{"id":37899,"date":"2015-11-16T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/?post_type=novinka&p=37899"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:02:07","slug":"slovak-films-far-from-bratislava","status":"publish","type":"novinka","link":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/news\/slovak-films-far-from-bratislava\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovak Films Far from Bratislava"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten Slovak films will travel far from Bratislava at the end of November. A showcase New Slovak Cinema \u2013 Far from Bratislava (orig. Ny Slovakisk film \u2013 langt fra Bratislava) will be held in the DFI \/ Cinemateket, the Cinematheque of the Danish Film Institute\u00a0in Copenhagen<\/a>\u00a0on November 21 \u2013 29, 2015.
\n<\/strong>
\nThe showcase aims to\u00a0present to the Danish audiences a closer look at the Slovak reality of today; Far from Bratislava not only referring to the distance the films travelled from the Slovak to the Danish capital, but also to the stories taking place all over the country.<\/p>\n

The opening film is the succesful roadmovie by Ivan Ostrochovsk\u00fd Koza<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Further representatives of contemporary Slovak cinema are: My Dog Killer<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (dir. Mira Fornay) \u2013 taking place in a dead-end village and focuses on themes of rasism, xenofobia and intolerance; Velvet Terrorists<\/em><\/strong> (dir. Pavol Pekar\u010d\u00edk, Ivan Ostrochovsk\u00fd, Peter Kerekes) \u2013 about three men longing to become heroes and during 1980s, they decided to fight the communist regime in Czechoslovakia; Miracle<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (dir. Juraj Lehotsk\u00fd) \u2013 about a teenage-girl sent to a re-education centre yearning for love, but is not allowed to love; Made in Ash<\/em><\/strong> (dir. Iveta Gr\u00f3fov\u00e1) \u2013 following a Romany girl, who leaves behind her family in Eastern Slovakia to become a textile factory worker in the border town of Ash; wave vs. shore<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (dir. Martin \u0160trba) – a documentary about the extraordinary generation of Slovak photographers that got together at FAMU in Prague at the beginning of the 1980s; The Candidate<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (dir. Jon\u00e1\u0161 Kar\u00e1sek) – Slovak box-office hit, thriller-comedy observing the manipulation and power of media that can influence a whole world.<\/p>\n

The handpicked selection also features classic film\u00a0titles: Peter Solan\u00b4s wonderful Czechoslovak New Wave film Before Tonight Is Over<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (1965) taking place in a luxury bar at High Tatras, Solan\u00b4s film will be accompanied by a short social\u2013critical documentary comedy by Du\u0161an Han\u00e1k Old Shatterhand Came to See Us<\/em><\/strong> (1966).\u00a0Another Du\u0161an Han\u00e1k\u00b4s film Pictures of the Old World<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (1972) will\u00a0present beautiful and suggestive portraits of old people from the Slovak regions of Liptov and Orava who are able to enjoy their individual freedom even in the times of chaos and insecurity in the society and civilization.<\/p>\n

A showcase New Slovak Cinema \u2013 Far From Bratislava in Copenhagen is organised by the Slovak Film Institute and production company Arina and FRAME FILM, in collaboration with the Danish Film Institute<\/a> and The Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Copenhagen<\/a>. The event is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic<\/a> and Slovak Audiovisual Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten Slovak films will travel far from Bratislava at the end of November. A showcase New Slovak Cinema – Far from Bratislava will be held in the Cinematheque of Danish Film Institute in Copenhagen on November 21 \u2013 29 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43740,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"kategorie_noviniek":[2038,2036,2037,2145,2152],"festival":[],"rok":[],"class_list":["post-37899","novinka","type-novinka","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_noviniek-archive","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\/37899","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=37899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_noviniek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_noviniek?post=37899"},{"taxonomy":"festival","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festival?post=37899"},{"taxonomy":"rok","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rok?post=37899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}