All events are admission free.
9th NOVEMBER / Monday
EXHIBITION
11:00 a.m. – Opening of the exhibition "FREEDOM EXPRESS"
Námestie M. R. Štefánika (Eurovea), Bratislava
The exhibition of the Document is a complex process during which the central and eastern part of Europe liberated from the communist dictatorship. The individual parts are devoted to freedom of speech and expression, freedom of religion and belief, economic freedom and other themes which revealed different forms and faces of freedom.
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
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 and to recognise 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
EXHIBITION
11:00 a.m. – Opening of the exhibition "FREEDOM EXPRESS"
Námestie M. R. Štefánika (Eurovea), Bratislava
The exhibition of the Document is a complex process during which the central and eastern part of Europe liberated from the communist dictatorship. The individual parts are devoted to freedom of speech and expression, freedom of religion and belief, economic freedom and other themes which revealed different forms and faces of freedom.
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
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 and to recognise 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
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.
6 p.m. – FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM OPENING CEREMONY + FILM: 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.
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
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.
6 p.m. – FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM OPENING CEREMONY + FILM: 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.
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
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.
FILM
4 p.m. - ŽIVOT PODLE VÁCLAVA HAVLA (VÁCLAV HAVEL: UN HOMME LIBRE)
Document, the Czech Republic/France, 2014, 70 min
Directed by: 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
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.
FILM
7 p.m. - ANTON SRHOLEC
Document, SR, 2015, 96 min
Directed by: 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
Directed by: 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
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.
FILM
4 p.m. - ŽIVOT PODLE VÁCLAVA HAVLA (VÁCLAV HAVEL: UN HOMME LIBRE)
Document, the Czech Republic/France, 2014, 70 min
Directed by: 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
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.
FILM
7 p.m. - ANTON SRHOLEC
Document, SR, 2015, 96 min
Directed by: 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
Directed by: 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
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.
FILM
4 p.m. - PASCHA
Document, Slovakia, 2014, 45 min
Directed by: 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
Directed by: 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
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 and to recognise others.
7:30 p.m.- NIKDY NEZHASNE (IT WILL NEVER GO OUT)
Document, Slovakia, 2014, 15 min
Directed by: 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
Directed by: 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
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.
FILM
4 p.m. - PASCHA
Document, Slovakia, 2014, 45 min
Directed by: 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
Directed by: 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
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 and to recognise others.
7:30 p.m.- NIKDY NEZHASNE (IT WILL NEVER GO OUT)
Document, Slovakia, 2014, 15 min
Directed by: 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
Directed by: 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.
13th NOVEMBER / Friday
11 a.m. – Remembrance of the students´ march on the 16th November 1989
Commenius University, Šafárikovo námestie, Bratislava
Projecting of authentic scenes from the students´ march and discussion with the participants and historians.
1 p.m. – Remembrance of the students´ march at the commemorative plaque in front of the Commenius University
Commenius University, Šafárikovo námestie, Bratislava
THEATRE
6:30 p.m. - HANA (Kremnické divadlo v Podzemí / Theatre from the city of Kremnica In the underground)
A4 (the building of YMCA), Karpatská 2
„One must be totally down or very high in order to be able to make jokes.“
„Človek musí byť celkom dolu alebo bohovsky vysoko, aby si mohol robiť špásy.“
A poetic comedy based on the satiric novel of Pavel Taussig. A fairy-tale horror of a young idealist. Shall she keep her values or shall she save her father from prison? An insolvable situation of an 18-year old Hana in the period of building up the cruel socialism. Confused, indecisive, frustrated from her own powerlessness she struggled with her own conscience. The family is destroyed, the belief in goodness and fairness is suppressed. Will Hana find a fixed point? Does the way to happiness lead through the life of an ordinary fallible woman? Or do modern-day herois exist?
8:40 p.m. - Discussion after the theatre performance
Authors, actors and experts will participate in the discussion. Admission free. Capacity of the theatre is 100 seats.
11 a.m. – Remembrance of the students´ march on the 16th November 1989
Commenius University, Šafárikovo námestie, Bratislava
Projecting of authentic scenes from the students´ march and discussion with the participants and historians.
1 p.m. – Remembrance of the students´ march at the commemorative plaque in front of the Commenius University
Commenius University, Šafárikovo námestie, Bratislava
THEATRE
6:30 p.m. - HANA (Kremnické divadlo v Podzemí / Theatre from the city of Kremnica In the underground)
A4 (the building of YMCA), Karpatská 2
„One must be totally down or very high in order to be able to make jokes.“
„Človek musí byť celkom dolu alebo bohovsky vysoko, aby si mohol robiť špásy.“
A poetic comedy based on the satiric novel of Pavel Taussig. A fairy-tale horror of a young idealist. Shall she keep her values or shall she save her father from prison? An insolvable situation of an 18-year old Hana in the period of building up the cruel socialism. Confused, indecisive, frustrated from her own powerlessness she struggled with her own conscience. The family is destroyed, the belief in goodness and fairness is suppressed. Will Hana find a fixed point? Does the way to happiness lead through the life of an ordinary fallible woman? Or do modern-day herois exist?
8:40 p.m. - Discussion after the theatre performance
Authors, actors and experts will participate in the discussion. Admission free. Capacity of the theatre is 100 seats.
14th NOVEMBER / Saturday
VERNISSAGE OF EXHIBITION
5:00 p.m. - ANDRÁS CSÉFALVAY, JURAJ MYDLA, MATIN PIAČEK: 3 VERSIONS
Galéria Krokus, Námestie 1. Mája 3, Bratislava
The exhibition of representatives of three generations of the contemporary Slovak fine arts. The period before the Velvet revolution in 1989 lasted four decades, a quarter century passed after the revolution. Do we face a next break? During the vernissage will be provided a guided tour by the authors themselves.
THEATRE
7:30 p.m. - SLYŠENÍ (HEARING) (Komorní scéna Aréna / Chamber scene Arena, Ostrava)
A4 (the building of YMCA), Karpatská 2
“If we would have fifty Eichmanns we would win the war.“
The content of this play is a testimony of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in front of the God, who, of course, is not present. Eichmann tells his story in front of the audience whose seating in the auditorium resembles somehow the desk for the jury and they could decide themselves how cruel a man can be.
9:40 p.m. - Discussion after the theatre performance
Authors, actors and experts will participate in the discussion. Admission free. Capacity of the theatre is 100 seats.
VERNISSAGE OF EXHIBITION
5:00 p.m. - ANDRÁS CSÉFALVAY, JURAJ MYDLA, MATIN PIAČEK: 3 VERSIONS
Galéria Krokus, Námestie 1. Mája 3, Bratislava
The exhibition of representatives of three generations of the contemporary Slovak fine arts. The period before the Velvet revolution in 1989 lasted four decades, a quarter century passed after the revolution. Do we face a next break? During the vernissage will be provided a guided tour by the authors themselves.
THEATRE
7:30 p.m. - SLYŠENÍ (HEARING) (Komorní scéna Aréna / Chamber scene Arena, Ostrava)
A4 (the building of YMCA), Karpatská 2
“If we would have fifty Eichmanns we would win the war.“
The content of this play is a testimony of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in front of the God, who, of course, is not present. Eichmann tells his story in front of the audience whose seating in the auditorium resembles somehow the desk for the jury and they could decide themselves how cruel a man can be.
9:40 p.m. - Discussion after the theatre performance
Authors, actors and experts will participate in the discussion. Admission free. Capacity of the theatre is 100 seats.
15th NOVEMBER / Sunday
3:00 p.m. - Holy mass for victims of totalitarian regimes
The Holy Saviour Church (Jesuit Church), Franciscan Square 4, Bratislava
4:30 p.m. - Gala programme of valuation of personalities
The Hall of Mirrors of the Primate´s Palace, Primate´s Square, Bratislava
A gala programme with valuation of personalities, which fought for democracy and freedom. The event is held under the auspices of the Mayor of the capital of Slovakia Bratislava Ivo Nesrovnal. Admission by invitiation only!
8:00 p.m. - Discussion: „Censorship verzus free production“
Cultural centre Dunaj, Nedbalova 3
Reflexion of the communist period up to the present days in literature, film, philosophy and journalism (guests from Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia).
Guests: Peter Juščák (Slovakia), Lenka Zlámalová (the Czech Republic), Andrzej Jagodziński (Poland), Christian Mihr (Germany), Momčil Metodiev (Bulgaria).
3:00 p.m. - Holy mass for victims of totalitarian regimes
The Holy Saviour Church (Jesuit Church), Franciscan Square 4, Bratislava
4:30 p.m. - Gala programme of valuation of personalities
The Hall of Mirrors of the Primate´s Palace, Primate´s Square, Bratislava
A gala programme with valuation of personalities, which fought for democracy and freedom. The event is held under the auspices of the Mayor of the capital of Slovakia Bratislava Ivo Nesrovnal. Admission by invitiation only!
8:00 p.m. - Discussion: „Censorship verzus free production“
Cultural centre Dunaj, Nedbalova 3
Reflexion of the communist period up to the present days in literature, film, philosophy and journalism (guests from Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia).
Guests: Peter Juščák (Slovakia), Lenka Zlámalová (the Czech Republic), Andrzej Jagodziński (Poland), Christian Mihr (Germany), Momčil Metodiev (Bulgaria).
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