Director: Martin Šulík
SK, CZ, AT | 2018 | 113 min. | fiction
A book written by a former SS officer, detailing his time and deeds in Slovakia, falls into the hands of the interpreter, Ali Ungár. He realises that the SS officer is responsible for the death of his parents. He travels to Vienna but, in place of the killer, he finds only his son, Georg, a former teacher who, throughout his life, has distanced himself from his father’s past. However, the interpreter’s visit awakens his interest and he decides to find out who his father really was.
Screenings:
February 15 | 14:20 | MGB Cinema (Buyers only)
February 16 | 10:45 | CinemaxX 4 (Buyers only)
February 18 | 17:00 | CinemaxX 1 (Buyers only)
Director: Juraj Lehotský
SK, CZ | 2017 | 82 min. | fiction
Nina is 12. Her parents are getting a divorce and her world is falling apart before her eyes. Her mum and dad say they are only doing what is best for her but, in fact, they act as though they only cared about themselves. Nina doesn’t understand them. She feels abandoned and deceived – it’s as though there is nothing left in the world for her to believe in. Her only security in life is competitive swimming. At the pool she finds peace and support and everything she lacks at home. When it looks like she won’t be able to attend a swimming competition, she makes a radical move.
February 19 | 12:40 | CinemaxX 16
Director: Jan Svěrák
CZ, DK, SK | 2017 | 110 min. | fiction
8-year-old Eda is a long-desired and anxiously protected child of parents who had already previously lost a baby. Eda is therefore a replacement child; he even bears the same name. After his father rejects affiliation with the Nazi invaders of Czechoslovakia in 1939, the family has to flee Prague into concealment at the home of relatives in the countryside. The war provides the mysterious adventures to Eda whose child’s eyes cannot perceive the danger of those difficult times. To him life now feels strange but beautiful.
February 18 | 19:15 | Cinestar 5
Director: Jan Speckenbach
DE, SK | 2017 | 106 min. | fiction
A woman leaves her husband and two children without a word. She is impelled by an inexplicable force. She wants to be free. Nora leaves for Vienna where she meets a younger man but she has the impression that the environment, which is culturally close to her own country, does not provide her with sufficient freedom, hence she leaves for Bratislava. She alters her appearance, she works as a chambermaid, she meets the young stripper Etela and her husband Tamás, and she embarks on a new life.
February 18 | 12:50 | CinemaxX 19
