{"id":38186,"date":"2019-05-24T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/?post_type=novinka&#038;p=38186"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:41:11","slug":"zlin-film-festival-2019","status":"publish","type":"novinka","link":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/news\/zlin-film-festival-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Zl\u00edn Film Festival 2019 discovers &amp; explores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/AIC-2018\/zlin.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" class=\"table\" \/><strong>The 59th edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zlinfest.cz\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zl\u00edn Film Festival<\/a> for children and youth (May 24 \u2013 June 1, 2019), with its main topic Discover &amp; Explore, will screen Slovak features and shorts in multiple program sections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two Slovak minority co-productions <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/films\/the-magic-quill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Magic Quill<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (dir. Marek Najbrt) and <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/films\/winter-flies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winter Flies<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (dir. Olmo Omerzu) will be presented within the Czech Films and TV Production. The non-competitive section will also show crime TV series closely connected with Zl\u00edn ZOO <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/program.zlinfest.cz\/en\/detail\/?id=13434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Little Detectives<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (dir. Juraj Nvota, Tereza Nvotov\u00e1) and TV fairytale <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/program.zlinfest.cz\/en\/detail\/?id=13362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas Wish<\/a><\/em><\/strong> directed by Peter Bebjak.<\/p>\n<p>Slovakia will be represented within various International Competition categories. Seven-country co-production <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/films\/my-grandpa-is-an-alien\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Grandpa Is an Alien<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (dir. Dra\u017een \u017darkovi\u0107, Marina Andree \u0160kop) will compete in Features Films for Children category. Sci-fi story depicts nine-year-old Una trying to save her grandpa, who was abducted by aliens. <a href=\"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/films\/the-scent-of-oranges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Scent of Oranges<\/em> <\/strong><\/a>(dir. Ivan Pokorn\u00fd), contestant of Features Films for the Youth category, depicts first love between Darek and German girl Hana. <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/films\/the-kite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Kite<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (dir. Martin Smatana), recent recipient of the Award for the best children\u2019s animated film at the 26th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, will compete in the Short Animated Films for Children category.<\/p>\n<p>Four Slovak student films will vie for Zl\u00edn Dog Award in the International Competition of Student Films: animation <strong><em>Journey <\/em><\/strong>by Marek Jasa\u0148, fiction <strong><em>Cherries <\/em><\/strong>by Katar\u00edna Gramatov\u00e1, documentaries <strong><em>(A)way<\/em><\/strong> by So\u0148a N\u00f4tov\u00e1 and <strong><em>(In)visible Worlds<\/em><\/strong> by Zuzana Hud\u00e1\u010dekov\u00e1.<\/p>\n<p>The topic of the festival\u2019s 59th edition will be also reflected in Discover &amp; Explore: Countries section which includes short film <strong><em>Oymyakon: The Story of the Coldest Inhabited Place<\/em><\/strong> by young Slovak director Dominik Bari, bringing an interesting probe into the lives of people in one of the coldest inhabited places on Earth \u2013 in the Russian village of Oymyakon.<\/p>\n<p>Youngest audience will be pleased by the first Slovak 3D animated TV series <a href=\"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/films\/the-websters-compilation-of-ep-1-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>The Websters<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (dir. Katar\u00edna Kerekesov\u00e1).<\/p>\n<p>More information at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zlinfest.cz\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zlinfest.cz\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 59th edition of the Zl\u00edn Film Festival for children and youth (May 24 \u2013 June 1, 2019), with its main topic Discover &amp; Explore, will screen Slovak features and shorts in multiple program sections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42499,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"kategorie_noviniek":[1965,2038,2036,2037,2145,2152],"festival":[],"rok":[],"class_list":["post-38186","novinka","type-novinka","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_noviniek-aic","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\/38186","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\/42499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_noviniek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_noviniek?post=38186"},{"taxonomy":"festival","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festival?post=38186"},{"taxonomy":"rok","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rok?post=38186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}