The Film Festival Cottbus has begun (November 5 – 10). This year, it also features a rich representation of Slovak films, also thanks to a section focusing on works by young Czech female directors.
In the Feature Films Competition we will find the co-production Our Lovely Pig Slaughter (d. Adam Martinec) and in the Short Film Competition the dystopian drama Shadding the Mist (d. Kateřina Hroníková) appears in the lineup. In the Youth Film U18 Competition section the successful Slovak-Hungarian film Explanation for Everything (d. Gábor Reisz) will compete.
The non-competitive section Hits will screen the audience-favorite film Waves (d. Jiří Mádl), the Ecoeast section the drama Dry Season (d. Bohdan Sláma) and the Midnight Madness section the Slovak mystery thriller Whirlwind (d. Peter Bebjak).
The Female Gaze: New Czech Films by Female Directors is the title of the section that includes 8 co-productions. Among the fiction films are: the new release Year of the Widow (d. Veronika Lišková), Her Body (d. Natalie Císařovská), Tiny Lights (d. Beata Parkanová), Ordinary Failures (d. Cristina Groșan), and the successful short Electra by Daria Kascheeva. The selection is complemented by two documentaries: I’m not Everything I Want to Be (d. Klára Tasovská) and The Limits of Europe (d. Apolena Rychlíková). It concludes with the feature animation My Sunny Maad (d. Michaela Pavlátová) from 2021.
The industry program Connecting Cottbus (November 6 – 8) selected for the cocoWIP project Three Weeks Under the Sea (directed by Martin Kuba), a Slovak co-production (PubRes).
Web:
https://www.filmfestivalcottbus.de/en/
https://connecting-cottbus.de/
