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BELLS OF HAPPINESS (Zvonky šťastia) SK - 62 min. - 2012 - documentary |
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directors: | Jana Bučka, Marek Šulík | ||||
cast: | Mariena Mirgová, Roman Lacko | ||||
production: | OZ Žudro (SK), Punkchart films (SK), Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska (SK) | ||||
international premiere: | 47th Karlovy Vary IFF | ||||
Pregnant Mariena and her cousin Roman live with their families in a poor Roma settlement in Eastern Slovakia. They admire two Czecho-Slovak pop stars – Karel Gott and Dara Rolins. They like their life style and their songs.They decide to send them a DVD with the video-message and the Roma remix of their hit The Bells of Happiness. The film traces the process of shooting this message on the background of their life in the settlement. |
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contact: | Marek Šulík +421 905 481 782 zkufruvon@gmail.com www.zudro.sk |
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► 30.06. ► 22:00 ► Espace Dorleans |
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ALOIS NEBEL (Alois Nebel) CZ/DE/SK - 84 min. - 2011 - animation |
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director: | Tomáš Luňák | ||||
cast: | Miroslav Krobot, Marie Ludvíková, Karel Roden, Leoš Noha, Alois Švehlík | ||||
production: | Negativ (CZ), Pallas Film (DE), Tobogang (SK), Česká televize (CZ) | ||||
international premiere: | 68th Venice IFF | ||||
website: | www.aloisnebel.cz | ||||
The film is an adaptation of a graphic novel and combines animation and live-action. Alois Nebel works as a dispatcher at a small railway station. He’s a loner, who prefers old timetables to people, and he finds peace in the loneliness of the station. He eventually ends up in a sanatorium, where he meets a mute stranger. No one knows who he is or where he came from. The only clue may be the old photograph that the stranger carries with him. |
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festivals: | The Match Factory / David Bauduin +49 221 539 709 45 festivals@matchfactory.de www.the-match-factory.de |
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sales: | The Match Factory / Brigitte Suarez +49 221 539 709 45 brigitte.suarez@matchfactory.de www.the-match-factory.de |
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► 29.06. ► 18:30 ► Small Hall |
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THE BLUE TIGER (Modrý tiger) CZ/DE/SK - 90 min. - 2012 - fiction |
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directors: | Petr Oukropec, Bohdan Sláma | ||||
cast: | Jan Hartl, Barbora Hrzánová, Linda Votrubová, Jakub Wunsch, Daniel Drewes | ||||
production: | Negativ (CZ), Blinker Filmproduktion (DE), Meike Martens (DE), ARINA (SK), Rozhlas a televíza Slovenska (SK), Česká televize (CZ) | ||||
international premiere: | TIFF Kids 2012 | ||||
website: | www.modrytygr.cz | ||||
In a botanical garden – a paradise island in an otherwise bustling city – two children find friendship and, when things around them look grim, they even find a blue tiger. |
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festivals: | LEVELK / Gerda Binkyte +45 4844 3072 gerda@levelk.dk www.levelk.dk |
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sales: | LEVELK / Tine Klint +45 4844 3072 tine@levelk.dk www.levelk.dk |
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► 30.06. ► 13:30 ► Lazne III |
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CONFIDANT (eŠTeBák) SK/CZ/PL - 108 min. - 2011 - fiction |
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director: | Juraj Nvota | ||||
cast: | Jiří Mádl, Michaela Majerníková, Ondřej Vetchý, Jan Budař, Ady Hajdu | ||||
production: | Attack film (SK), Česká televize (CZ), Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska (SK), MaxiFilm&TV (CZ), Apple Film Production (PL) | ||||
website: | www.estebak.sk | ||||
After finishing the compulsory military service at the western border of Czechoslovakia, radio amateur Adam starts working at a sport airport, where he witnesses the occupation in August 1968. The massive Communist purges created a lack of experts and Adam eventually becomes an agent of the Secret Service. To save the womam he loves from repressions, he signs a “deal with the devil“. One day he realizes that not only he is monitoring others, but he himself is being watched. As he searches for an answer as to why this is happening to him, he has to look into his own past. Will he be able to survive with honor in the atmosphere of fear and doubts? |
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contact: | Attack film +421 2 5262 0941 attack@nextra.sk www.attackfilm.sk |
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► 02.07. ► 12:30 ► Cas Cinema |
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DONT STOP (DONT STOP) CZ/SK - 98 min. - 2012 - fiction |
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director: | Richard Řeřicha | ||||
cast: | Patrik Děrgel, Lukáš Reichl, Jiří Kocman, Kristína Svarinská | ||||
production: | Evolution Films (CZ), FilmFrame (SK), HBO (CZ) | ||||
website: | www.dontstop.cz | ||||
It’s 1983 and punk has finally clawed its way to Normalization Czechoslovakia. Eighteen-year-old Miki together with his provocative friend Dejvid do not want to stay behind. The Clash London Calling LP shows them the right way. They take some electric guitars, they change their hair and they stop caring about anything around them. NO FUTURE becomes their motto and the forbidden music their life-style. |
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contact: | Evolution Films +420 222 240 770 ozima@evolutionfilms.cz www.evolutionfilms.cz |
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► 02.07. ► 21:30 ► Cinema B |
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LIDICE (Lidice) CZ/SK - 126 min. - 2011 - fiction |
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director: | Petr Nikolaev | ||||
cast: | Karel Roden, Zuzana Bydžovská, Zuzana Fialová, Ondřej Novák, Roman Luknár | ||||
production: | Movie (CZ), Magic Box (CZ), Magic Box Slovakia (SK), Česká televize (CZ), Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska (SK) | ||||
website: | www.filmlidice.cz | ||||
FThe film depicts the most horrendous event in modern Czech history: the tragedy of the village of Lidice, and everything that preceded and followed it. The film is based on the stories of three people who share the same faults – infidelity and adultery. There is a simple solution to their individual problems but the outcomes are permanent and, eventually, tragic. |
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contact: | Movie / Adam Dvořák +420 608 979 718 adadvo@gmail.com |
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festivals and sales: | Fabrication Films / Miriam Elchanan +1 323 874 2655 miriam@fabricationfilms.com www.fabricationfilms.com |
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► 30.06. ► 16:30 ► Lazne III |
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OBSCURANTIST AND HIS LINEAGE OR THE PYRAMIDS' TEARFUL VALLEYS (Tmár a jeho rod alebo Slzavé údolie pyramíd) CZ/SK - 199 min. - 2011 - documentary |
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director: | Karel Vachek | ||||
cast: | Oldřich Nový, Egon Bondy, Erich von Däniken, George Eashkara, Yoshimasu Gozo | ||||
production: | Produkce Radim Procházka (CZ), Česká televize (CZ), atelier.doc (SK) | ||||
international premiere: | 15th IFDF Ji.hlava | ||||
website: | www.karelvachek.cz | ||||
The world of magic and God of mystics in (the classic documentarist) Karel Vachek´s film novel about alien as well as earthly civilisations, advertocracy and internet democracy. |
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contact: | Produkce Radim Procházka +420 603 862 161 radim@radimprochazka.com www.radimprochazka.com |
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► 02.07. ► 19:30 ► Lazne III |
published: 27.06.2012
updated: 28.06.2012