many ways to reach it; the choice is up to us.
Tuesday 15. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubJan’s Grain
Janove zrno
SK, 2019, 48 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Michal Stašák, Jakub Gajdoš
The film follows the story of an elderly man who is not satisfied with the current situation of the country. In spite of his lack of knowledge and confused ideologies, he decides to become a presidential candidate and hires young…
Sunday 13. 09. 14:00
House of ArtsShadow Country
Krajina ve stínu
CZ/SK, 2020, 173 min.; cz
Director: Bohdan Sláma
The film tells the story of the inhabitants of a forgotten village close to the Austrian border after the events of the 1930s to 1950s enter their lives. Previously it was essential to till the fields, survive the winter and…
Thursday 10. 09. 19:00
House of ArtsServants
Služobníci
SK/RO/CZ/IE, 2020, 80 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Ivan Ostrochovský
It is the year 1980. Michal and Juraj are students at a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Fearing the dissolution of the school, the tutors are moulding the seminarians into a shape that is satisfactory to the ruling Communist Party.
Thursday 10. 09. 21:30
House of ArtsCaught in the Net
V síti
CZ/SK, 2019, 90 min.; cz
Director: Vít Klusák, Barbora Chalupová
3 actresses, 3 rooms, 10 days and 2458 sexual predators. An experiment which urgently opens up a taboo topic of child abuse on the Internet. The documentary talks about a captivating drama of three protagonists alias “twelve-year-old girls” from their…
Saturday 12. 09. 10:00
House of ArtsIcons / Ferdinand Milučký
IKONY / Ferdinand Milučký
SK, 2020, 26 min.; sk, en
Director: Dorota Vlnová
Icons is a documentary series about the oldest living generation of Slovak architects—about the generation which reached the peak of its art during socialism and, today, it often doesn’t receive its deserved recognition. The film is not merely a portrait…
Saturday 12. 09. 20:00
Fontana CinemaVideo Kings
Králové videa
CZ, 2020, 82 min.; cz / en sub
Director: Lukáš Bulava
This documentary takes you, like an imaginary DeLorean, back to the time when our videos were dominated by voiceovers, movies were bought on the black market and at-home video projections were mass-organized. Come and see how the former pirates, voice…
Sunday 13. 09. 11:00
Fontana CinemaSummer Rebels
Letní rebeli
SK/DE, 2020, 90 min.; sk
Director: Martina Saková
Summer is finally here. Jonáš is excited about spending the holidays with his grandpa Bernard, but with no wife and no job, grandpa is not in the best mood. Jonáš knows that he has think of something; and so, it…
Tuesday 15. 09. 14:00
Fontana CinemaCharlatan
Šarlatán
CZ/IE/PL/SK, 2020, 118 min.; cz / en sub
Director: Agnieszka Holland
The drama of an extraordinary man, reflecting the age-old struggle of the two principles that have controlled the humanity from the very beginning. Good and evil. Love and hate, cruelty and mercy, faith and betrayal. All that in one person…
Saturday 12. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubThe Pack
Smečka
CZ/SK/LV, 2020, 94 min.; cz
Director: Tomáš Polenský
The film presents an aggressive group of teenagers who follow exclusively the law of the stronger. Thus the whole group turns into a pack of wolves within which a weaker individual has no chance. The protagonist of the film—Dávid (16)—joins…
Tuesday 15. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubPoetika Anima
Poetika Anima
SK, 2018, 5 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Kriss Sagan
Poetika Anima is a non-narrative animated film based on a lyrical poem created by the synthesis of director’s diary notes. Countless symbols and visual metaphors, along with the original atmospheric music by Frederic Robinson, create a story rich in interpretations…
Monday 14. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubA Manifesto of Despise
Manifest pohŕdania
SK, 2019, 8 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Kristián Grupač
A classical story of a poet born anew comes into existence similarly to the birth of a poem—from the bubbling foamy blood, humiliation and, finally, from the utterance of the only word permanently sleeping under one’s tongue.
Monday 14. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubThe March
Pochod
SK, 2018, 20 min.; sk, uk / en sub
Director: Michal Blaško
After an anonymous violent attack, a 13-year-old girl, Lucia, tells the police that she was attacked by three Roma men. The city’s inhabitants want to express their frustration, so they organize a “march against violence” in the support of the…
Monday 14. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubFire Report
Požiarne hlásenie
SK, 2019, 16 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Katarína Jonisová
Humans instinctively avoid the unknown. The distance that we keep among ourselves results from the fear of the unknown. Elias Canetti says that in mass a person can be set free from the fear of the unknown. Andy Winson’s motivational…
Monday 14. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubR+J
R+J
SK, 2019, 6 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Martina Buchelová
The film talks about the love story that we all know. Juliet knows that she and Romeo are destined to be together. Romeo knows that he and Jessica are destined to be together.
Monday 14. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubTrust me
Ver mi
SK, 2019, 6 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Zlata Golecová
The hand cuts its nail and puts it into a flowerpot. While expecting a baby hand, to its surprise, something completely different appears—a baby foot. How will their relationship develop and what will happen?…
Tuesday 15. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubFighter
Bojovník
SK, 2020, 26 min.; sk, cz / en sub
Director: Matúš Men
The film captures the life of a MMA fighter who has to win his inner psychological struggle to defeat his rival physically. After his defeat, Jozef has to find his enthusiasm and determination to get back on his feet. The…
Monday 14. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubCrowds, Power and Happy Happyendings
Masa, moc a šťastné happyendy
SK, 2019, 68 min.; sk
Director: rôzni / various
As soon as there is a mass, it wants to multiply. The act of procreation, the correlation of upbringing, the acquisition of a universal voice. An individual in a mass loses his or her anxieties and inhibitions, happily dissolves in…
Tuesday 15. 09. 14:00
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