24th October, Thursday – 18.00-20.00
The Mazovia Institute of Culture– Elektoralna 12

EMiGRA – LITERATURE

18.00-20.00
Emigration – Double identity – meeting with the writer Manuela Gretkowska and Brygida Helbig-Mischewski – Polish writer living in Berlin. Excerpts from the author's books will be read by Maria Maj – actress TR Warszawa. The meeting is moderated by Elżbieta Szymańska (MIK) and Romuald Mieczkowski (Vilnius)

25 October, Friday – 18.00 – 22.00
The Mazovia Institute of Culture– Elektoralna 12

OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL (invitations only)

18.00
Struggle: The Life and lost works of Stanisław Szukalski-dir. Ireneusz Dobrowolski, USA 2018, 115 min.
Special guests – Anna and Ireneusz Dobrowolscy, creator of the film about Stanisław Szukalski. The meeting is moderated by film journalist Anna Tatarska

26 October, Saturday – 12.00-22.00
The Mazovia Institute of Culture– Elektoralna 12

EMiGRA – LITERATURE

11.30-13.00
Tajemniczy sojusznik / Secret Sharer – dir. Piotr Fudakowski, UK 2014, 103 min.
Joseph Conrad or Józef Korzeniowski? – Meeting with Magda Heydel, translator of English literature and author of translations of works by Joseph Conrad. The interview will be conducted by the editor and journalist Wojciech Szot.

14.00-15.30 – special screening
Niebo bez gwiazd / A Sky Without Stars – dir. Katarzyna Dąbkowska, Poland 2018, 52 min.
Meeting with the film’s protagonist Robert Zarzecki and Katarzyna Dąbkowska.

EMiGRA – FAR MIDDLE EAST

15.40-17.40
Arabic Secret – dir. Julia Groszek, Poland 2019, 65 min.
Tożsamość w czasach globalizacji – spotkanie z Haliną Chehab, tłumaczką książki Amina Maaloufa Zabójcze tożsamości i bohaterem filmu Kamilem Filipkiem – prowadzi Monika Antkiewicz
Identity in times of globalization – Meeting with Halina Chehab, the translator Amina Maalouf’s book entitled “Deadly Identity” and the film’s protagonist of the film Kamil Filipek – moderated by Monika Antkiewicz

17.50-18.40
Polskie orlęta na pakistańskim niebie / Polish Eaglets Over Pakistan – dir. Anna Teresa Pietraszek, Poland 2008, 51 min.

EMiGRA – KOMEDA

19.00
Exile from Paradise – Komeda by Żądło – Concert of Krzysztof Komedy Music performed by Leszek Żądło (Munich)
About Komeda, Zośka and others- ameeting with the stepson of Krzysztof Komeda, Tomasz Lachem. The interview will be led by Artur Wolski and Elżbieta Szymańska (MIK)

20.00
Komeda – muzyczne ścieżki życia / Komeda. A Soundtack For Life – dir. Claudia Buthenhoff-Duffy, Poland 2010, 52 min.

24-27 October, Sala Elektorska MIK
Komeda Exhibition – The Calendar of life – Andrzej Rumianowski’s exhibition based on the materials from the archives of Zofia Komedno-Trzcińska transferred to the Museum of Jazz by her son Tomasz Lach

27th October, Sunday – 12.00-17.00
The Mazovia Institute of Culture– Elektoralna 12

EMiGRA – EGZOTICA

11.00-11.50
Los Polacos –Anna Plaszczyk, Maciej Lubczański, Poland 2008, 24 min. Special guest – Ela Borrell-Alvarez (Cuba/Berlin)

EMiGRA ON A RED CANADIAN COUCH

12.00-13.30
Red couch story –Ela Kinowska  and Piotr Sobierajski, Canada 2019, 52 min. Special guests – Ela Kinowska (Kyrgyzstan /Canada) and Piotr Sobierajski (Canada)

EMiGRA – SPORT

14.40-15.10
Tylko krew / Just Blood – dir. Grzegorz Jankowski, Poland/USA 2019, 27 min. Special guests – Janusz Kozioł i Janusz Pindera. The meeting will be moderated by Sławomir Sobczak (Chicago)

EMiGRA – LITERATURE

15.50-18.30
Gombrowicz. I, genius. I, emigrant – meeting with Klementin Suchanow – author of the biography of Witold Gombrowicz. The interview will be led by Brygida Helbig-Mischewski (Berlin) and Elżbieta Szymańska (MIK)

27th October, Sunday – 19.00-21.00
The Mazovia Institute of Culture– Elektoralna 12

Festival Awards ceremony (invitations only)

Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass in the memories of Leszek Żądło (Munich)

26th October, Saturday – 16.00-20.00
Meeting History House –  Karowa 20

EMiGRA – HISTORY

16.00
Izrael zaczął się w Polsce / Israel Started in Poland – dir. Jan Grzyb, Filip Frąckowiak, TVP Polonia 2018, 56 min. Meeting with the creators of the film – Jan Grzybe and Filip Frąckowiak (TVP Polonia) – Led by Tomasz Kuba Kozłowski (Meeting History House)

PREMIERE

18.00
Żołnierze niechciani – Błękitna Armia – reż. Piotr Latałło, Polska/USA 2019, 50 min. Spotkanie z twórcami filmu – Maciejem Kuszewskim i Sławomirem Sobczakiem (Chicago) – prowadzi Tomasz Kuba Kozłowski (DSH)

27th October, Sunday at 13.00
Meeting History House –  Karowa 20

EMiGRA – HISTORY

13.00
Strajk / Strike – dir. Volker Schlöndorff, Poland/Germany 2007, 104 min. Special guest – Dr. Tomasz Snarski (Gdańsk). The meeting will be led by Tomasz Kuba Kozłowski (DSH)

27th October, Sunday – 12.00-17.00
Pożyteczna Cafe – Nowy Świat 58

COMPETITION FILMS

Pokucka troja – dir. Mirosław Rowicki, Studio Filmowe Kuriera Galicyjskiego, Lviv 2018, 21 min.

Portret / Portrait – dir. Olga Wasilewicz, Belarus/Poland 2019, 11 min.

I stało się pięknem  – dir. Sol Janik, Argentina 2019, 62 min.

Podróż / Journey– di. Mariola Wiśniowska, Poland/Germany 2017, 12 min.

My Womb – dir. Martina Trepczyk, Austria 2018, 4 min.

Gdy prysły zmysły - Magdalena Marszałkowska and Małgorzata Wojcieszyńska, Austria/Slovakia 2018, 5 min.

Walc dla motyla – realizacja Magdalena Marszałkowska and Małgorzata Wojcieszyńska, Austria/Slovakia 2019, 5 min.

Zaćmienia / The Blackouts– dir. Oliwia Tonteri, Jerem Tonteri, Finland 2018 , 53 min.

Phantom – dir. Sebastian Królak, UK/Italy 2018, 10 min.

Cudzoziemcy w Powstaniu Warszawskim / Foreigners in the Warsaw Uprising – dir. Małgorzata Brama, Poland 2018, 38 min.

Lot do wolności / Flight To Freedom – dir. Grzegorz Linkowski, TVP 2019, 52 min.

Pomiędzy / In Between – dir. Monika Meleń, TVP 2018, 19 min.

The organizers reserve the right to change the program.

EU Budget 2021-2027

09/10: Communication: Time to decide on the Union’s financial framework for 2021-2027 – European Commission

The European Commission’s contribution to the European Council meeting on 17-18 October 2019

Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU

18/10: Finland presented work on implementation of EU Strategic Agenda – eu2019.fi

The European Council discussed the follow-up to the Strategic Agenda for 2019–2024 in Brussels on 18 October 2019. Finland is now the first presidency to integrate the priorities of the Agenda, adopted in June, into the Council’s practical work. Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne informed the EU leaders of the progress made in the implementation.

European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO)

09/10: The independence of media regulatory authorities in Europe - EAO

Europe’s main piece of media legislation – the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) – was recently revised and a new version entered into force last autumn. This new AVMSD introduces an obligation for EU member states to designate one or more independent national regulatory authorities to oversee the broadcasting and audiovisual media sector in Europe.

10/10: Just ahead of BREXIT deadline, UK once again named the largest audiovisual market in greater Europe – EAO

European Audiovisual Observatory publishes 2018 Data on Audiovisual Media Services in Europe from the Mavise Database.

Events:

24 October: Second Shadow Rapporteurs’ meeting, Creative Europe Programme, Brussels (TBC) 

4 November: UNIC/Europa Distribution/FERA/FIAD Screening, Brussels

4-5 November: CULT Committee meeting, Brussels

5 November: Second Copyright Stakeholders’ Dialogue, Brussels 

5-6 November: Voices of Culture Structured Dialogue on Gender Balance in the Cultural & Creative Sectors Dialogue Meeting with the European Commission, Brussels

6 November: Optional fourth technical interinstitutional meeting, Creative Europe Programme, Brussels 

6-7 November: IMCO Committee meeting, Brussels

6-7 November: JURI Committee meeting, Brussels

11-12 November: ITRE Committee meeting, Brussels  

21-22 November: Education, Youth, Culture and Sports Council, Brussels  

1 December: European Commission comes into office (TBC)

Recent Studies:

EUIPO - IPR-intensive industries and economic performance in the European Union - September 2019

EAO - Amazon is the biggest buyer of EU films for SVOD release outside of Europe - September 2019

European Parliament - Research for CULT Committee - Culture and creative sectors in the
European Union – Key future developments, challenges and opportunities

Fourth edition of Czech Joy in the Spotlight is once again organized by Czech Film Fund / Czech Film Center and Ji.hlava International Documentarty Film Festival (24. - 29. 10. 2019). The presentation and short previews of 10 brand new Czech documentaries will be held for Industry pass holders on Saturday, October 26, 2019 from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM in the Industry Zone, Lighthouse, Masarykovo náměstí.

PROJECTS

FREM

directed by: Viera Čákanyová
produced by: Hypermarket Film
CZ, SK 2019 / 73 min

A documentary essay, a requiem for the vanishing species of Homo sapiens. Through the stories of three protagonists, the film maps the situation before the turning point, the last period when we are still human - in the old, nostalgic sense of the word. What are the attributes that characterize us and what are the motivations of people who want to change them and take them to the next level?

SCREENINGS & CONTACT

I WANT YOU IF YOU DARE

directed by: Dagmar Smržová
produced by: moloko film
CZ 2019 / 84 min

A film about disabled women and their desires. The story is spiced by the extrovert nature of the heroines and the controversial situations they are captured in. The main character,  Jana, 27, has DMO and can’t move. She’s been searching for intimate assistants on the Internet for a long time, wanting to experience love making and have at least a sense of normal life. Her mother, instead of stepping out of a vicious circle of unsuccessful relationships and addictions, seeks help for herself, Jane and her second daughter, blind Katherine, in dark powers and tarot cards.

SCREENINGS & CONTACT

KINGS OF SUMAVA

directed by: Kris Kelly
produced by: Bionaut
CZ, IR 2019 / 70 min

An animated documentary feature film tells the remarkable story of Josef Hasil, an ordinary man who became a legend. This is a never-before-told tale of adventure and espionage, of heroism and moral choices that explores the struggle of one man against an authoritarian regime and the sacrifices he had to make.

SCREENINGS & CONTACT

KIRUNA - A BRAND NEW WORLD

directed by: Greta Stocklassa
produced by: Analog Vision
CZ 2019 / 87 min

Apocalyptic depiction of an area literally engulfed by the mining industry is presented in this documentary that observes the eponymous northern Swedish city, part of which was abandoned due to activities in the nearby iron mine. The mining company’s management decided not to halt profitable mining activities and instead made the decision to move the residents of the threatened district. Using footage shot in the city inside the Arctic Circle and directly in the mines, the director has uncovered subtle film imagery, and using the stories of three protagonists now living in a bizarre inter-time, imaginatively addresses the topics of resettlement, tradition, and respect for a particular location.

SCREENINGS & CONTACT

NEVER HAPPENED

directed by: Barbora Berezňáková
produced by: Leon Productions (SK), Frame Films (CZ)
SK, CZ 2019 / 82 min

After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Slovakia was ruled by charismatic and autocratic Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar. In 1995, the president’s son, Michal Kováč Junior, was abducted; it soon became clear that the abduction was probably ordered by the highest government circles. Oskar Fegyveres, who worked for the Slovak Information Service back then and who participated in the abduction by order of his superiors, testified to the police about the role of the secret service in the case. Since he did not feel safe, he fled abroad. He communicated with his family through his friend Robo Remiáš. Less than a year after the abduction, Robo died under unclear circumstances in a car explosion...

SCREENINGS & CONTACT

SOLO

directed by: Artemio Benki
produced by: Artcam Films
CZ, FR, AR, AT 2019 / 84 min

Martín P. is a young Argentinean piano virtuoso and composer, who has been since his breakdown four years ago a patient of El Borda, the largest and the most notable but also controversial psychiatric hospital in Latin America. The child prodigy and the most promising talent of his generation is now trying to find a way how to overcome his mental disease and come back to life outside the walls of the asylum and on the concert stages, while working on his new composition Enfermaria. Solo tells unique, yet universal story about the obsession with perfection and creation, narrating the evolution of a human being who draws his strength from his own fragility.

SCREENINGS & CONTACT

THE SOUND IS INNOCENT

directed by: Johana Ožvold
produced by: Cinémotif Films
CZ, FR, SK 2019 / 68

The Sound Is Innocent is a playful and poetic journey through the history of the electronic sound. The music is a game. And for creating the electronic music the main tool and toy is an instrument. Our guide in this musical playground is Johana, music composer and director of this film. For her, electronic music allows a wide range of free artistic expression. But how to find a direction in this seemingly endless space? She decides to set off on an odyssey to find out some advices. Johana escapes into the dreamlike space beyond time, the world of imagination. It is a recording studio; an almost mythical space where we visit contemporary representatives of different music movements and approaches towards a musical instrument.

SCREENINGS & CONTACT

COMMUNISM AND THE NET OR THE END OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

directed by: Karel Vachek
produced by: Background Films
CZ 2019 / 335 min

A new film essay by Karel Vachek is a collage composed of staged passages of utopian and contemporary literature, his own memories as well as tableaux of world events. Apart from Vachek, actors also present texts and become opponents, partners, an ancient chorus and a modern voice band reciting amongst the hundreds of books in libraries. And to boot, music plays and jollity is the order of the day.
According to Vachek the next revolution will take place on the internet and bureaucrats will only carry out tasks which have been approved by citizens in referendums. And it will be no idyllic stroll. Even the French Revolution was horrific. But nonetheless - thanks to it we became citizens.

SCREENINGS & CONTACT

TWO ROADS

directed by: Radovan Síbrt
produced by: PINK
CZ 2019 / 80 min

What would you do with your life, if you knew that you have a limited time ahead of you? Much shorter than an average life? Members of The Tap Tap - a music band made up of physically disabled - or rather crippled as they would call themselves - students of Jedlička Institute in Prague have a pretty clear idea. They want to live and enjoy every single minute of it. The Tap Tap orchestra shows how to confront difficulties and obstacles. And above all, how to have fun in your life. The members of the band are strong personalities with a direct attitude to life. They drink, smoke, curse, love, as long as they enjoy it. The film explores the spirit of survival and the wild lust for life against all the odds.

SCREENINGS & CONTACT

VIDEO VIVA, VIVA VIDEO

directed by: Adéla Komrzý
produced by: UPP
CZ 2019 / 85 min

The film happens to be directed by the granddaughter of Radek Pilař, well known creator of beloved Czech children animated series such as Rumcajs and somewhat less known as a pioneer of video art in Czechoslovakia. The documentary brushes the dust off of those old VHS tapes to get a glimpse of early electronic images in our country and uncover the yet unmapped history of pre-revolution Czech video art. Decades later they all “videists” still share their enthusiasm, obsessive curiosity, and futuristic visions about the use of new technologies for artistic expression.

SCREENINGS & CONTACT

The media accreditation to the 23rd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival akaPÖFF and the audiovisual industry platform Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event is ongoing. The festival takes place from the 15th of November until the 1st of December in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia. 

All active journalists, film critics, bloggers, photographers, influencers and other social media content producers are welcome to apply.

This year the media representatives have two options to choose from:

1) the regular PRESS badge is free of charge gives you access to all press screenings, press events and all of the open industry events.

2) The PRESS+ accreditation will give you access to the festival's press and regular screenings, press events and all of the open industry events. The early bird price for the accreditation fee is 35 EUR, valid till the 31st of October. Starting from the 1st of November the accreditation is at the regular price - 50 EUR.

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PRESS RELEASES

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PRESS OFFICE CONTACTS

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Dear friends of the Slovak Film Institute,

we are thrilled to present the Slovak line-up at the 76th Venice International Film Festival (August 28 – September 7, 2019)!

Long-awaited The Painted Bird by Václav Marhoul was selected for the Main Competition and short animated SH_T HAPPENS by directing duo David ŠtumpfandMichaela Mihályi will world premiere within Orizzonti Short Film Competition. Furthermore, representatives of two upcoming co-productions will take part in theVenice Gap-Financing Market.

The Painted Bird

fiction | CZ-SK-UA | 2019 | 169 min.

Based on the acclaimed Jerzy Kosiński novel, The Painted Bird is a meticulous 35mm black and white evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II.

The film follows the journey of The Boy, entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies and The Boy is on his own, wandering through the countryside, from village to village, farmhouse to farmhouse. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers through extraordinary brutality meted out by the ignorant, superstitious peasants and he witnesses the terrifying violence of the efficient, ruthless soldiers, both Russian and German.

SCREENINGS:
September 2 | 20:00 | Sala Darsena *press & industry
September 2 | 21:00 | Sala Perla *press & industry
September 3 | 16:45 | Sala Grande *world premiere
September 4 | 16:45 | PalaBiennale

SH_T HAPPENS

animation | CZ-SK-FR | 2019 | 13 min.

The caretaker exhausted by everything, his frustrated wife and one totally depressed deer. Their despair leads them to absurd events, because... shit happens all the time.

SCREENINGS:
August 29 | 16:30 | PalaBiennale
September 6 | 11:15 | Sala Giardino *press & industry
September 6 | 17:15 | Sala Giardino *world premiere
September 7 | 16:30 | Sala Giardino

CONTACT:
BFILM, Alexandra Gabrižová (festivals), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
NEXT FILM DISTRIBUTION, Anthony Trihan (sales), This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Venice Gap-Financing Market

My Sunny Maad
CZ-FR-SK

by Michaela Pavlátová

When Herra, a Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in the post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join. A grandfather who is a feminist, an adopted young boy who astounds with his intellect, and Freshta who will do anything to run away from her abusive husband. Like the other women in the family, Herra wears a burka and hides in a closet when guests arrive. She soon starts a new job with an American woman, Heidi, who has little understanding of the way women live in Afghanistan, and even less that not everybody wants to be saved by the Westerners. 

CONTACT:
Negativ, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,www.negativ.cz

Charlatan
CZ-IE-PL-SK
by Agnieszka Holland

Drama of an extraordinary man, reflecting the age-old struggle of two principles that control humanity from the very beginning. Good and evil. Love and hate, cruelty and mercy, faith and betrayal. In one person on the background of historical twists. Mikolášek's extraordinary abilities are redeemed in battle with his own demons who force him into cynical violence.

CONTACT:
Marlene Film Production, 
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www.marlenefilmproduction.com

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