54. edition of Karlovy Vary IFF | 28. 6. - 6. 7. 2019 |  Czech Republic

	Let There Be Light Official Selection – Competition SK, CZ | 2019 | 93 min. | fiction Director: Marko Škop
	Interview with Marko Škop Scriptwriter, director and producer Marko Škop gained international renomé as a documentary filmmaker with films such as Other Worlds (2006) and Osadné (2009). His 2015 fiction feature debut Eva Nová tells the story of a former film star who has just been released from rehab and tries to find her place within her family that she hurt. Škop's latest fiction feature Let There Be Light examines the possible consequences of fathers' decision to be absent from their families in order to earn more money abroad.
	Silent Days East of the West – Competition SK, CZ | 2019 | 81 min. | hybrid Director: Pavol Pekarčík
	Interview with Pavol Pekarčík Silent Days marks Pavol Pekarčík’s first sole feature film directing credit even though he is an experienced filmmaker who made multiple short films, was involved in Martin Šulík’s Gypsy or Iveta Grófová’s Made in Ash and together with Ivan Ostrochovský and Peter Kerekes co-directed feature documentary Velvet Terrorists, which premiered at Karlovy Vary IFF in 2013 and was awarded Tagesspiegel Readers’ Jury Award at Berlinale in 2014.
	Kid Future Frames SK | 2019 | 27 min. | fiction Director: Gregor Valentovič
	Interview with Gregor Valentovič Gregor Valentovič is currently in his final year of Film Directing studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. His previous short film, The Test (2016) premiered at Premiers Plans Film Festival in Angers, France and was awarded at several short film festivals. Apart from short films, he directed several music videos and commercials.
	The Barnabáš Kos Case Out of the Past CS | 1964 | 92 min. | fiction Director: Peter Solan
	Peter Solan – The Barnabáš Kos Case According to his own words, Peter Solan became a film director by sheer coincidence: due to interrupted medicine studies and a post-war cinema in Banská Bystrica. Later he recalled how he was fascinated by American films by such directors as Frank Capra, John Ford, or William Wyler. In 1949, he began his studies in film direction at FAMU in Prague where Soviet films were very much debated (mainly those by Vsevolod Pudovkin, Grigori Aleksandrov).
	It's Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill Liberated CS | 1992 | 108 min. | fiction Director: Juraj Jakubisko
	Wealth, health and tolerance [Juraj Jakubisko] made a film about present times in the course of a couple of months, directly in the boiling point of post-revolution re-arrangements of Czecho-Slovakia. He made a film about times of anarchy which we go through on our journey from totalitarianism to democracy, a film about ”wealth which we used to reject and now we worship, about two nations in one state”, as director has said. Money and national awareness have become central themes in the lives of contemporary men.
	Old-Timers Official Selection – Out of Competition CZ, SK | 2019 | 85 min. | fiction Directors: Martin Dušek, Ondřej Provazník
	Jiří Suchý – Tackling Life With Ease Special Screenings CZ, SK | 2019 | 104 min. | documentary Director: Olga Sommerová
	Czech Films 2018 – 2019 Jan Palach (d. Robert Sedláček), On the Roof (d. Jiří Mádl), The Kite (d. Martin Smatana), and Golden Sting (r. Radim Špaček) are presented in Czech Films 2018 – 2019 section.
	Mimi & Lisa: Christmas Lights Mystery People Next Door SK, CZ | 2018 | 67 min. | animated Directors: Katarína Kerekesová, Ivana Šebestová

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SLOVAK FILM INSTITUTE AT 54th KARLOVY VARY IFF:

Peter Dubecký | General Manager | sfu@sfu.sk |
Rastislav Steranka | Director of National Cinematographic Centre | rastislav.steranka@sfu.sk |
Kristína Aschenbrennerová | Foreign Department | kristina.aschenbrennerova@sfu.sk | 
Tomáš Hudák | Foreign Department | tomas.hudak@sfu.sk |
Miroslav Ulman | Film.sk magazine | miroslav.ulman@sfu.sk | 

published: 24.06.2019
updated: 24.06.2019