This year, the Festival of freedom will go to regions as a one-day film festival with discussions and other interesting programme. It will be held in Prešov and Humenné. Admission free.
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Prešov / 18th November 2015
Kino Scala, Masarykova 7 FILM 9 a.m. - MOJE POVSTANIE (MY UPRISING) Short story/War film, Slovakia, 2014 Directed by: Jonáš Karásek, Marika Beňadik Majorová 4 film short stories from the project Moje povstanie (My Uprising), which was prepared for your people at the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising in order to present them this event through stories of individual heroism of ordinary people. 9:30 a.m.- FETIŠE SOCIALIZMU: SUBKULTÚRY (FETISHES OF SOCIALISM: SUBCULTURES) Document, Slovakia, 2014, 27 min Directed by: Vladislava Plančíková Documentary cycle about life during socialism. Did you like the music group Depeche Mode and their fans, did you like to tramp, or did you risk to get “b” at school for behaviour just for wearing trainers, long hair or a cross on your neck? The film is about the fight with conformity, mass character, socialist ideals, it asks if it was possible to become different, to think freely, to dress differently or just to listen to the “forbidden” music. 10 a.m. - FREEDOM EXPRESS Document, Poland, 2014, 27 min A documentary roadmovie about a trip of stupends in the track of the totalitarian regimes. Young people from the Central Europe participated in a two-week trip through the countries of the eastern bloc where they tried to understand the atmosphere of oppression, as well as the importance of the fall of communism in these countries. 10:30 a.m. – DISCUSSION AFTER THE FILM 11 a.m. - MESTO 44 (CITY 44) Drama/War film, Poland, 2014, 130 min Directed by: Jan Komasa City 44 tells stories of young people who live their lives so as every day would be their last one. It is not thanks to their braveness or carelessness – this attitude is quite natural due to the fact they face. It is the year 1944 and their stories take place in Warsaw occupied by Germans. The young Polish people feel their involvement in the underground movement not only as a patriotic obligation, but also as adventure, opportunity to show off in front of their fellows and impress the girls. Accessible to young people above 12 years of age. CONCERT 17:30 - KAREL KRYL SONGS / VIKI OLEJÁROVÁ 6:00 p.m. - STOPY V SNEHU (FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW) Document, Slovakia, 2015, 52 min Directed by: Slavomír Zrebný Documentary film about smuggling of literature to Czechoslovakia during the period of opression. Approximately 28 millions of books were destroyed, many authors were forbidden and censorship was established in the 50-ieth of the last century. The leitmotif of the film is a story of three friends who participated in smuggling of literature through mountains. In 1983, they were arrested, imprisoned and afterwards sentenced. The film analyses the phenomenon of smuggling of literature and clarifies motivations of people who unselfishly put their own freedom at risk in order to help the inner freedom of others. 7:00 p.m. - DISCUSSION AFTER FILM Discussion about phenomenon of smuggling of literature and samisdats into ČSSR. Guests: Alexander Tomský (ČR) - politologist, teacher and writer, Ondrej Krajňák - Chair of the Board of Directors ÚPN, Pavol Jakubčin - historian, ÚPN, Ján Vecan - imprisoned for smuggling Bibles. Slavomír Zrebný - director of film Stopy v snehu. FILM 8:00 p.m. – BEŽ, CHLAPČE BEŽ (RUN BOY RUN) Drama/War film, Germany/France/Poland, 2013, 112 min Directed by: Pepe Danquart Srulik was nine years old when he fleed from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. He hid himself in the close forest where he together with other fleeding Jewish children tried to survive till the end of the war. They slept in the treetops and they lived by hunting or by food they stole in the neighbouring farms. The hunger and cold forced Srulik to return to civilisation where he had to change his name for Jurek Staniak and he had to pretend that he was an orphan form a catholic family. He met people in the villages who put their own lives at risk to help him but also such people who were capable to betray him. An emotional and at the same time inspiring story about the trip of a boy who had to grow up from one day to another in order to survive. |
Humenné / 19th November 2015
Kino Fajn, Gorkého 1 FILM 9 a.m. - MOJE POVSTANIE (MY UPRISING) Short story/War film, Slovakia, 2014 Directed by: Jonáš Karásek, Marika Beňadik Majorová 4 film short stories from the project Moje povstanie (My Uprising), which was prepared for your people at the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising in order to present them this event through stories of individual heroism of ordinary people. 9:30 a.m.- FETIŠE SOCIALIZMU: SUBKULTÚRY (FETISHES OF SOCIALISM: SUBCULTURES) Document, Slovakia, 2014, 27 min Directed by: Vladislava Plančíková Documentary cycle about life during socialism. Did you like the music group Depeche Mode and their fans, did you like to tramp, or did you risk to get “b” at school for behaviour just for wearing trainers, long hair or a cross on your neck? The film is about the fight with conformity, mass character, socialist ideals, it asks if it was possible to become different, to think freely, to dress differently or just to listen to the “forbidden” music. 10 a.m. - FREEDOM EXPRESS Document, Poland, 2014, 27 min A documentary roadmovie about a trip of stupends in the track of the totalitarian regimes. Young people from the Central Europe participated in a two-week trip through the countries of the eastern bloc where they tried to understand the atmosphere of oppression, as well as the importance of the fall of communism in these countries. 10:30 a.m. – DISCUSSION AFTER THE FILM 11 a.m. - MESTO 44 (CITY 44) Drama/War film, Poland, 2014, 130 min Directed by: Jan Komasa City 44 tells stories of young people who live their lives so as every day would be their last one. It is not thanks to their braveness or carelessness – this attitude is quite natural due to the fact they face. It is the year 1944 and their stories take place in Warsaw occupied by Germans. The young Polish people feel their involvement in the underground movement not only as a patriotic obligation, but also as adventure, opportunity to show off in front of their fellows and impress the girls. Accessible to young people above 12 years of age. 4:30 p.m.- NÁVRAT DO HORIACEHO DOMU (RETURN TO THE FLAMING HOUSE) Document, SR, 2014, 70 min Directed by: Anna Grusková The documentary film Návrat do horiaceho domu (Return to the flaming house) provides a new female perspective on war. It presents the life of Chaviva Reick (1914 - 1944), heroine of the Slovak National Uprising, the member of the British Secret Service, activist and passionate Zionist. Is it worth to change love or family for heroic deeds? The film provides not only many unknown archive materials, memories of those who remember the war and traveling of Chaviva in Slovakia, in the Great Britain and in Israel, but mainly a story of an attractive personality which can also inspire people at present. 6:00 p.m. - STOPY V SNEHU (FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW) Document, Slovakia, 2015, 52 min Directed by: Slavomír Zrebný Documentary film about smuggling of literature to Czechoslovakia during the period of opression. Approximately 28 millions of books were destroyed, many authors were forbidden and censorship was established in the 50-ieth of the last century. The leitmotif of the film is a story of three friends who participated in smuggling of literature through mountains. In 1983, they were arrested, imprisoned and afterwards sentenced. The film analyses the phenomenon of smuggling of literature and clarifies motivations of people who unselfishly put their own freedom at risk in order to help the inner freedom of others. 7:00 p.m. - DISCUSSION AFTER FILM Discussion about phenomenon of smuggling of literature and samisdats into ČSSR. Guests: Ondrej Krajňák - Chair of the Board of Directors ÚPN, Pavol Jakubčin - historian, ÚPN, Slavomír Zrebný - director of film Stopy v snehu. FILM 8:00 p.m. – BEŽ, CHLAPČE BEŽ (RUN BOY RUN) Drama/War film, Germany/France/Poland, 2013, 112 min Directed by: Pepe Danquart Srulik was nine years old when he fleed from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. He hid himself in the close forest where he together with other fleeding Jewish children tried to survive till the end of the war. They slept in the treetops and they lived by hunting or by food they stole in the neighbouring farms. The hunger and cold forced Srulik to return to civilisation where he had to change his name for Jurek Staniak and he had to pretend that he was an orphan form a catholic family. He met people in the villages who put their own lives at risk to help him but also such people who were capable to betray him. An emotional and at the same time inspiring story about the trip of a boy who had to grow up from one day to another in order to survive. |
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