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.
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…
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…
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. 18:00
ElektrárňaNo Elements
Prázdna množina
SK, 2022, 25 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Barbara Vojtašáková
No Elements is an audiovisual dialogue between two young people, Michal and Tereza. Four years after the break-up they reflect back on their relationship through joint film footage. Gradually we discover what was the main reason for their breakup and…
Saturday 17. 09. 16:00
Cinema ClubRevelation of John
Zjavenie Jána
SK, 2022, 11 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Andrej Kolenčík
When Magda receives a long-awaited letter from Ján, her life becomes extraordinary. This poetic film intertwines a charming everyday life in the harmonious union of two beings with a meta-universe of moments of loneliness. Eva Pavlíková and Viliam Hriadel shine…
Saturday 17. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubLiquid Bread
Chlieb náš každodenný
SK, 2021, 26 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Alica Bednáriková
Southern Slovakia, hot summer days, a family of three generations meets under one roof. An unexpected visit from Zoja, the granddaughter, stirs up the peaceful routine. Within the quiet presence of God and alcohol, the family untails its tragicomical past…
Saturday 17. 09. 17:00
Cinema Clubr a u u
r a u u
SK, 2021, 5 min.; bez dialógov / no dialogues
Director: Zlata Golecová
A glass shard is missing from a broken mirror. A mysterious entity is approaching to fix it, but has to get rid of excess layers of its own being to proceed. What will be left of it in the end?…
Saturday 17. 09. 17:00
Cinema Clubmemoria
memoria
SK, 2021, 22 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Peter Podolský
Project memoria composes found footage—visual diaries of Jozef Homer. The film conceptually thematizes the phenomenon of time and memory as defining components of our existence and identity.
Saturday 17. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubMy Deer Dear
My Deer Dear
CZ, 2021, 6 min.; en
Director: Šima Mullerová
A cinematic poem about love, time and recording. Images that step away from reality into the world of imagination.
Saturday 17. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubIn Shallow Water
V plytkej vode
SK, 2020, 10 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Marek Moučka
Finding connections between a Christmas traditional dish and sentenced prisoners leads to a closer look at questions about the meaning of freedom and identity. Faces that cannot be recognized but their voice still remains. Is debt towards society redeemable with…
Saturday 17. 09. 20:00
Fontána CinemaWelcome Home!
Vitaj doma, brate!
SK/CZ/RS, 2022, 104 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Peter Serge Butko
Marína comes to visit her parents in Bački Petrovac to introduce to them her fiancé, the famous writer Zoli. A staunch abstinent and vegetarian, it is not easy for him at first in a village famous for its sausages and…
Tuesday 13. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubHousing Against Everyone
Bydlet proti všem
CZ/SK, 2021, 95 min.; cz / en sub
Director: Tomáš Hlaváček
The film tells the story of a city over several years, in which the city council decided to try one of the new methods of combating the “poverty business” called Rapid Rehousing. The principle is to provide a stable home…
Wednesday 14. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubAbsence
Absence
IR/CZ/SK, 2021, 100 min.; fa, cz, en / sk tit
Director: Ali Mosaffa
Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, far from family issues in Tehran, and immerses himself in the search for the past of his father, a communist exile who once lived in socialist Czechoslovakia. While visiting the apartment where his father had lived…
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…
Thursday 15. 09. 20:00
Fontána CinemaThe Word
Slovo
CZ/SK/PL, 2020, 100 min.; cz
Director: Beata Parkanová
A psychological family drama set in Czechoslovakia in the period between May 1968 and 1969 is an intense look into the lives of husband and wife, Václav and Věra, who go through socio-political and personal upheavals together and try not…
Friday 16. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubSummer of life
Leto života
SK, 2021, 29 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Marek Celec
The documentary is a portrait of art photographer Viliam Rudnický, who, after twenty years, returns to photography to carry out his dream expo. At the same time, he is still taking pictures of nudes and trying to achieve a perfect…
Friday 16. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubAt the Beginning of the End
Na začiatku konca
SK, 2022, 22 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Rebeka Bizubová
The documentary At the Beginning of the End opens up the topics of old age, love, and death. It offers the viewer a wide spectrum of knowing the relationship between mother and daughter in the final phase of their existence.
Friday 16. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubAfter the Wedding
Po svadbe
SK, 2022, 20 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Matej Kľúčik
A portrait of the relationship of toy collectors Ľubo and Janka, who after twelve years of cohabitation found themselves facing a life event—a wedding. The approaching commitment forces them to re-evaluate their lives and thus several “misunderstandings” about the future…