All events are admission free. The international film festival takes place in the Cinema Lumière (Špitálska 2206/4, Bratislava)
The international film festival takes place under the auspices of the Minister of Culture SR Marek Maďarič
The international film festival takes place under the auspices of the Minister of Culture SR Marek Maďarič
9th NOVEMBER / Monday
FILM
8:30 p.m. - STOPY V SNEHU (FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW)
Univerzitné pastoračné centrum (University pastoral centre), Mlynská dolina, Bratislava
Document, Slovakia, 2015, 52 min
Director: 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.
DISCUSSION AFTER THE FILM
9:30 p.m.- OPERÁCIA "KAMELOT"(OPERATION “CAMELOT”)
Univerzitné pastoračné centrum (University pastoral centre), Mlynská dolina, Bratislava
Operation „Camelot“ was the assumed title of the case of the three imprisoned men who smuggled literature from Poland to Czechoslovakia.
Guests during discussion: Branislav Borovský and Tomáš Konc – sentenced for smuggling of literature, Slavomír Zrebný – director of the film
FILM
8:30 p.m. - STOPY V SNEHU (FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW)
Univerzitné pastoračné centrum (University pastoral centre), Mlynská dolina, Bratislava
Document, Slovakia, 2015, 52 min
Director: 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.
DISCUSSION AFTER THE FILM
9:30 p.m.- OPERÁCIA "KAMELOT"(OPERATION “CAMELOT”)
Univerzitné pastoračné centrum (University pastoral centre), Mlynská dolina, Bratislava
Operation „Camelot“ was the assumed title of the case of the three imprisoned men who smuggled literature from Poland to Czechoslovakia.
Guests during discussion: Branislav Borovský and Tomáš Konc – sentenced for smuggling of literature, Slavomír Zrebný – director of the film
10th NOVEMBER / Tuesday
The international film festival takes place in the Cinema Lumière (Špitálska 2206/4, Bratislava)
The morning performances (9 a.m. – 1 p.m.) are reserved for students of primary and secondary schools after booking.
FILM
9 a.m. - MOJE POVSTANIE (MY UPRISING)
Short story/War film, Slovakia, 2014
Director: 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
Director: 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
Director: 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.
6 p.m. – FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM OPENING CEREMONY + FILM: BEŽ, CHLAPČE BEŽ (RUN BOY RUN)
Drama/War film, Germany/France/Poland, 2013, 112 min
Director: 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.
You are invited for a glass of wine after the film.
The international film festival takes place in the Cinema Lumière (Špitálska 2206/4, Bratislava)
The morning performances (9 a.m. – 1 p.m.) are reserved for students of primary and secondary schools after booking.
FILM
9 a.m. - MOJE POVSTANIE (MY UPRISING)
Short story/War film, Slovakia, 2014
Director: 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
Director: 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
Director: 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.
6 p.m. – FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM OPENING CEREMONY + FILM: BEŽ, CHLAPČE BEŽ (RUN BOY RUN)
Drama/War film, Germany/France/Poland, 2013, 112 min
Director: 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.
You are invited for a glass of wine after the film.
11th NOVEMBER / Wednesday
The international film festival takes place in the Cinema Lumière (Špitálska 2206/4, Bratislava)
The morning performances (9 a.m. – 1 p.m.) are reserved for students of primary and secondary schools after booking.
FILM
9 a.m. - MOJE POVSTANIE (MY UPRISING)
Short story/War film, Slovakia, 2014
Director: 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
Director: 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
Director: 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.
FILM
4 p.m. - ŽIVOT PODLE VÁCLAVA HAVLA (VÁCLAV HAVEL: UN HOMME LIBRE)
Document, the Czech Republic/France, 2014, 70 min
Director: Andrea Sedláčková
Many hours of material about Václav Havel were shot but despite of it a biographic film about the lifelong story of the great European was missing. The eventful life of Václav Havel – his family, childhood, his loves, dramatic authorship and political activities – captured the film director Andrea Sedláčková in a documentary film. She presents Václav Havel in all his life phases and roles, also as an intellectual rebel, women and life lover or fan of underground and rockers.
FILM
5:30 p.m.- NÁVRAT DO HORIACEHO DOMU (RETURN TO THE FLAMING HOUSE)
Document, SR, 2014, 70 min
Director: 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.
FILM
7 p.m. - ANTON SRHOLEC
Document, SR, 2015, 96 min
Director: Alena Čermáková
Documentary film about the life of Anton Srholec, a man who never abandoned his principles – to love people and the God despite of his life circumstances, and to fight for a better world in the middle of the corrupted world.
FILM
9 p.m. - OSEMDESIAT LISTOV (EIGHTY LETTERS)
Drama, CR, 2010, 75 min
Director: Václav Kadrnka
One day in the communist Czechoslovakia inspired by the life of the film director.
The 14-year old Vašek went with his mother to get permission to visit his father who emigrated to the Great Britain. The director of the film Václav Kadrnka tells his personal story about seclusion and longing for being with the beloved person despite of the difficult circumstances, about persistence and resilience, how a lot of people in the former regime had to face the absurd bureaucratic system. The atmosphere of disinterest and shabbiness is in contrast with the cincerity and depth of the relation of Vašek to his mother and father. The film received the prize of the Czech critics for the discovery in 2011 and was successfully shown at Berlinale.
The international film festival takes place in the Cinema Lumière (Špitálska 2206/4, Bratislava)
The morning performances (9 a.m. – 1 p.m.) are reserved for students of primary and secondary schools after booking.
FILM
9 a.m. - MOJE POVSTANIE (MY UPRISING)
Short story/War film, Slovakia, 2014
Director: 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
Director: 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
Director: 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.
FILM
4 p.m. - ŽIVOT PODLE VÁCLAVA HAVLA (VÁCLAV HAVEL: UN HOMME LIBRE)
Document, the Czech Republic/France, 2014, 70 min
Director: Andrea Sedláčková
Many hours of material about Václav Havel were shot but despite of it a biographic film about the lifelong story of the great European was missing. The eventful life of Václav Havel – his family, childhood, his loves, dramatic authorship and political activities – captured the film director Andrea Sedláčková in a documentary film. She presents Václav Havel in all his life phases and roles, also as an intellectual rebel, women and life lover or fan of underground and rockers.
FILM
5:30 p.m.- NÁVRAT DO HORIACEHO DOMU (RETURN TO THE FLAMING HOUSE)
Document, SR, 2014, 70 min
Director: 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.
FILM
7 p.m. - ANTON SRHOLEC
Document, SR, 2015, 96 min
Director: Alena Čermáková
Documentary film about the life of Anton Srholec, a man who never abandoned his principles – to love people and the God despite of his life circumstances, and to fight for a better world in the middle of the corrupted world.
FILM
9 p.m. - OSEMDESIAT LISTOV (EIGHTY LETTERS)
Drama, CR, 2010, 75 min
Director: Václav Kadrnka
One day in the communist Czechoslovakia inspired by the life of the film director.
The 14-year old Vašek went with his mother to get permission to visit his father who emigrated to the Great Britain. The director of the film Václav Kadrnka tells his personal story about seclusion and longing for being with the beloved person despite of the difficult circumstances, about persistence and resilience, how a lot of people in the former regime had to face the absurd bureaucratic system. The atmosphere of disinterest and shabbiness is in contrast with the cincerity and depth of the relation of Vašek to his mother and father. The film received the prize of the Czech critics for the discovery in 2011 and was successfully shown at Berlinale.
12th NOVEMBER / Thursday
The international film festival takes place in the Cinema Lumière (Špitálska 2206/4, Bratislava)
The morning performances (9 a.m. – 1 p.m.) are reserved for students of primary and secondary schools after booking.
FILM
9 a.m. - MOJE POVSTANIE (MY UPRISING)
Short story/War film, Slovakia, 2014
Director: 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
Director: 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
Director: 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.
FILM
4 p.m. - PASCHA
Document, Slovakia, 2014, 45 min
Director: Ivica Kušíková
From suffering to life. Travelling from the darkness to the light, from the suffering to the victorious crowning. All those who have taken the challenges of the life as part of their life path and did not give up know this very well. The Orthodox Church in Slovakia was suffering mainly in the 50-ieth of the last century. A father and his son, priests, who managed their place in the era to which they were called to, speak about the persecuted as well as current church.
5 p.m. - BEATS OF FREEDOM
Document/Musical film, Poland, 2010, 72 min
Director: Leszek Gnoiński Wojciech Słota
A unique documentary film where the legends of the Polish rock music speak about the period of the 80-tieth of the last century. The audience can listen to unique stories about comparison of the totalitarian regime with creation of islands of freedom of young people.
6:00 p.m.- STOPY V SNEHU (FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW)
Document, Slovakia, 2015, 52 min
Director: 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.
7:30 p.m.- NIKDY NEZHASNE (IT WILL NEVER GO OUT)
Document, Slovakia, 2014, 15 min
Director: Peter Vlkovič
Candle demonstration or Bratislava Good Friday was a peaceful demonstration of citizens for religious and civil rights and freedoms in the socialist Czechoslovakia which was held on 25th March 1988 in Bratislava. Today, after several years, it is considered as one of the most important oppositions of citizens and believers against the communist regime.
8 p.m. – FÉNIX (PHOENIX)
Drama, Germany, 2014, 98 min
Director: Christian Petzold
June 1945. Injured and scarred Nelly who experienced Auschwitz is returning home to Berlin. She is accompanied by Lene, an employee of a Jewish agency and her friend from the time before the war. Nelly did not recover properly from operation of her face and despite Lene´s warning she decided to find her husband Johnny, love of her life, who refused to leave her and protected her against persecution of Nazis for a long time. Nelly´s family died during holocaust and Johnny was persuaded that his wife did not survive either. When Nelly finds him, Johnny does not suspect that it is his wife, he just thinks that it is a woman who resembles her. However, hoping that he will get the heritage of her family, he aks Nelly to take over the identity of her departed wife. Nelly agrees and takes over the role of herself. She wants to find out if Johnny loved her and if he betrayed her. And she wanted to get back her former life.
The international film festival takes place in the Cinema Lumière (Špitálska 2206/4, Bratislava)
The morning performances (9 a.m. – 1 p.m.) are reserved for students of primary and secondary schools after booking.
FILM
9 a.m. - MOJE POVSTANIE (MY UPRISING)
Short story/War film, Slovakia, 2014
Director: 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
Director: 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
Director: 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.
FILM
4 p.m. - PASCHA
Document, Slovakia, 2014, 45 min
Director: Ivica Kušíková
From suffering to life. Travelling from the darkness to the light, from the suffering to the victorious crowning. All those who have taken the challenges of the life as part of their life path and did not give up know this very well. The Orthodox Church in Slovakia was suffering mainly in the 50-ieth of the last century. A father and his son, priests, who managed their place in the era to which they were called to, speak about the persecuted as well as current church.
5 p.m. - BEATS OF FREEDOM
Document/Musical film, Poland, 2010, 72 min
Director: Leszek Gnoiński Wojciech Słota
A unique documentary film where the legends of the Polish rock music speak about the period of the 80-tieth of the last century. The audience can listen to unique stories about comparison of the totalitarian regime with creation of islands of freedom of young people.
6:00 p.m.- STOPY V SNEHU (FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW)
Document, Slovakia, 2015, 52 min
Director: 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.
7:30 p.m.- NIKDY NEZHASNE (IT WILL NEVER GO OUT)
Document, Slovakia, 2014, 15 min
Director: Peter Vlkovič
Candle demonstration or Bratislava Good Friday was a peaceful demonstration of citizens for religious and civil rights and freedoms in the socialist Czechoslovakia which was held on 25th March 1988 in Bratislava. Today, after several years, it is considered as one of the most important oppositions of citizens and believers against the communist regime.
8 p.m. – FÉNIX (PHOENIX)
Drama, Germany, 2014, 98 min
Director: Christian Petzold
June 1945. Injured and scarred Nelly who experienced Auschwitz is returning home to Berlin. She is accompanied by Lene, an employee of a Jewish agency and her friend from the time before the war. Nelly did not recover properly from operation of her face and despite Lene´s warning she decided to find her husband Johnny, love of her life, who refused to leave her and protected her against persecution of Nazis for a long time. Nelly´s family died during holocaust and Johnny was persuaded that his wife did not survive either. When Nelly finds him, Johnny does not suspect that it is his wife, he just thinks that it is a woman who resembles her. However, hoping that he will get the heritage of her family, he aks Nelly to take over the identity of her departed wife. Nelly agrees and takes over the role of herself. She wants to find out if Johnny loved her and if he betrayed her. And she wanted to get back her former life.
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