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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 Arts

    Piargy

    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 Arts

    Victim

    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 Arts

    Arved

    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

    Elektrárňa

    No 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 Club

    Revelation 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 Club

    Liquid 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 Club

    r 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 Club

    memoria

    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 Club

    My 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 Club

    In 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 Cinema

    Welcome 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 Club

    Housing 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 Club

    Absence

    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 Arts

    The 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 Cinema

    The 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 Club

    Summer 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 Club

    At 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 Club

    After 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…