Young filmmakers also have a chance to develop their abilities at international workshops, training programmes and forums where they can get advice from experienced filmmakers and assistance for their own projects. Some of the most important events Slovakia is also involved in are Midpoint, DOK.Incubator, Visegrad Film Forum and Visegrad Animation Forum. The international Midpoint […]
Best Feature Film in 2012 and 2013, Best Director and Best Script – Mira Fornay won in these three categories with My Dog Killer (Môj pes Killer) at the National Sun in a Net Awards announced by the Slovak Film and Television Academy. The gala award-presentation ceremony took place on 26th April. “In addition to […]
Slovak applicants in the audiovision domain may acquire support for their project from both the Creative Europe programme and the Eurimages fund. “2014 was a successful year for Slovak applicants, as the total support provided achieved a record amount, and the number of successful applicants increased in sub-programmes where we were only sporadically successful in […]
The AVF also Supports International Projects The Slovak Audiovisual Fund (AVF) is a public institution for the support and development of audiovisual culture and industry. It has been operating since 2009 and providing support since 2010. Many of the films you will read about in this magazine have been supported by the AVF. And, in […]
Silence That Remains Tacit In Silence is a film based on long-term research by Slovak musicologist Agáta Schindlerová who specialises in the fates of Jewish musicians under Nazism. It arrives in the cinema at a time when it emerges yet again that the participation of the First Slovak Republic in the deportations and persecution of […]
Daughters and Sons, Mothers and Fathers Jaro Vojtek has been making documentaries since the mid-1990s and has received awards for them at home and abroad. Just from glancing at his filmography, it is quite obvious that he is attracted to topics usually denoted as “social”, in particular to the topic of man entrenched or imprisoned […]
Freedom as Punishment The full-length documentary début of one of the most successful filmmakers of the young generation, Miro Remo, shows that it is virtually impossible to extricate oneself artfully uses mood-creating musical motifs which humanise the unappealing anti-heroes. It is a mosaic of attractions rather than a coherent story. Miro Remo has had a […]
NAJNAVŠTEVOVANEJŠIE FILMY V KINE LUMIÈRE ► DECEMBER 2014 1. Ida (r. Paweł Pawlikowski, Poľsko/Dánsko, 2013, ASFK – Projekt 100) 2. Comeback (r. Miro Remo, Slovensko, 2014, ASFK) 3. Pulp Fiction: Historky z podsvetia (r. Quentin Tarantino, USA, 1994, ASFK – Projekt 100) 4. 2001: Vesmírna odysea (r. Stanley Kubrick, VB/USA, 1968, ASFK – Projekt 100) […]
NAJPREDÁVANEJŠIE PUBLIKÁCIE A DVD NOSIČE V PREDAJNI SFÚ ► JANUÁR 2015 PUBLIKÁCIE 1. František Gyárfáš a Juraj Malíček: Naše filmové storočie (SFÚ, Bratislava) 2. Cinepur 96/2014, téma: Das Kino – Současný německý film (Sdružení přátel Cinepuru, Praha) 3. A. A. Tarkovskij: Krása je symbolem pravdy (Camera obscura, Příbram) AUDIOVIZUÁLNE NOSIČE 1. DVD Týždeň vo filme […]
Film a dějiny 4. Normalizace Petr Kopal (ed.) (Casablanca a Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů, Praha, 2014, 664 strán) Keď plénum štátostrany nazvalo represívny režim nastolený po okupácii normalizáciou a konečnosť „konsolidácie“ pomerov bola vo hviezdach (hlavne v tej na veži Kremľa), dezilúzia z pretnutia katarzne pôsobiaceho spoločenského vzopätia a vynucovanie konformistickej adaptácie spustené kádrovými […]
Lekce filmu Laurent Tirard (preklad Alena Smithee, Dokořán, Praha, 2014, 356 strán) Z doterajších piatich filmov režiséra Tirarda (*1967) je u nás najznámejšia komédia Mikulášove šibalstvá (2009). Tirard, ktorý študoval a pôsobil v USA, má však za sebou aj prax filmového publicistu a z rozhovorov s velikánmi filmovej réžie zostavil pozoruhodnú knihu. Pri interview s […]
Z kina sa neodchádza! Na sklonku minulého roka vydal Slovenský filmový ústav knihu Naše filmové storočie. Dvaja kinofili František Gyárfáš a Juraj Malíček sa v nej s čitateľmi podelili o názory na svoje obľúbené filmy. Nie každý vybraný film zaujal aj toho druhého a práve dynamika rozdielnych osobností je to, čo malo hlavný vplyv na celú […]
