Slovak Film News: Bloody Lady by Viktor Kubal in Lyon & Slovak national Oscar nomination
Festivals 11-10-2017
Digitally restored classic Bloody Lady at Lumière Festival
The re-release of Viktor Kubal’s Bloody Lady (1980), that was digitized and restored by the National Film Archive of the Slovak Film Institute, will take place at the 9th Lumière Festival. The film will be screened within the section Archival treasures and curiosities, that offers unique restored archive films from all over the world.
Animated film Bloody Lady tells a story of crime and love, inspired by the historical legend of Elizabeth Báthory, the bloody countess of Čachtice. The eternal conflict between good and evil is captured against the backdrop of a romantic love story with comic and tragic elements.
"The Bloody Lady is an example of screen writing mastery and precise dramaturgic composition despite the reduced imagery and limited animation the director Viktor Kubal has the skill to pace suspense and play the audiences emotional strings. Well observed elements of melodrama together with Kubal´s natural affinity for parody turned this film into an original synthesis of the two genres. Inevitably a comparison comes to mind with another master of horror (and it´s parody) Alfred Hitchcock.“ Rudolf Urc
Slovak nomination for the Oscar bid is The Line
The Line by Peter Bebjak continues the successful path that started at Karlovy Vary IFF 2017 where it received the Best Director Award. Since then, it has broken box office records in domestic cinemas and now is trotting the festival circuit.
The Line narrates a story of Adam Krajňák, the head of the family and also boss of a gang of criminals smuggling cigarettes across the Slovak-Ukrainian border. The failure of one of the transports triggers an avalanche of consequences that compels him to question his own boundaries, none of which he had planned on crossing. Until now.
The Line also participates in the European Film Promotion projectScreenings of Oscar® Submitted Films during the American Film Market.
Co-production support - Strasbourg, 25.10.2017 - At its 148th meeting held from 16 to 20 October 2017 in Skopje, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 22 fiction, 7 documentaries and 1 animation film projects for a total amount of €5,598,535.
STRASBOURG: The 148th meeting of the Eurimages Fund decided to support 30 coproductions, consisting of 22 fiction films, 7 documentaries and one animation.
These grants were announced by the Georgian National Film Center in July 2017.
These production grants were announced by the Georgian National Film Center in April 2017.
BERLIN: The Polish/UK coproduction Loving Vincent by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchmanand the Belgian/Dutch/Bulgarian film King of the Belgians by Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens have been nominated for European Film Awards 2017.
PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises announced net revenues of 119.4 m USD in the third quarter of 2017, up 4.8 percent in constant rates from the Q3 2016 results. Net revenues are up 6 percent overall for the first three quarters of the year.
WARSAW: Anna Gawlita represents Poland at the Emerging Producers 2018 programme taking place at the Jihlava IDFF.
Every year, it's the audience that decides some of the winners at Warsaw Film Festival. With A Hustler’s Diary chosen as the Best Feature Film, here is the full list.
WARSAW: The Grand Prix of the 32nd Warsaw FF went to the Chinese film To Kill a Watermelon directed by Zehao Gao at the closing ceremony on 21 October 2017.
