The Irish city of Cork will host the 1st edition of the Visegrad Film Festival, a festival focusing on the film production in the V4 countries, June 24 – 28, 2015. The programme will present a wide range of Slovak films, including titles of the Slovak classics.
The opening film of the festival is the first Slovak feature – Jánošík (1921), a silent film by Jaroslav Siakeľ, which will be accompanied by live music provided by the Non Toxic Orchestra. Classics such as Pictures of the Old World (1972) by Dušan Hanák, Birdies, Orphans and Fools (1969) by Juraj Jakubisko and Forty-Four Mutineers (1957) by Paľo Bielik will be also screened.
The contemporary cinema will be represented by a selection of fiction and documentary films, as well as a collection of shorts:
The Candidate, dir. Jonáš Karásek
Socialistic Zombie Mord, dir. Rastislav Blažek, Zuzana Paulini, Peter Čermák
Felvidék. Caught in Between, dir. Vladislava Plančíková
Bells of Happiness, dir. Jana Bučka, Marek Šulík
Shorts:
tWINs, dir. Peter Budinský
The Pandas, dir. Matúš Vizár
Nina, dir. Veronika Obertová, Michaela Čopíková
Fongopolis, dir. Joanna Kożuch
Pictures, dir. Andrej Danoczi
Momo, dir. Teodor Kuhn
25km2, dir. Janka Mináriková
Arsy-versy, dir. Miro Remo
The Czech programme of the festival will feature the co-production omnibus documentary film Gottland, co-directed by Viera Čákanyová, an up-and-coming Slovak documentary filmmaker and editor.
The festival takes place in the Deja View Club, at the Camden Palace Hotel in Cork, and is organized by the Camden Quay Community Arts Centre Limited, already experienced with film evening screenings of Slovak, Czech, Hungarian and Polish cinematography. After the intensive festival week, the Centre will continue with the screenings during the whole year. One of the main organizers of the festival is the Slovak Embassy in Dublin. Partners and co-organizers of the Slovak participation at the festival are EEE, Slovak Film Institute, VŠMU, FILMTOPIA and Kinečko magazine. The event was financially supported by the International Visegrad Fund.
