{"id":38341,"date":"2022-08-23T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/?post_type=novinka&p=38341"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:03:37","slug":"ordinary-failures-victim-venice-2022","status":"publish","type":"novinka","link":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/news\/ordinary-failures-victim-venice-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Slovak films to world premiere at the prestigious Venice festival 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The 79th Venice International Film Festival<\/a> (August 31 \u2013 September 10, 2022) will present the world premiere of Michal Bla\u0161ko\u2019s feature-length debut Victim<\/a> <\/em>in the Orizzonti<\/em> competition. In addition, the Slovak minority co-production Ordinary Failures<\/a><\/em>, directed by Cristina Grosan, will premiere within the Giornate degli Autori<\/a> sidebar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slovak director Michal Bla\u0161ko came to international attention with his short film Atlantis, 2003<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (2017), which world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the La Cin\u00e9fondation section (now La Cinef). Victim<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>is a suspenseful drama about a woman seeking justice in a racist society, torn between family and the search for the truth. The film is a majority Slovak production (nutprodukcia<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth storylines\u2014the mother-son storyline and the individual-society storyline\u2014are intimately intertwined, constantly overlapping and feeding into each other. By painting an emotional portrait of Irina, I wanted to expose the Central European society for which she temporarily becomes a mascot, until eventually winding up as its caricature. The leitmotif of the film is manipulation, permeating multiple layers of the narrative, although everything starts with something seemingly banal\u2014Igor\u2019s lie\u2014which unexpectedly gives society an excuse to unleash all the hatred dwelling at its core. The fact that Irina and Igor are Ukrainians, and thus belong to the minority that is most heavily represented in the Czech Republic while still not being fully accepted, also gives the main characters a unique perspective.\u201d<\/em> said the director in the international press kit. After the world premiere in Venice, Victim<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>will continue its festival journey at the Toronto International Film Festival<\/a> (Contemporary World Cinema section).<\/p>\n

Romanian-Hungarian filmmaker and visual artist Cristina Grosan has made several short, festival-successful films, while her feature-length debut Things Worth Weeping For<\/em><\/strong> (A legjobb dolgokon b\u0151gni kell) premiered last summer at the Sarejevo Film Festival<\/a>. She will now present her second feature-length film, Ordinary Failures<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, in the Official Selection of the independent Giornate degli Autori<\/a><\/strong> sidebar. Made in a Slovak minority co-production (Super Film<\/a>), the film follows a day in the life (interrupted by a mysterious natural phenomenon) of a misfit teenager, an anxious mother, and a recent widow. As their world descends into chaos, the three women struggle to find their place in life.<\/p>\n

Slovak films screenings:<\/p>\n

Victim<\/strong><\/em>, dir. <\/u>Michal Bla\u0161ko, SK-CZ-DE, 2022<\/u>
\nSeptember 5 | 19:30 | Sala Volpi *pass holders
\nSeptember 5 | 22:00 | Sala Casin\u00f2 *pass holders
\nSeptember 6 | 13:15 | Sala Darsena *pass holders
\nSeptember 6 | 14:00 | Sala Darsena *public
\nSeptember 7 | 13:15 | PalaBiennale * pass holders\/public<\/p>\n

Ordinary Failures<\/em><\/strong>, dir. <\/u>Cristina Grosan, CZ-HU-IT-SK, 2022
\n<\/u>September 3 | 22:00 | Sala Corinto *press\/industry
\nSeptember 5 | 11:15 | Sala Perla *pass holders\/public
\nSeptember 8 | 22:00 | Sala Corinto *pass holders\/public<\/p>\n

More information at: https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/cinema\/2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 79th Venice International Film Festival (August 31 \u2013 September 10, 2022) will present the world premiere of Michal Bla\u0161ko\u2019s feature-length debut Victim in the Orizzonti competition. In addition, the Slovak minority co-production Ordinary Failures, directed by Cristina Grosan, will premiere within the Giornate degli Autori sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11166,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"kategorie_noviniek":[1965,2038,2036,2037,2145,2152],"festival":[],"rok":[],"class_list":["post-38341","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\/38341","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\/11166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_noviniek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_noviniek?post=38341"},{"taxonomy":"festival","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festival?post=38341"},{"taxonomy":"rok","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rok?post=38341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}