The screening of short Czech and German films will get underway in Dresden’s Programkino Ost cinema on 18 October with the regular and popular event entitled Fein.KOšt - Feine Kurzfilme im Ost, which will be presenting the latest short films from both countries to the local public for the fourth time. Czech and German filmmakers will be participating in the evening. FeinKOšt will be taking place here as part of the 16th Czech/German Days of Culture. The presentation will then move in the following days to the German cinema in Großhennersdorfer and to Cinémathègue Leipzig in the city of the same name.
The audience will see a total of seven films in the programme. The films from the Czech Republic will be the animated Pandas by Matúš Vizár, a story of mankind interfering in an animal species’ most private area of life, a live-action film about a lonely misanthrope by Marek Ciccotti, set in a fast food chain, and another animated film Ham Story by Eliška Chytková – a tale of fantasy that has long been kept chained up and is set free with all its might.
The German short films will present a manifesto for short films entitled Short Film by Olaf Held, whose film Home won the main prize at the Prague Festival of Short Films this year in January. The other German films are the experimental The Big Rot from Susann-Maria Hempel, which is a cinematic farewell to the theatre in Greiz composed of slides, Izabela Plucinska’s Darling, which ponders the question of what is it like to lose your memory and you suddenly find you do not even recognise your own husband, and the documentary Blueberries (directed by Maja Nagel, Julius Günzel), which represents the wonderful region of the Muskauer Heide nature park in Germany’s Lusatia district, where people have been living in harmony with nature since time immemorial, but a brown coal surface mine is carving up the beautiful forests and slowly but surely destroying the entire area.
In November FeinKOšt will be moving to the Czech Republic and cinemagoers will have an opportunity to see the chosen films in Prague as part of the regular iShorts evenings in the Bio OKO cinema, where filmmakers from both countries will once again be presenting their films in person on 6 November from 8 p.m. The programme will then continue on to other cities such as Brno, Olomouc, Ostrava, Zlín, Jablonec nad Nisou, etc. This year’s presentation will be shown in Bratislava as well, in the INAK cinema.
You can find more information about the aforementioned short films and a detailed programme of the screenings at the www.filmcenter.cz/feinkost or www.ishorts.eu web sites.
The screenings are being organised by the Czech Film Center and AG Kurzfilm in cooperation with the iShorts association and it was supported by the Deutsch-Tschechischer Zukunftsfonds, the Brücke/Most Foundation as well as the company German Films.
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