The theme of the 12th year of the Czech & Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFFA) is Labyrinth. The festival will take place in the cities of Melbourne and Adelaide and will bring to the big screens 13 Slovak films.
Audiences will have the opportunity to see the most films in Melbourne (October 10 – 20). The new releases that premiered in Karlovy Vary Film Festival this year and are currently experiencing success in Slovak and Czech cinemas are among them: historical drama The Hungarian Dressmaker (d. Iveta Grófová), the co-production Our Lovely Pig Slaughter (d. Martin Adamec) and the documentary film I´m Not Everything I Want to Be (d. Klára Tasovská, Berlinale 2024).
Less recent Slovak titles She – Hero (d. Mira Fornay, Berlinale 2023) and Nightsiren (d. Tereza Nvotová, Locarno 2022) will also be screened, as well as co-productions: The Last Aristocrat 2 (d. Jiří Vejdělek), Calm in the Canopy (d. Michal Hogenauer) and Waltzing Matilda (d. Petr Slavík).
Besides the film She – Hero, young audiences can also look forward to the full-length animation Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light (d. Filip Pošivač).
From the short films, documentaries A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places (which was presented by director Katarína Gramatová in Karlovy Vary as part of the Future Frames section) and Cold and Dark (d. Peter Hošták) will be screened, followed by the short fiction Far Between Us (d. Vojtech Javurek) and animation The Wasteland (d. Timotej Lukovič).
The festival also prepared a focus on the director Jiří Menzel at The Melbourne Cinémathèque, which will offer a selection of favourite classics, including the Slovak co-production I Served the King of England.
In Adelaide (November 1 – 9), the co-production The Last Aristocrat 2 (d. Jiří Vejdělek) and the full-length children’s animated film Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light (d. Filip Pošivač) will be screened.
