Director: Agnieszka Holland
CZ, IE, PL, SK | 2020 | 118 min. | fiction
The drama of an extraordinary man, reflecting the age-old struggle of the two principles that have controlled humanity from the very beginning. Good and evil. Love and hate, cruelty and mercy, faith and betrayal. All that in one person against a background of historical twists. Mikolášek’s extraordinary abilities are redeemed in the battle with his own demons who force him into cynical violence.
Screenings:
February 22 | 16:00 | CinemaxX 4 (Buyers Only)
February 24 | 9:00 | CinemaxX 4 (Buyers Only)
Director: Mira Fornay
CZ, SK | 2019 | 116 min. | fiction
Jaroslav is a handsome and seemingly goodnatured son, father and decent husband. But, in fact, he is pathologically jealous of his wife Blanka and very much afraid that she will leave him one day with their three children. Jaroslav and his family do not hesitate to employ violence, deceit and terror against others, which ultimately leads to a family tragedy.
Screening:
February 22 | 12:50 | CinemaxX 11
Director: Marko Škop
SK, CZ | 2019 | 93 min. | fiction
Milan (40), a guest-worker in Germany, discovers that, back home in Slovakia, his teenage son has become involved with home-grown militias and is accused of bullying and killing a classmate. The father starts to seek out the truth about what happened, the truth about himself…
Screening:
February 21 | 16:15 | Cinemaxx 2
Director: Mariana Čengel Solčanská, Rudolf Biermann
SK, CZ | 2020 | 98 min. | fiction
A country somewhere at the foot of mountains is controlled by high-ranking criminals, people connected to politics, mafia, the police, courts. Can the truth survive?
Screening:
February 25 | 12:40 | CinemaxX 16
Director: Ivan Ostrochovský
SK, RO, CZ, IE | 2020 | 80 min. | fiction
The year is 1980. Michal and Juraj are students at a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia. Fearing the dissolution of their school, the tutors are moulding the students into a shape satisfactory to the ruling Communist Party. Each of the young seminarians must decide if he will give into the temptation and choose the easier way of collaborating with the regime, or if he will subject himself to draconian surveillance by the secret police..
Screenings:
February 20 | 17:00 | CinemaxX 10
February 23 | 13:35 | CinemaxX 10
