SLOVAK FILMS AT KARLOVY VARY IFF June 29 - July 7, 2012 Out of the Past k k out of thepast contact kSlovakFilmInstitute , +42125710 1503,[email protected],www.sfu.sk cinema ofthe 1960s. life inurban andruralsettings.The filmisconsideredthe beginningoftheNew Wave inSlovakandCzech adult life. Itisthe veryfirstSlovakfilm totakeon the themeofnatural differencesofvaluesand social cism andrejection towards societyinanattempt to hidetheirinsecurities, lackofexperience andfear of The Sunina Net isa lyricalstory abouttheemotions arisingamongtwo youngpeoplewhopretend cyni- director kŠtefan Uher cs –196290min. fiction (Slnko vsieti) THE SUNIN ANET editor kBedřichVoděrka 04.07. 01.07. k k 18:30 16:30

k k Cinema B Pupp screenplay kAlfonz Bednár cast kMariánBielik,JanaBeláková, OľgaŠalagová,EliškaNosáľová,Pavol Chrobák

dop kStanislavSzomolányi music kIljaZeljenka

of thefilmStanislav Szomolányiinperson. anniversary ofthefilm,introduced bythecinematographer festival sectionOutofthePast ontheoccasionof50th The Nine A / 1964:TheOrgan1962: TheSuninaNet/1961:Class A Gun/1967:ThreeDaughters /1966: TheWonder-Maid ing For TheMoon/1972:JavorandJuliana 1971: IfIHad Museum /1986:TheSixthSentence / 1982:SheKept Cry- filmography (selected) Department. vision Faculty astheheadofFilmandTVDirecting he contributed to theopeningofFilmandTele- Academy ofPerforming Arts inBratislava,after 1990 tional awards.From1983,hewasaprofessor atthe His filmsbroughthimanumberofnationaland interna- Szomolányi. writer Alfonz Bednárandcinematographer Stanislav Studios, Uherstarted workingwithauthor andscreen- directing debutClassNineAin1961.At theFictionFilm 1960, hejoinedtheFictionFilmStudiosandmade his med DocumentaryFilmStudio)inBratislava.InMarch at theStudioofArtisticDocumentaryFilms(later rena- Arts -FAMU inPrague (1949-55).Heworkedasadirector Film andTelevision Faculty oftheAcademy ofPerforming Director andscreenwriter. Studiedfilmdirectingatthe ŠTEFAN UHER(1930,prievidza-1993,) Sun inaNetispresented ondigitallyrestored printinthe k 1988: Curator OfTheOpen-Air Uher had respectfor myprofession. tographer, this kindof direction isideal. Andalso, were equalelements of thefilm. For everycinema - speech. Inother words,theimageand thedialogues speech ofthe characters wasreplacedbycinematic was possible. Onecould saythatinhismovies, the language of the imageandcutdialogues whereverit collaboration wentsmoothly. Uheremphasizedthe handling imageswassimilar to myownandsoour ity to adapt to variousfilmdirectors. Uher’swayof The essenceofa cinematographer’s workistheabil- ceptional experience? Štefan Uher. Didyoufind workingwithhima ex- and started yourcollaboration withfilmdirector After graduation,you joinedtheShortFilmStudio The changeofthinkingcame withtheera. and helpedeachother’s development andprogress. a very creativesymbiosis, weinfluencedoneother shared myvision.Within thefilmcrews,there existed leagues startingtheircareers atthesametimeI did, a different taste. Andit mustbeaddedthatmanycol- films. Itwasmorethatjusta matter ofpresenting my wayofseeingtheworldandopinionsinto my giving somethingofmyself, I wanted to implement generations. I decidedto makefilms witha desireof differences broughtonthediscussionofchanging and theoldergenerationofcinematographers. These way ofthinkingandstylefilmmakingbetween us films thatwediscoveredcertaindifferencesin the on myworkanditwasnotuntilwesawtheresulting I was notawareofa generationalchange. I focused When I firstentered thegameasa cinematographer, tion introducedto Slovakcinema? What inspiredthechangeofstylethatyourgenera - titles Szomolányi worked on, will be available inthe festival shop inthe Thermal Hotel during the whole duration of Karlovy Vary IFF. The monography entitled Kameraman Stanislav Szomolányi by the film theorist Richard Blech (inSlovak), aswell as DVDs with thearchive author: pavel smejkal). magazine (published by theslovak filminstitute, excerpt from the interview publishedinthe organ dvd teamwork. between us,whichisthe prerequisite ofsuccessful sion onUher. Therewasa uniqueprofessional trust with everysceneandI think thismadeanimpres- about solvingtechnical tasks.I wanted to identify that Ihadwanted to make. Mywork wasnotonly suffering. TheSunina Net wasjustthekindofmovie us to express a notionthroughimages–likejoy or Already backattheFAMU FilmSchool,theytaught also wanted to express somemeanings symbolically. authentic portraitofthe life ofyoungpeople. We When shootingTheSun ina Net,wewentfor an What wasisitlikeworking onthisfilm? was thegroundbreakingfeature TheSunina Net. The firstmovieŠtefan Uherandyoumade together to dealwithit. revealed anissueandleftitup to the audience issues buthedidnotnecessarilysolvethem.He never preaching.Inhisfilms,heopenedupcertain a need to passonhisthoughts to others.Buthewas he worriedaboutsomemoralorsocialissues, felt dled hissubjectmatter ina complex manner. When I always consideredhimanabsolute artistwhohan- Uher wasmorethanjustanexcellent filmmaker. makers youworkedwithinthepast? How wasŠtefan Uherdifferentfromotherfilm- director Štefan Uher. of hisworkare, however, the filmshemadewith as MartinHollý orStanislavBarabáš. Inthecenter the 60s.He co-operated withseveral directors, such generation, which changedtheface ofSlovakfilm in significant representatives ofthecinematographic ST ( ST 1935, bánovce nad bebravou) ANISLAV SZOMO LÁNYI isoneofthe most ANISLAV SZOMOL ÁNYI

INTERVIEW WITH THE CINEMATOGRAPHER STANISLAV SZOMOLÁNYI STANISLAV CINEMATOGRAPHER THE WITH INTERVIEW East of the West - Films in Competition festivals kOutCome/Uta Gildhuis,+420606726 737, [email protected], www.outcome.cz k contact kProtos Productions/ Barbara Kipsová,+42124446 2747, [email protected], www.protos.sk a partofand alsoreflects thegirls’motives towards making harshlife altering decisions, whichcanseemimmoral whenlookedatsimply fromthesurface. a worldofjadedseamstresses allwaitingfor the arrivaloftheirGermanprinces.Thefilmauthentically depicts themundanesurroundingsthatDorotkaquickly becomes After graduatingfromhighschool,Dorotkaleaves hernativeSlovakia to findworkintheCzechborder townof Aš. Uponarriving,sheisimmediately confronted with world premierek47thKarlovy Vary IFF Rozhlas atelevízia Slovenska(SK),atelier.doc (SK),partizanfilmHulapa film(SK) director kIvetaGrófová sk, cz–201280min. –fiction (Až domesta Aš) MADE IN ASH k k k k east ofthe west -filmsincompetition k endorfilm / Jiří Konečný , +420602358 373, [email protected], www.endorfilm.cz 04.07. 01.07. 30.06. 29.06. k k k k 20:30 kCinema A 10:00 kCas Cinema 13:00 kPupp 18:00 kCinema C cast kDorotaBillá,SilviaHalušicová, Robin Horkýproduction kProtos Productions(SK),endorfilm (CZ),Punkchartfilms(SK),Česká televize(CZ),

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condemned immoral. ing them to rough life-changing decisions, bymost as possible. I wanted to capture themotivation lead- the departure to Germany or a brothel as accurately capture the process oftheirfirstjob inthe factory to girls duringa longer timeperiod,inorder for meto important for meto tell thestory ofmaximum two with thatran off to Germany too quickly. Itwas somebody reliable. There wereseveralwomenI shot to godeeperand,atthe sametime, I neededto find / cannotopenly andsincerelytalkabout. I needed life oftheserealwomenwhichtheydon‘twant to supporting them,I amentering a particularpartof factory for a brothel,orhaveGermanpensioners situation, graduallyexchange theworkina textile shoot a filmaboutgirls who, due to theirbad social The leadingfemale roleswerea problem.IfI want to are nowpartofthefilm. and I shotseveralpurely documentarysceneswhich to thefilm, oneswhoarerepresentingthemselves this technique, I slowlyincorporated authenticpeople I was preparingto shoota documentaryfilm.With I selected real exteriors, gotto knowthepeople. At thebeginning, I usedto visitAšfor research. options? film andwhy?Didit extend thedramaturgical documentary. Whendidyouchangeitto a fiction The filmwasoriginallydevelopedasa time-lapse the firstdraftof story. turned to thesememoriesandstarted to write back to momveryquickly. At thefilmschool Ire- I wasveryshockedbythatenvironmentandran I spentseveralmonthsbehindthesewingmachine. for a while. Accidentally, IendedupinAš,where my universitystudiesandI alsowanted to getaway After highschool,I wanted to earnsomemoney for How didyoufindthestory ofyourfilm? working at. working at. to whichofthesestories Igivepriority andIstart cancer andtheir environment.I’mnot sureyetmyself absurd situations thatoriginate betweenpeople with Jump Cuts ( I wasableto gathermaterial for an omnibusfilm the SlovakLeague againstCancer. Thanksto this, On along-term basis,I’ve beenco-operatingwith of hisownbigdiscotheque. business men”andthelife ofagoodguydreaming edge ofthe“criminalunderworld offat-necked 90´s It isanauthenticfilmabout thelife ofamanat the Fero, a discoownerontheCzech-German borders. One ofthemisthefilm Discoboyabouta Slovakguy naturally, I started developing newprojects, aswell. On projects? Are youhoweverworking onnewstories and Made inAshissettingoffon to the festival circuit. Kieślowski. Fassbinder orthedocumentaries byKrzysztof definitely influenced me. Justasfilmsby Rainer Werner A positiveone. HisModelsareoneofthefilmsthat Seidl. What’syourrelationshipto hiswork? Your filmcouldslightlyremindoffilmsbyUlrich documentary. in amoretruthfulway, thanbymeanofa“pure” for afictionfilm.Inthis wayIcouldpresentthe story Marek Leščák, wewrote anew, moreaccurate script and basedonthepreviouslyobserved,together with actresses, DorotaandSilvia,to the authentic settings shooting. I“implemented” twonon-professional That iswhyIchoseto changethemethod ofthe Made inAshIworkedfor severalyears,and, Prestrihy) risingfrom everydayandoften filmography (2004). (2007) andtheshort animation There Was 11 of Us Quality (2005), Goodbye Party (2005),GuestWorkers short documentary At Least (2003),ThePolitics of Bratislava’s Academy ofPerforming Arts. Directed and theFaculty ofDocumentary Film(2009)atthe Graduated fromtheFaculty ofAnimated Film(2004) IVET A GRÓFOVÁ (1980,trenčín) Made in Ashisher debut fiction feature. k 2012:

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BELLS OF HAPPINESS ALOIS NEBEL THE BLUE TIGER CONFIDANT DONT STOP LIDICE (Zvonky šťastia) (Alois Nebel) (Modrý tiger) (eŠTeBák) (DONT STOP) (Lidice) sk – 2012 – 62 min. – documentary cz, de, sk – 2011 – 84 min. – animation cz, de, sk – 2012 – 90 min. – fiction sk, cz, pl – 2011 – 118 min. – fiction cz, sk – 2012 – 98 min. – fiction cz, sk – 2011 – 126 min. – fiction directors k Jana Bučka, Marek Šulík director k Tomáš Luňák cast k Miroslav Krobot, directors k Petr Oukropec, Bohdan Sláma director k Juraj Nvota cast k Jiří Mádl, Michaela director k Richard Řeřicha cast k Patrik Děrgel, director k Petr Nikolaev hrajú k Karel Roden, Zuzana cast k Mariena Mirgová, Roman Lacko Marie Ludvíková, Karel Roden, Leoš Noha, Alois Švehlík cast k Jan Hartl, Barbora Hrzánová, Linda Votrubová, Majerníková, Ondřej Vetchý, Jan Budař, Ady Hajdu Lukáš Reichl, Jiří Kocman, Kristína Svarinská Bydžovská, Zuzana Fialová, Ondřej Novák, Roman Luknár production k OZ Žudro (SK), Punkchart films (SK), production k Negativ (CZ), Pallas Film (DE), Jakub Wunsch, Daniel Drewes production k Attack film (SK), Česká televize (CZ), production k Evolution Films (CZ), production k Movie (CZ), Magic Box (CZ), Magic Box Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska (SK) Tobogang (SK), Česká televize (CZ) production k Negativ (CZ), Blinker Filmproduktion (DE), Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska (SK), FilmFrame (SK), HBO (CZ) (SK), Česká televize (CZ), Rozhlas a televízia international premiere k 47th Karlovy Vary IFF world premiere k 68th Venice IFF Meike Martens (DE), ARINA (SK), Rozhlas a televíza MaxiFilm&TV (CZ), Apple Film Production (PL) website k www.dontstop.cz Slovenska (SK) website k www.aloisnebel.cz Slovenska (SK), Česká televize (CZ) website k www.estebak.sk website k www.filmlidice.cz Pregnant Mariena and her cousin Roman live with their It’s 1983 and punk has finally clawed its way to Normali- international premiere k TIFF Kids 2012 families in a poor Roma settlement in Eastern Slovakia. The film is an adaptation of a graphic novel and combi- After finishing the compulsory military service at the zation Czechoslovakia. Eighteen-year-old Miki together FThe film depicts the most horrendous event in modern website k www.modrytygr.cz They admire two Czecho-Slovak pop stars – nes animation and live-action. Alois Nebel works as a dis- western border of Czechoslovakia, radio amateur Adam with his provocative friend Dejvid do not want to stay Czech history: the tragedy of the village of Lidice, and and Dara Rolins. They like their life style and their songs. patcher at a small railway station. He’s a loner, who pre- In a botanical garden – a paradise island in an otherwise starts working at a sport airport, where he witnesses the behind. The Clash London Calling LP shows them the everything that preceded and followed it. The film is They decide to send them a DVD with the video-message fers old timetables to people, and he finds peace in the bustling city – two children find friendship and, when occupation in August 1968. The massive Communist pur- right way. They take some electric guitars, they change based on the stories of three people who share the same and the Roma remix of their hit The Bells of Happiness. loneliness of the station. He eventually ends up in a sa- things around them look grim, they even find a blue tiger. ges created a lack of experts and Adam eventually beco- their hair and they stop caring about anything around faults – infidelity and adultery. There is a simple solution The film traces the process of shooting this message on natorium, where he meets a mute stranger. No one knows mes an agent of the Secret Service. To save the womam them. NO FUTURE becomes their motto and the for- to their individual problems but the outcomes are perma- festivals k LEVELK / Gerda Binkyte, +45 4844 3072, the background of their life in the settlement. who he is or where he came from. The only clue may be he loves from repressions, he signs a “deal with the devil“. bidden music their life-style. nent and, eventually, tragic. [email protected], www.levelk.dk the old photograph that the stranger carries with him. One day he realizes that not only he is monitoring others, contact k Marek Šulík, +421 905 481 782, sales k LEVELK / Tine Klint, +45 4844 3072, contact k Evolution Films, +420 222 240 770, contact k Movie / Adam Dvořák, +420 608 979 718, but he himself is being watched. As he searches for an [email protected], www.zudro.sk festivals k The Match Factory / David Bauduin, [email protected], www.levelk.dk [email protected], www.evolutionfilms.cz [email protected] answer as to why this is happening to him, he has to look +49 221 539 709 45, [email protected], festivals and sales k Fabrication Films / Miriam Elchanan, 2012: a musical odyssey czech films 2011-2012 into his own past. Will he be able to survive with honor czech films 2011-2012 www.the-match-factory.de +1 323 874 2655, [email protected], k 30.06. k 22:00 k Espace Dorleans k 30.06. k 13:30 k Lazne III in the atmosphere of fear and doubts? k 02.07.2012 k 21:30 k Cinema B sales k The Match Factory / Brigitte Suarez, www.fabricationfilms.com k 02.07. k 13:00 k Husovka Theatre k 03.07. k 13:30 k Richmond k 06.07.2012 k 15:30 k Cas Cinema +49 221 539 709 25, [email protected], contact k Attack film, +421 2 5262 0941, k 04.07. k 16:00 k Husovka Theatre k 06.07. k 16:30 k Richmond czech films 2011-2012 www.the-match-factory.de [email protected], www.attackfilm.sk k 30.06. k 16:30 k Lazne III czech films 2011-2012 czech films 2011-2012 k 03.07. k 16:30 k Richmond k 29.06. k 18:30 k Small Hall k 02.07. k 12:30 k Cas Cinema k 06.07. k 10:30 k Lazne III k 05.07. k 15:30 k Small Hall k 05.07. k 18:30 k Cinema B k Documentary Films - Out of Competition k WORKS IN PROGRESS k Pitch & Feedback k Pitch & Feedback

k 02.07. k 13:30 k Congress Hall k 03.07. k 13:30 k Cinema A k 03.07. k 10:00 interactive gallery becher villa / krále jiřího 9, karlovy vary

PITCH & FEEDBACK is new presentation platform for Slovak and Czech film projects in their development stage, with ambition for an international co-production. Producers of selected project will receive valuable feedback and advice from important representatives and decision makers from the international film industry from the OBSCURANTIST AND HIS following areas: film funds, training programmes and co-productions forums, indepen- LINEAGE OR THE PYRAMIDS’ dent film production, film sales and distribution. For the initial year of the platform, TEARFUL VALLEYS (Tmár a LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME following experts are on board: jeho rod alebo Slzavé údolie (Miluj ma alebo odíď) Simon Perry (ACE/FR), Manfred Schmidt (MDM/DE), Guillaume de Seille (Arizona Previous title: All Saints (Dušičky) Pitch & Films/FR), Matteo Lovadina (Reel Suspects/FR), Martina Bleis (Berlinale Co-Production pyramíd) Market, Connecting Cottbus/DE). cz, sk – 2011 – 199 min. – documentary director k Mariana Čengel Solčanská PITCH & FEEDBACK is open for film professionals accredited with the festival. director k Karel Vachek cast k Oldřich Nový, Egon Bondy, production k JMB Film and TV Production (SK) Feedback! Erich von Däniken, George Eashkara, Yoshimasu Gozo website k www.jmbfilm.sk FRAGILE IDENTITY The organizers are: Slovak Film Institute, Czech Film Center, Karlovy Vary IFF, production k Produkce Radim Procházka (CZ), (Krehká identita) in co-operation with the Barrandov Studios. Česká televize (CZ), atelier.doc (SK) Tuesday, July 3, 2012 between 10a.m.–12p.m. Seven projects are selected for the 2012 edition: 3 from the Slovak Republic international premiere k 15th Ji.hlava IFDF director k Zuzana Piussi at the Becher Villa, Krále Jiřího 1196/9 and 4 from the . website k www.karelvachek.cz production k Produkce Radim Procházka (CZ), Ultrafilm (SK) Directors, screenwriters and producers from the Czech Republic and Slovakia will pitch The world of magic and God of mystics in (the classic website k www.radimprochazka.com EVA NOVÁ (Eva Nová) documentarist) Karel Vachek´s film novel about alien as potential co-production projects-in-development to experienced international film professionals. director k Marko Škop production k Artileria (SK) website k www.artileria.sk well as earthly civilisations, advertocracy and internet democracy. Access with film industry accreditation only! WILSON CITY (Wilsonovo) contact k Produkce Radim Procházka, +420 603 862 161, director k Jiří Strach production k PubRes (SK), FilmBrigade (CZ) website k www.pubres.sk [email protected], www.radimprochazka.com MY DOG KILLER (Môj pes, Killer) PIARGY (Piargy) documentary films - out of competition director k Lukáš Hanulák production k Arina Film (SK), Big Bang Creative (SK), k 02.07. k 19:30 k Lazne III director k Mira Fornay Luxor (CZ), Neseser (PL) website k www.arinafilm.sk k 05.07. k 19:00 k Richmond production k MIRAFOX (SK), Cineart TV (CZ) website k www.mirafox.sk k SLOVAK FILM NEWS k slovak film institute

FORUM 2012 AT ART FILM FEST IFF catalogues of slovak films

20th edition of the Art Film Fest IFF Trenčianske SLOVAK FILMS 11-12 Teplice /Trenčín hosted the second edition of FORUM General info on the Slovak Republic, full-length films and selected shorts 2012, which also included a Panel Presentation of Up- 2011 – 2012, upcoming Slovak films, awards to Slovak films, facts and figures, coming Slovak Feature Films. FORUM and the Panel financial support, address book. create a joint event aimed at supporting the promotion, release: January 2012 co-production, festival presentation and sales of Slovak films on the international market.

The event consisted of several master classes, individual UPCOMING SLOVAK FILMS 12-13 discussions and a panel presentation of selected projects. A catalogue of Slovak films with expected theatrical release in 2012 – 2013. This year, lectures and individual consulting of projects Listing of film projects - fiction, documentary, animation films and short films – were provided by: Tudor GIURGIU (Libra Film Produc- based on the stage of completion: in development – in production – tions/RO), Olivier VAN BOCKSTAEL (EastWest Distribu- in post-production. tion/AT), Stéphanie ROUX (Insomnia World Sales/FR), release: April 2012 Pamela PIANEZZA (Semaine de la Critique, Cannes IFF/ FR), Nikolaj NIKITIN (Berlinale/DE), Charlie COCKEY (Cinequest/US), Jean-Luc ORMIÈRES (UniversCiné/FR), h Both catalogues available at the Industry Office and Press Center of Karlovy Vary IFF. Marta LAMPEROVÁ (FAMU/CZ) a Ján ODZGAN (pre- online versions available at k www.aic.sk sentation techniques consultant/SK). The event was organized by: Character – Film Develop- SLOVAK FILM INSTITUTE (Slovenský filmový ústav) ment Association, Slovak Film Institute, with the finan- Slovak Film Archive – National Cinematographic Centre – seat of MEDIA Desk Slovak Republic – film archive – cial support of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund. library – publishing house – owner of producer’s rights to Slovak films made in 1895-1991 – film promotion – member of FIAF and EFP more information at k www.aic.sk representatives at 47th karlovy vary iff k Peter Dubecký, general manager / Alexandra Strelková, director of national cinematographic centre / Viera Ďuricová, manager of the foreign department / Miroslav Ulman, film.sk / Katarína Tomková, international relations

contact k Slovak Film Institute / Grösslingová 32 / 811 09 Bratislava / Slovenská republika t: +421 2 5710 1503 / f: +421 2 5296 3461 / e: [email protected] / w: www.sfu.sk / www.aic.sk