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.
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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
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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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.
presentation:
5:30 pm - Hungary – reconciliation with the totalitarian history
Hungarian Institute, Palisády 54, Bratislava
Lecture, documentary screening, discussion.
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.
presentation:
5:30 pm - Hungary – reconciliation with the totalitarian history
Hungarian Institute, Palisády 54, Bratislava
Lecture, documentary screening, discussion.
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.
11th NOVEMBER / Friday
panel Discussion
10:00 am - Remembrance of the students´ march on the 16th November 1989
Auditorium Maximum, Commenius University, Šafárikovo námestie 6, Bratislava
Screening of authentic scenes from the 1989 students´ march and discussion with the student´s march participants and guests.
12:00 am - Remembrance of the students´ march at the commemorative plaque in front of the Commenius University
Commenius University, Šafárikovo námestie, Bratislava
discussion
4:30 pm Why "thick line"or what are the archives of the security forces still hiding?
Lecture Hall of the University Library, Ventúrska street 11, Bratislava
Guests from Czech, Hungary, Poland and Slovak memory institutions.
theater
7:30 pm - GYPSY BOXER
Theater Malá scéna STU, Dostojevského rad 7, Bratislava
Monodrama about a former boxer. His past captures his hart, that become smaller and tries to escape. But such a heart can not shrink to infinity ... A story about friendship, which was banned in the Third Reich.
The performance lasts 70 minutes, without break.
9:00 pm - Discussion after the performance
panel Discussion
10:00 am - Remembrance of the students´ march on the 16th November 1989
Auditorium Maximum, Commenius University, Šafárikovo námestie 6, Bratislava
Screening of authentic scenes from the 1989 students´ march and discussion with the student´s march participants and guests.
12:00 am - Remembrance of the students´ march at the commemorative plaque in front of the Commenius University
Commenius University, Šafárikovo námestie, Bratislava
discussion
4:30 pm Why "thick line"or what are the archives of the security forces still hiding?
Lecture Hall of the University Library, Ventúrska street 11, Bratislava
Guests from Czech, Hungary, Poland and Slovak memory institutions.
theater
7:30 pm - GYPSY BOXER
Theater Malá scéna STU, Dostojevského rad 7, Bratislava
Monodrama about a former boxer. His past captures his hart, that become smaller and tries to escape. But such a heart can not shrink to infinity ... A story about friendship, which was banned in the Third Reich.
The performance lasts 70 minutes, without break.
9:00 pm - Discussion after the performance
12th NOVEMBER / Saturday
exhibition
3:00 pm - Exhibition opening Communism – “La Belle Epoque“
Šafárikovo square, Bratislava
Exhibition deals with the seventies in European countries of former Soviet bloc and is prepared by Institute of National Remembrance from Poland.
theater
6:00 pm Political trial reconstruction „Stříteský and comp.“
Auditorium Maximum, Commenius University, Šafárikovo námestie 6, Bratislava
Art without boundaries, Prague
Political trial reconstruction in the staging of the students from the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague.
Reconstruction of Litomyšl´s show trial "Stříteský et al.," from October 1950.
The final seminar of students from the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague in the professional responsibility of the Dean of the Law Faculty of Charles University Prof. Mgr. Jan Kuklík.
Written and directed by Mgr. Jan Řeřicha.
exhibition
3:00 pm - Exhibition opening Communism – “La Belle Epoque“
Šafárikovo square, Bratislava
Exhibition deals with the seventies in European countries of former Soviet bloc and is prepared by Institute of National Remembrance from Poland.
theater
6:00 pm Political trial reconstruction „Stříteský and comp.“
Auditorium Maximum, Commenius University, Šafárikovo námestie 6, Bratislava
Art without boundaries, Prague
Political trial reconstruction in the staging of the students from the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague.
Reconstruction of Litomyšl´s show trial "Stříteský et al.," from October 1950.
The final seminar of students from the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague in the professional responsibility of the Dean of the Law Faculty of Charles University Prof. Mgr. Jan Kuklík.
Written and directed by Mgr. Jan Řeřicha.
13th NOVEMBER / Sunday
3:00 pm - Holy mass for victims of totalitarian regimes
Blue Church, Bezručova street 2, Bratislava
4:30 pm - Gala programme of valuation of personalities
Moyzes Hall, Vajanského nábrežie 12, Bratislava
A gala programme with valuation of personalities, which fought for democracy and freedom.
Reception
Admission by invitiation only!
3:00 pm - Holy mass for victims of totalitarian regimes
Blue Church, Bezručova street 2, Bratislava
4:30 pm - Gala programme of valuation of personalities
Moyzes Hall, Vajanského nábrežie 12, Bratislava
A gala programme with valuation of personalities, which fought for democracy and freedom.
Reception
Admission by invitiation only!
17th NOVEMBER / Thursday
Theater Converging Europe III.
exhibition
4:00 pm Opening of the exhibition of scenic artists Daubrava brothers
Theater Malá scéna STU, Dostojevského rad 7, Bratislava
Curator Barbara Brathová.
discussion
5:00 pm - "Revolution ideals and reality"
Theater Malá scéna STU, Dostojevského rad 7, Bratislava
Stefan Canev as the chief guest, this year celebrating eighty, Ján Budaj and his guests.
theater
7:00 pm - Virgin Joan and Seagull
Theater Malá scéna STU, Dostojevského rad 7, Bratislava
Stefan Canev is contemporary Bulgarian author. His theatre play - two one-act plays "The second death of Joan of Arc" and "Hell-that's me" are combined into one performance. The central theme of the performance is an artist and his conscience.
18th – 20th NOVEMBER / Friday - Sunday
commemorative event
Weekend of the Closed Borders
Bicycle bridge, Devínska Nová Ves
The event is organized by the Bratislava Self-Governing Region, in collaboration with the Nation´s Memory Institute. Detailed program is here.
Theater Converging Europe III.
exhibition
4:00 pm Opening of the exhibition of scenic artists Daubrava brothers
Theater Malá scéna STU, Dostojevského rad 7, Bratislava
Curator Barbara Brathová.
discussion
5:00 pm - "Revolution ideals and reality"
Theater Malá scéna STU, Dostojevského rad 7, Bratislava
Stefan Canev as the chief guest, this year celebrating eighty, Ján Budaj and his guests.
theater
7:00 pm - Virgin Joan and Seagull
Theater Malá scéna STU, Dostojevského rad 7, Bratislava
Stefan Canev is contemporary Bulgarian author. His theatre play - two one-act plays "The second death of Joan of Arc" and "Hell-that's me" are combined into one performance. The central theme of the performance is an artist and his conscience.
18th – 20th NOVEMBER / Friday - Sunday
commemorative event
Weekend of the Closed Borders
Bicycle bridge, Devínska Nová Ves
The event is organized by the Bratislava Self-Governing Region, in collaboration with the Nation´s Memory Institute. Detailed program is here.
Festival in regions:
1st DECEMBER / Tuesday
County house, Nábrežie slobody 1, Púchov.
Complete program here.
2nd DECEMBER / Wednesday
KTC Bardejov, Radničné square 24, Bardejov
Complete program here.
County house, Nábrežie slobody 1, Púchov.
Complete program here.
2nd DECEMBER / Wednesday
KTC Bardejov, Radničné square 24, Bardejov
Complete program here.
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