LINES
| Opus Bonum | World Premiere
Director: Barbora Sliepková
SK | 2021 | 80 min. | documentary
Lines is a visual essay, a tangle of stories and observations set in the exemplary post-socialist city of Bratislava; a place experiencing dynamic transformation.
Festivals:
Roman Pivovarník / HITCHHIKER Cinema
+421 908 182 278
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www.hitchhikercinema.sk
Sales:
Nicole Brlej / HITCHHIKER Cinema
+421 905 768 805
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ORDEAL
| Czech Joy | World Premiere
Director: Zuzana Piussi
SK, CZ | 2021 | 75 min. | documentary
The law represents a fixed order of social relations. When this order is questioned, society finds itself immersed in uncertainty, in a fog. “Fog” is also the code name of the operation investigating the corruption of judges exposed in the Threema application found in the mobile phone of the infamous “entrepreneur” Marián Kočner. The documentary deals with what the Threema application exposed and the implications thereof. Through the (his)stories of the judges, entrepreneurs and ordinary people, the film maps out the consequences of the system of justice falling apart, which is fatal for the whole country, as well as for democracy.
Contacts:
VIRUSfilm
+421 951 490 550
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www.virusfilm.sk
D1film
+420 603 164 232
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www.d1film.com
HOW I BECAME A PARTISAN
| Czech Joy
Director: Vera Lacková
SK, CZ | 2021 | 90 min. | documentary
The feature-length documentary How I Became a Partisan comes with an unprecedented story of Slovak and Czech or, better, Czechoslovak, history.
The main theme of the movie is searching for the fate of forgotten Roma partisans. The author of the film is Roma director Vera Lacková. Her search for, and disclosure of, stories of Roma partisans is based primarily upon the life-story of her great-grandfather, the Roma partisan Ján Lacko. The autobiographical quest brings the director closer to previously unpublished facts from (Czecho) Slovak history.
Festivals:
Walter Nagy / East Silver Karavana
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Contact:
Media Voice
+421 948 289 007
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www.mediavoice.eu
LOVE, DAD
| Czech Joy
Director: Diana Cam Van Nguyen
CZ, SK | 2021 | 12 min. | animated documentary
A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. Through the film, Diana, the author rediscovers how the connection between herself and her dad fell silent. Dad used to write to her letters of love from prison. Now, 15 years later, Diana answers them. She still blames him for the family's break-up but also tries to understand.
Festivals & Sales:
Luce Grosjean / Miyu Distribution
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www.miyu.fr
Slovak Co-Producer:
nutprodukcia
+421 907 120 906
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www.nutprodukcia.sk
BLOOD KIN
| Czech Joy
Director: Miroslav Bambušek
CZ, SK, DE | 2021 | 85 min. | fiction
Otto Hille, a man from a Czech-German family, prepares an expedition for old and seriously ill Leopold Švarc, understood to be a cleansing experience to make amends for deeds long past. Švarc is accompanied by the loyal, autistic servant Mišel, his cook Jan and doctor Ignác. Otto takes on board insolvent painter Henry. The group sets out on a challenging trip to a large cave where they spend the night. Otto has a vision in which he can see an old event. Leo is aiming his gun at Otfried, his grandfather. Otto enters an old church, looking for atonement, and meets an apparition of his grandfather Otfried who takes him to the past, to 1945. Otto witnesses events that explain what he is carrying with him and Leopold Švarc is hiding.
Contacts:
freeSaM
+420 603 457 890
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www.freesam.org
atelier.doc
+421 904 610 694
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www.atelierdoc.sk
THE SAILOR
| Constellations
Director: Lucia Kašová
SK | 2021 | 80 min. | documentary
What is the price of freedom? Paul Johnson sailed the world all his life. He loved, drank and lived foolish, never truly living on land. Now he is turning eighty. Both him and his boat are unfit to sail. He drinks a liter of vodka a day and contemplates his life, his death. What is at the end of such a journey? Is there loneliness? What is the relationship between freedom and selfishness? Does fulfilling a dream always have a bitter end?
Festivals & Sales:
TOXPRO
+421 949 435 888
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www.toxpro.sk
TRANSLUCENT BEING: KAROL PLICKA
| Translucent Being: Karol Plicka
Retrospective section Translucent Being: Karol Plicka will spotlight the work of this important auteur of Czech-Slovak cinema. Plicka made multiple film in Slovakia that are now part of collections of Slovak Film Institute archive. Festival will screen five such films, including The Earth Sings which was awarded at the 2nd Venice film festival in 1934. Other Slovak films include: Visiting Slovaks from New York through to Mississippi, The President of the Republic dr. E. Beneš's visit, Over Hill and Dale, and Mr. President in Slovakia.
INDUSTRY PROGRAM
Ji.hlava New Visions
It's Not Your Fault, dir. Paula Ďurinová
Emerging Producers 2022
Silvia Panáková (ARINA film production)
Silver Eye Award Nominations
Lines, dir. Barbora Sliepková
WHTS: Fukušima, dir. Tomáš Krupa
PUBLICATIONS
Lenka Šturmankinová (*1988) is a Slovak illustrator and a designer usually working with mixed media.
The concept of cover design reflects the senses (in)directly engaged by audiovisual medium.
www.lenkasturmankinova.eu
MEET THE SLOVAK FILM INSTITUTE IN JI.HLAVA
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