Slovak Eurovision at Lago Film Fest
Lago Film Fest - International Festival of Short Films, Documentaries and Screenplays (July 18 - 26, 2014) in the Italian Revine Lago celebrates its 10th anniversary edition also with a selection of Slovak shorts presented in a special focus section within the Eurovision focus. In addition, Pandas (Pandy) by Matúš Vizár represent Slovakia in the festival´s International Competition. Within Eurovision, 8 European countries were asked to choose from among recent short films the one´s with the greatest success and most interesting artistic viewpoint and approach. The selections are co-curated by the national film institutes and centres.
The Slovak Eurovision Program presents five recent award-winning Slovak short films. From an intimate survey of an “upside-down” relationship between a mother and a son in the documentary Arsy-Versy, through a specitic interpretation of a culture in the documentary No Closet Issue, hiding inside an animated world in Viliam, exploration of the true nature of humans in the combined live-action animation The Last Bus, to the cyclically leveled up story of X=X+1. All films in this retrospective collection present the new generation in Slovak short film production.| Slovak Eurovision: |
July 19, 2014 / 22:00 / Cortille Carlettin, Revine Lago |
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Arsy-Versy (SK 2009), dir. Miro Remo - dokumentary |
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Katarína Hlinčíková will attend the festival to introduce her short No Closet Issue and to talk about short films in Slovakia in general.
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Pandas (Pandy, SK-CZ 2013), dir. Matúš Vizár - animation July 20, 2014 / 22:30 / Lido |
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For more information about the festival see: www.lagofest.org
Slovak participation at the festival is organized in collaboration with the Slovak Embassy and the Slovak Cultural Institute in Rome.
published: 17.07.2014
updated: 18.07.2014