The biennal film event Slovak Film Days in Moscow starts on Monday, 7 December 2020. The showcase based on the contract on cultural cooperation between the Slovak and the Russian Ministry of Culture will run until Sunday, 13 December and will present seven Slovak films, all screened at the cinema “5 Zvezd”.
Slovak Film Days in Moscow 2020 opens with Let There Be Light (2019) by Marko Škop. On the story of a family whose father works as a construction worker in Germany and whose oldest son joins the local “youth guard”, the film discuss the underlying social issues and slow shift to extremism.
Amnesty (2019), the sophomore film by Jonáš Karásek, returms to the early 1990s and the fall of the socialist regime and the early years of the democratic Czecho-Slovakia. The personal histories of three families interweave with the social turmoils around the presidential amnesty. Also inspired by actual events, Theodor`s Kuhn By A Sharp Knife (2019) follows the father of a son murdered by neonazi youngsters and his fight for justice.
Jan Palach (2018) by Robert Sedláček and Toman (2018) by Ondřej Trojan offer a look at the two historic figures. Jan Palach, in manifest against the communist government and its actions against the people of Czechoslovakia, opted self-immolation to life without basic freedoms. Zdeněk Toman, on the other hand, was a man of more dubious nature. Nonetheless, his story of the head of the foreign intelligence too displays the effects of the political reality on a people.
The Rift (2019) by Peter Bebjak brings a zest of mysticism into the line up. Based on the book of the same title by Jozef Karika, it opens on the myths tied to Tribec Mountain about people gone missing. A group of youngsters decides on cracking the secret behing the disappearances in the forests that run deep into the past.
The line up of the new slovak films is accompanied by a digitally restored classic The Barnabáš Kos Case (1965) by Peter Solan. The timeless story of a seemingly harmless, almost invisible triangle player cum orchester director points to the irony of powerless becoming powerfull. The film was restored in the Digitization Centre of the Slovak Film Institute and premiered at the Festival Lumiere in Lyon 2018.
The Slovak FIlm Days in Moscow is organized by the Slovak Film Institute on behalf of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, and NOY Film Company on behalf of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, in cooperation with the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in the Russian Federation and the Slovak Institute in Moscow.
