{"id":37826,"date":"2015-01-26T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/?post_type=novinka&#038;p=37826"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:59:56","slug":"two-slovak-films-at-the-65th-berlinale","status":"publish","type":"novinka","link":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/news\/two-slovak-films-at-the-65th-berlinale\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Slovak films at the 65th Berlinale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/AIC_foto\/filmy\/Koza-Foto-01-Autor-Martin-Kollar_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" class=\"table\" \/><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">After the last year&#8217;s success at Berlin IFF, when the <span style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.velvetterrorists.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Velvet Terrorists<\/a><\/span> documentary won the Tagesspiegel Readers&#8217; Award, Slovak films are returning to the festival programme. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berlinale.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">65th Berlinale (February 5 \u2013 15, 2015) <\/a>introduces the feature debut by Ivan Ostrochovsk\u00fd <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Koza <\/span>and the short animation by Martin Smatana <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Rosso Papavero<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Forum section, focusing primarily on European and world premieres of independent auteur films, selected the Slovak-Czech produced <a href=\"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/films\/koza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Koza<\/span><\/strong><\/a> (2015) by Ivan Ostrochovsk\u00fd for the programme of its 45th edition in a world premiere. The film tells the story of a former Olympic boxer Peter Bal\u00e1\u017e, nick-named Koza, who after years of missing out on trainings, returns to the ring. To earn money and to make up his partner&#8217;s mind about an abortion, he sets on a tour with his manager. The film was nominated for the Best First Feature Film Award by Festival Director Dieter Kosslick, a Jury consisting of Fernando Eimbcke (Mexico, director), Joshua Oppenheimer (USA, director) and Olga Kurylenko (actress, Ukraine &#8211; France) will decide about the Award.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the director together with his co-directors Peter Kerekes and Pavol Pekar\u010d\u00edk, received the Tagesspiegel Reader&#8217;s Award for their documentary <strong><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Velvet Terrorists<\/span><\/strong>.<a href=\"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/films\/koza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Koza <\/span><\/strong><\/a>also caught attention of the international professional public at the 49. Karlovy Vary IFF, where it received the Works in Progress Awards for the most promising project.<\/p>\n<p>The Generation section, which presents films for children and youth in its two competition programmes Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus, will present the short animation film by Martin Smatana entitled <strong><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Rosso Papavero <\/span><\/strong>(2014) in Generation Kplus.<\/p>\n<p>Smatana&#8217;s short puppet animation tells the story of a small boy with a head filled with fantasies, who witnesses a magical dream circus performance. The film received the Literary Fund Award at the Biennial of Animation Bratislava in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to both films!<\/p>\n<p>More information at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berlinale.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.berlinale.de<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the last year&#8217;s success at Berlin IFF, when the Velvet Terrorists documentary won the Tagesspiegel Readers&#8217; Award, Slovak films are returning to the festival programme. The 65th Berlinale (February 5 \u2013 15, 2015) introduces the feature debut by Ivan Ostrochovsk\u00fd Koza and the short animation by Martin Smatana Rosso Papavero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43740,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"inline_featured_image":false},"kategorie_noviniek":[1965,2040,2036,2037,2145,2152],"festival":[],"rok":[],"class_list":["post-37826","novinka","type-novinka","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_noviniek-aic","kategorie_noviniek-berlinale-news","kategorie_noviniek-english","kategorie_noviniek-news","kategorie_noviniek-prezentacia-en","kategorie_noviniek-slovak-cinema-abroad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/novinka\/37826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/novinka"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/novinka"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_noviniek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_noviniek?post=37826"},{"taxonomy":"festival","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festival?post=37826"},{"taxonomy":"rok","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rok?post=37826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}