Film Festival Cottbus (November 5 – 10, 2019) with special focus on East and Central European cinema will present up to 10 Slovak films in 9 program sections at its 29th edition.
The Feature Film Competition will present a drama By a Sharp Knife (d. Teodor Kuhn) and the Short Film Competition The March directed by Michal Blaško, who presented his upcoming feature debut Victim at the festival last year.
The U18 Youth Film Competition will screen Let There Be Light (d. Marko Škop) and among the Hits The Rift (d. Peter Bebjak).
The section Everything Stays Different? which reflects the situation 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall is complemented by the documentary The Lust for Power (d. Tereza Nvotová).
The Specials section is dedicated to another anniversary – 100 years of Bauhaus, and completes with two shorts – Off Season (d. Andrea Kalinová) and Gardeners (d. Mira Fornay).
The comedy Old-Timers (d. Martin Dušek, Ondřej Provazník) will be introduced in the Spectrum section.
Region Lower Silesia section, dedicated to Poland, will screen co-production drama Pardon (d. Jan Jakub Kolski).
The youngest audience can look forward to the Children’s Film section and screening of My Grandpa Is an Alien (d. Marina Andree Škop, Dražen Žarković).
Web:
http://www.filmfestivalcottbus.de/en/
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