At the moment we are preparing the programme of the Freedom Festival 2017...
All events are admission free.
8th NOVEMBER / Tuesday
International Film Festival, Lumière cinema, Špitálska 4, Bratislava
Morning performances block (9:00 to 1:00 p.m.) is reserved for students of primary and secondary schools upon reservation.
9:00 am - 4 SHORT MOVIES IN THE PERIOD OF OPPRESSION
Short movies / Czech Republic / 2012
Imrich Gablech, Miluška Havlůjová, Anna Magdalena Schwarzová, Luboš Jednorožec
Through the short movies, we learn not only the story of a man, also the story of our country. Four short films are created by the unique technique of animated comics. Under the guidance of Oscar-winning director Jan Svěrák, young artists and animator created the copyright works, which reflect the theme of the second period resistance.
9:30 am - SOUND IN THE SILENCE
Document / Poland / Slovak Republic / 2016 /26 min
Documentary road movie about students traveling from Auschwitz to Žilina. On this journey they visit the concentration camp, they meet with historians and artists. They will will discuss and finally together create a work that reflects their experience and approach to the topic.
10:00 am - Discussion with the students
10:30 am - RUN, BOY, RUN
Drama / Germany / France / Poland / 2013 / 112 min
Srulik is nine years old when in 1942 flees from the Warsaw ghetto. Hid in the nearby woods, where along with other Jewish children is trying to survive the end of the war. Sleeping in the trees and feed on what they catch themselves or steal on farms. Hunger and cold forced Srulik to return back to civilization where he must change the name to Jurek Staniak and pretend to be orphan of a Catholic family.
In the villages we will meet people who risk their lives to help him, but also those who are able to betray him. Touching and inspiring at the same time, the story of the journey of a boy who had from one day to reach in order to survive.
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6:00 pm - Freedom Festival opening ceremony + film screening TEACHER
Drama / Slovak Republic / Czech Republic / 2016 / 102 min
The story takes place in 1983. In a suburban elementary school director meets with parents of one of the classes. Together they are looking for a way to get rid of teacher, childless widow of a high military officer. Of course the parental meetings gradually reveals how a teacher is conquering students and their families to handle the whole area.
Glass of wine
8th NOVEMBER / Tuesday
International Film Festival, Lumière cinema, Špitálska 4, Bratislava
Morning performances block (9:00 to 1:00 p.m.) is reserved for students of primary and secondary schools upon reservation.
9:00 am - 4 SHORT MOVIES IN THE PERIOD OF OPPRESSION
Short movies / Czech Republic / 2012
Imrich Gablech, Miluška Havlůjová, Anna Magdalena Schwarzová, Luboš Jednorožec
Through the short movies, we learn not only the story of a man, also the story of our country. Four short films are created by the unique technique of animated comics. Under the guidance of Oscar-winning director Jan Svěrák, young artists and animator created the copyright works, which reflect the theme of the second period resistance.
9:30 am - SOUND IN THE SILENCE
Document / Poland / Slovak Republic / 2016 /26 min
Documentary road movie about students traveling from Auschwitz to Žilina. On this journey they visit the concentration camp, they meet with historians and artists. They will will discuss and finally together create a work that reflects their experience and approach to the topic.
10:00 am - Discussion with the students
10:30 am - RUN, BOY, RUN
Drama / Germany / France / Poland / 2013 / 112 min
Srulik is nine years old when in 1942 flees from the Warsaw ghetto. Hid in the nearby woods, where along with other Jewish children is trying to survive the end of the war. Sleeping in the trees and feed on what they catch themselves or steal on farms. Hunger and cold forced Srulik to return back to civilization where he must change the name to Jurek Staniak and pretend to be orphan of a Catholic family.
In the villages we will meet people who risk their lives to help him, but also those who are able to betray him. Touching and inspiring at the same time, the story of the journey of a boy who had from one day to reach in order to survive.
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6:00 pm - Freedom Festival opening ceremony + film screening TEACHER
Drama / Slovak Republic / Czech Republic / 2016 / 102 min
The story takes place in 1983. In a suburban elementary school director meets with parents of one of the classes. Together they are looking for a way to get rid of teacher, childless widow of a high military officer. Of course the parental meetings gradually reveals how a teacher is conquering students and their families to handle the whole area.
Glass of wine
9th NOVEMBER / Wednesday
International Film Festival, Lumière cinema, Špitálska 4, Bratislava
Morning performances block (9:00 to 1:00 p.m.) is reserved for students of primary and secondary schools upon reservation.
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5:00 pm - SOUND IN THE SILENCE
Document / Poland / Slovak Republic / 2016 /26 min
Documentary road movie about students traveling from Auschwitz to Žilina. On this journey they visit the concentration camp, they meet with historians and artists. They will will discuss and finally together create a work that reflects their experience and approach to the topic.
6:00 pm - UNDER THE SUN
Document / Russia / Czech Republic / Germany / North Korea /Latvia / 2015 / 106 min
After years of negotiation the Russian director Vitaly Mansky was invited by the North Korean government to make a film about one girl and her family in the year she prepares to join the Children's Union, on the 'Day of the Shining Star' (Kim Jong-Il's birthday).... Documentary filmmaker had led to run the camera also at the moments when scenes are pre-arranged by North Korean "director". Or focused the camera on the incriminating details that fled before the masters of manipulation.
20:30 pm - SON OF SAUL
Drama / Hungary / 2015 / 107 min
The film won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film.
October 1944, the harrowing drama set in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp during the second world war. Directed by László Nemes. Son of Saul focusses on a Sonderkommando, one of the camp inmates forced to conduct new arrivals to the gas chambers. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi and offer the boy a proper burial. Filmed with a fearless sense of authenticity, it is a brutal study of a horrific time in human existence.
International Film Festival, Lumière cinema, Špitálska 4, Bratislava
Morning performances block (9:00 to 1:00 p.m.) is reserved for students of primary and secondary schools upon reservation.
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5:00 pm - SOUND IN THE SILENCE
Document / Poland / Slovak Republic / 2016 /26 min
Documentary road movie about students traveling from Auschwitz to Žilina. On this journey they visit the concentration camp, they meet with historians and artists. They will will discuss and finally together create a work that reflects their experience and approach to the topic.
6:00 pm - UNDER THE SUN
Document / Russia / Czech Republic / Germany / North Korea /Latvia / 2015 / 106 min
After years of negotiation the Russian director Vitaly Mansky was invited by the North Korean government to make a film about one girl and her family in the year she prepares to join the Children's Union, on the 'Day of the Shining Star' (Kim Jong-Il's birthday).... Documentary filmmaker had led to run the camera also at the moments when scenes are pre-arranged by North Korean "director". Or focused the camera on the incriminating details that fled before the masters of manipulation.
20:30 pm - SON OF SAUL
Drama / Hungary / 2015 / 107 min
The film won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film.
October 1944, the harrowing drama set in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp during the second world war. Directed by László Nemes. Son of Saul focusses on a Sonderkommando, one of the camp inmates forced to conduct new arrivals to the gas chambers. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi and offer the boy a proper burial. Filmed with a fearless sense of authenticity, it is a brutal study of a horrific time in human existence.
10th NOVEMBER / Thursday
International Film Festival, Lumière cinema, Špitálska 4, Bratislava
Morning performances block (9:00 to 1:00 p.m.) is reserved for students of primary and secondary schools upon reservation.
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4:00 pm - THE MESSAGE OF JAN PALACH
Document / Czech Republic / 2008 / 57 min
Director Kristina Vlachová has in his film focused on the family background of the student Jan Palach, his friends, classmates and teachers, to clarify his motive of burnt offering. Archives of the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic issued new documents, previously unknown photographs and further information about Palach. And there were found never published film footage of his funeral and the demonstrations that succeeded it. The film wants to contribute to a better understanding of the meaning of Palach's absurd sacrifice.
5:10 pm - RINO - SPY STORY
Document / Czech Republic / 2015 / 96 min
Czech film about the most famous spy of the late 20th century, Karl Köchers, Director Jakub Wagner finished after five years of research and filming. Rino image - spy story describes a stylized manner biographical story of a man who is known as the only former Eastern Bloc spy, who managed to successfully break into the CIA and carry away the information for the Czechoslovak intelligence and the KGB.
7:00 pm - RED ARMY
Document / USA / Russia / 2014 / 85 min
American-Russian documentary film directed, produced, and written by Gabe Polsky. The film tells the story of the Soviet Union national ice hockey team through the eyes of team captain Slava Fetisov. The film details the link between sports and politics. The film also narrates how players were wooed by National Hockey League scouts and eventually flooded NHL rosters. The film is particularly harsh on the ruthless tactics of coach Viktor Tikhonov about whom none of the players have a kind word.,
20:45 pm - SILENT PAIN
Drama / Czechoslovakia / 1990 / 95 min
Ballad of the black barons, of desire for freedom and the aroma of plum brandy. The film "Silent Pain" is back in the fifties, marked by human tragedy and suffering. Autobiographical script by Jiři Křižan was shot by director Martin Hollý in the 1990. Film tells the story of Janko Kadava, whose father was arrested in 1949, convicted and executed as a "class enemy". The mother died shortly after his father and Janko remained only grandfather. The story takes place in two time levels and looks like "disintegration" in the tragicomic episodes from ptp military service and bitter childhood memories, full of iniquity by classmates and adults. The only bright spot of Janko´s memories is his grandfather. Wise and honest old man who raised him after the death of his parents in a small village.
International Film Festival, Lumière cinema, Špitálska 4, Bratislava
Morning performances block (9:00 to 1:00 p.m.) is reserved for students of primary and secondary schools upon reservation.
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4:00 pm - THE MESSAGE OF JAN PALACH
Document / Czech Republic / 2008 / 57 min
Director Kristina Vlachová has in his film focused on the family background of the student Jan Palach, his friends, classmates and teachers, to clarify his motive of burnt offering. Archives of the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic issued new documents, previously unknown photographs and further information about Palach. And there were found never published film footage of his funeral and the demonstrations that succeeded it. The film wants to contribute to a better understanding of the meaning of Palach's absurd sacrifice.
5:10 pm - RINO - SPY STORY
Document / Czech Republic / 2015 / 96 min
Czech film about the most famous spy of the late 20th century, Karl Köchers, Director Jakub Wagner finished after five years of research and filming. Rino image - spy story describes a stylized manner biographical story of a man who is known as the only former Eastern Bloc spy, who managed to successfully break into the CIA and carry away the information for the Czechoslovak intelligence and the KGB.
7:00 pm - RED ARMY
Document / USA / Russia / 2014 / 85 min
American-Russian documentary film directed, produced, and written by Gabe Polsky. The film tells the story of the Soviet Union national ice hockey team through the eyes of team captain Slava Fetisov. The film details the link between sports and politics. The film also narrates how players were wooed by National Hockey League scouts and eventually flooded NHL rosters. The film is particularly harsh on the ruthless tactics of coach Viktor Tikhonov about whom none of the players have a kind word.,
20:45 pm - SILENT PAIN
Drama / Czechoslovakia / 1990 / 95 min
Ballad of the black barons, of desire for freedom and the aroma of plum brandy. The film "Silent Pain" is back in the fifties, marked by human tragedy and suffering. Autobiographical script by Jiři Křižan was shot by director Martin Hollý in the 1990. Film tells the story of Janko Kadava, whose father was arrested in 1949, convicted and executed as a "class enemy". The mother died shortly after his father and Janko remained only grandfather. The story takes place in two time levels and looks like "disintegration" in the tragicomic episodes from ptp military service and bitter childhood memories, full of iniquity by classmates and adults. The only bright spot of Janko´s memories is his grandfather. Wise and honest old man who raised him after the death of his parents in a small village.
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