Slovak Eurovision at Lago Film Fest - Slovenský filmový ústav

Lago Film Fest – International Festival of Short Films, Documentaries and Screenplays (July 18 – 26, 2014) in the Italian Revine Lago celebrates its 10th anniversary edition also with a selection of Slovak shorts presented in a special focus section within the Eurovision focus. In addition, The Pandas (Pandy) by Matúš Vizár represent Slovakia in the festival´s International Competition.

Within Eurovision, 8 European countries were asked to choose from among recent short films the one´s with the greatest success and most interesting artistic viewpoint and approach. The selections are co-curated by the national film institutes and centres.

The Slovak Eurovision Program presents five recent award-winning Slovak short films. From an intimate survey of an “upside-down” relationship between a mother and a son in the documentary Arsy-Versy, through a specitic interpretation of a culture in the documentary No Closet Issue, hiding inside an animated world in Viliam, exploration of the true nature of humans in the combined live-action animation The Last Bus, to the cyclically leveled up story of X=X+1. All films in this retrospective collection present the new generation in Slovak short film production.

Katarína Hlinčíková will attend the festival to introduce her short No Closet Issue and to talk about short films in Slovakia in general.

Slovak participation at the festival is organized in collaboration with the Slovak Embassy and the Slovak Cultural Institute in Rome.

Slovak Eurovision

July 19, 2014 | 22:00 | Cortille Carlettin, Revine Lago

Arsy-Versy (2009), dir. Miro Remo – documentary
The Last Bus (2011), dir. Martin Snopek, Ivana Laučíková – animation
Viliam (2009), dir. Veronika Obertová – animation
No Closet Issue (2012), dir. Katarína Hlinčíková – documentary
X=X+1 (2009), dir. Juraj Krasnohorský – fiction

International Competition

July 20, 2014 | 22:30 | Lido

July 21, 2014 | 17:30 | Sallo della Communitá