FNE at Cannes 2016: Slovak Cinema in Cannes

15-05-2016

FNE at Cannes 2016: Slovak Cinema in Cannes

By Slovak Film Institute

What’s Slovak in Cannes, May 11-22, 2016 - Welcome to the Pavilion No. 133!

Semaine de la Critique

Superbia
The native people of the surrealistic land of Superbia, where men and women form separate societies, face the changes sparked by the first equal couple in their history.
HU, CZ, SK / 2016 / 16 min. / Animation
Director: Luca Toth
Production: Fakt Visual Lab (HU), Maur Film (CZ), Artichoke (SK), Boddah (HU)

Superbia by Luca Toth Festivals:
Daazo.com | Dániel Deák,
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., +36 207 755 700 |
Gábor Osváth, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., + 36 306 677 613 |
www.daazo.com
Sales:
New Europe Film Sales | Zofia Horszczaruk |
+48 882 119 890 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
www.neweuropefilmsales.com |
Office in Cannes:
Polish Cinema Stand | Marché du Film − GRAND HOTEL | 9th Floor

Screenings:
MAY 17, TUE, 14:15, ESPACE MIRAMAR
MAY 17, TUE, 19:45, ESPACE MIRAMAR
MAY 19, THU, 18:30 Theatre Alexandre III

PRODUCERS NETWORK

MPHILMS
PRODUCERS:
Mátyás Prikler, +421 904 674 408, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Zora Jaurová, +421 910 947 491, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
www.mphilms.sk

POWER / MOC, SK, HU, CZ | development | fiction
Director: Mátyás Prikler
He hunts for the first time and shoots. He accident tally kills a boy. He is the Minister. He is there to fix it. He does this for the last time. He is the Director. Whose story is really true?

SINGING HOUSE / SPIEVAJÚCI DOM, SK | development | documentary
Director: Miro Jelok
Don’t we deserve the hell we live in for how we are living?

SILVERART
PRODUCER: Katarína Krnáčová, +421 905 384 615, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., www.silverartfilm.sk

SHE IS A HARBOUR / PIATA LOĎ, SK, CZ, HU | post-production | fiction
Director: Iveta Grófová
Story of children who feel more safe in the streets rather than at home.
WWW.FILMPIATALOD.Sk/En

SUMMER WITH BERNARD / LETO S BERNARDOM, SK, DE, CZ | development | fiction
Director: Martina Saková
An adventurous story of friendship between 11-year-old Jonas and his Grandpa.

STAND UP / STAND UP, SK | development | fiction
Director: Juraj Bohuš
Road-movie about searching and fulfilling one’s dream.

WANDAL PRODUCTION
PRODUCER: Wanda Adamík Hrycová, +421 905 101 803, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., www.wandal.sk

THE LINE / ČIARA, SK | pre-production | fiction
Director: Peter Bebjak
There are borders you only cross once... Criminal thriller about traffickers and smugglers from the Ukrainian border. Feature film about borders and the life on their edge.
WWW.CIARA.Sk

DOC CORNER

COLOURS OF SAND / FARBY PIESKU, SK, CZ | 2015 | 80 min.
Director: Ladislav Kaboš
Slovak nurse, Ľuba El Malaheg, guides us through Libya during the reign of Muammar al-Gaddafi, at the time of the civil war and after. She finds herself at the edge of two worlds but neither is her home.
Contact: Michael Kaboš | KABOS Film & Media | +420 775 243 743 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

THE CZECH WAY / KUPONOVÁ PRIVATIZÁCIA, CZ, SK | 2015 | 92 min.
Director:Martin Kohout
A story of the Czechoslovak economic transformation of the 1990s.
Contact: Tomáš Michálek | MasterFilm | +420 602 630 466 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | www.masterfilm.cz

DIFFICULT CHOICE / ŤAŽKÁ VOĽBA, CZ, SK | 2016 | 70 min.
Director:Zuzana Piussi
Would you also like to go to the polls with the feeling that something will change?
Contact: Vít Janeček | D1film Prague | +420 603 164 232 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | www.d1film.com

EXCURSION - HISTORY OF THE PRESENT / EXKURZIA - HISTORIA SÚČASNOSTI, SK, CZ | 2015 | 82 min.
Director:Jan Gogola
History as experience of everyday life.
Contact: Peter Kerekes | Peter Kerekes | +421 905 255 698 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | www.kerekesfilm.com

LAST FOLIO / POSLEDNÝ PORTRÉT, SK, GB | 2015 | 80 min.
Director:Katya Krausova
World renowned photographer, Yuri Dojc, returns to Slovakia, his home country which he left in 1968 after the Soviet invasion. He is on a journey of discovering his roots and much more.
Contact: Katya Krausova | +44 7836 638 958 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
WWW.LASTFOLIO.COM

OKHWAN'S MISSION IMPOSSIBLE / OKHWAN NA CESTE ZA SLOBODOU, SK, CZ | 2016 | 71 min.
Director:Marek Mackovič
Okhwan Yoon used to be an ordinary law graduate and a successful businessman until he decided to set off on an epic bicycle journey across 192 countries to reconnect the scattered families of his own
nation. He decided to reunify Korea.
Contact: Marek Mackovič | Filmpark production | +421 905 122 298 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | www.filmpark.sk
WWW.OKHWAN.COM

STEAM ON THE RIVER / PARA NAD RIEKOU, CZ, SK | 2015 | 82 min.
Directors :Robert Kirchhoff, Filip Remunda
This documentary jam session loosely inspired by Puccini’s La Bohème talks, in crazy situations, about three artists of life, dying and death: Laco Deczi - trumpet, Ján Jankeje - double bass, Ľubomír Tamaškovič - saxophone.
Contact: Heino Deckert | Deckert Distribution | +49 341 215 66 38 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
www.deckert-distribution.com
WWW.JAZZWAR.COM

TRABANT – FROM AUSTRALIA TO BANGKOK / TRABANTOM DO POSLEDNÉHO DYCHU, CZ, SK | 2016 | 95 min.
Director: Dan Přibáň
Two Trabants, one Polish Fiat and two motorcycles set out on a journey from Australia to Bangkok.
Contact: Jiří Konečný | endorfilm | +420 602 358 373 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | www.endorfilm.cz
WWW.TRANSTRABANT.CZ

THROUGH THE EYES OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER / OČAMI FOTOGRAFKY, SK, CZ | 2015 | 82 min.
Director: Matej Mináč
Zuzana Mináčová's photographs of film stars have become legendary. Now she takes the viewer through many significant events of the 20thcentury and her dramatic personal life.
Contact: Patrik Pašš | TRIGON PRODUCTION | +421 917 705 200 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
www.trigon-production.sk

WAITING ROOM / ČAKÁREŇ, SK | 2015 | 72 min.
Director:Palo Korec
A film about large and small waiting rooms.
Contact: Ján Meliš | ARTILERIA | +421 905 261 949 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | www.artileria.sk
MORE INFORMATION AT: WWW.CINANDO.COM

SLOVAK FILM NEWS

SLOVAK NATIONAL AWARDS THE SUN IN A NET 2016

The Slovak Film and Television Academy (SFTA) granted the Slovak national film awards The Sun in
a Net 2016 for the years 2014 and 2015.
The most awarded film was Eva Nová by Marko Škop, winning five prizes: Best Fiction Film, Best Film Direction, Best Film Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Actor. Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Film Sound went to Koza by Ivan Ostrochovský. Seven Ravens by Alice Nellis received two awards, for Best Art Direction and Best Costumes/Makeup. Further awards went to films So Far, So Near (d. Jaro Vojtek, Best Documentary Film), Fongopolis (d. Joanna Kozuch, Best Animation Film), The Cleaner (d. Peter Bebjak, Best Film Editing) and The Edge – 4 Films about Marek Brezovský (d. Patrik Lančarič, Best Music). Moreover, director Juraj Jakubisko and cinematographer Igor Luther were honoured by the Award for outstanding contribution to Slovak Cinema.
WWW.SFTA.SK, WWW.AIC.SK

SLOVAK FILMS FOR SK PRES

From July 1 to December 31, 2016, Slovakia holds presidency of the Council of the European Union. Slovakia will take over the presidency for the first time in history. On this occasion, Slovak Film Institute will introduce a special collection of Slovak films on Blu-rays, aimed to support the Slovak cultural presentation during the presidency. The selection includes five archive films:
The Boxer and Death (Peter Solan, 1962),
The Sun in a Net (Štefan Uher, 1962),
Birds, Orphans and Fools (Juraj Jakubisko, 1969),
I Love, You Love (Dušan Hanák, 1980),
A Path Across the Danube(Miloslav Luther, 1989),
and five representative titles from the independent era of Slovak cinema:
Everything I Love (Martin Šulík, 1992),
Paper Heads (Dušan Hanák, 1995),
The Power of Good - Nicholas Winton (Matej Mináč, 2004),
Blind Loves (Juraj Lehotský, 2008) and
Soul at Peace (Vladimír Balko, 2009).
The film collection will serve for promotion purposes only and will not be for sale. Slovak Embassies
and Cultural Institutes will use it for non-commercial film events during the presidency period. Each of the Blu-rays contains subtitles in six languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Russian), Slovak subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH), and a booklet with additional information about the films.
WWW.SFU.SK, WWW.EU2016.SK

ACCOMPANYING EVENTS

SCRIPTEAST 2015 — 2016 SAMKOTALE'S CEMETERY BOOK
Scriptwriters: Tereza Oľhová, Michal Kollár
Contact: SOKOL KOLLAR, +421 905 619 027, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., www.sokolkollar.sk
A bitter comedy about a village idiot and eternal Young Pioneer who is suddenly faced with the consequences of what he had done to keep his Young Pioneer’s pledge.

MICHAL KOLLÁR *1978
Founder of the Slovak production house SOKOL KOLLAR and co-founder of the Czech Fog’n’Desire
Films, Michal started off by producing Zuzana Liová’s The House (orig. Dom, SK, CZ), winner of
Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award premiered at Berlinale’s Forum in 2012. Recently, he directed
The Red Captain (orig. Červený kapitán, SK, CZ, PL), which was also ScripTeast-developed, and was
successfully released at Slovak cinemas (the film made it to the TOP 10 domestic films by admission
since the establishment of the independent Slovak Republic in 1993).

TEREZA OĽHOVÁ *1986
Tereza graduated from the Film and Television Department at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2010 − 2011, she attended Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels. As a writer, she has participated in a number of Slovak and Czech television and film projects including: feature
Pomocníci (d. Saša Gojdičová), short animated film Fifi Fatale(d. Mária Oľhová) and several TV series.
WWW.SCRIPTEAST.PL

48 HOUR FILM PROJECT
The 48HFP is the world’s oldest and largest timed filmmaking competition – the granddaddy of them all. In just 48 hours, the film team makes their movie - writes it, shoots it, and edits it. The 48HFP’s mission is to advance filmmaking and promote filmmakers. The 48HFP has partnered with Cannes
for the last few years, featuring a small selection of the top 48HFP films from around the world as part
of the Short Film Corner.

THANK YOU FOR PLEASANT HOLIDAYS / ĎAKUJEM ZA KRÁSNE SVIATKY, SK | 2015 | 6 min. | fiction
Director: Samuel Spišák
A young depressed boy is longing for a new telescope for Christmas.
Contact: Na kolene Production | Samuel Spišák | +421 919 439 070 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
WWW.48 HOURFILM.COM

SLOVAK FILM INSTITUTE AT MARCHÉ DU FILM

This year, Slovak cinema is present at the Marché du Film’s Village International for the 13th time!

The pavilion traditionally serves as an information point for film professionals interested in Slovak cinema and audiovisual industry, as well as a networking place for Slovak film professionals and their international counterparts. New and upcoming Slovak films will be presented, with up-to-date promotional material, the traditional Slovak Films 15 – 16 catalogue, the Upcoming Slovak Films online database, and the Report on the Slovak Audiovisual Situation in 2015published by Creative Europe Desk Slovakia. Welcome to the Pavilion No. 133!

PAVILION NO. 133 CZECH REPUBLIC - SLOVAK REPUBLIC
VILLAGE INTERNATIONAL
MARCHÉ DU FILM

REPRESENTATI VES IN CANNES 2016
Peter Dubecký | General Manager | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Alexandra Strelková | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | +421 905 730 040
Imelda Selková | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | +421 905 546 994
Soňa Balážová | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | +421 905 422 281