Il cinema slovacco protagonista della 14ma edizione di Cinematik
- Il festival del cinema slovacco, che si svolgerà dal 10 al 15 settembre, renderà omaggio al portoghese João Pedro Rodrigues con il suo Respect Award
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One of the younger Slovakian international film festivals, Cinematik, will soon unspool for the 14th time in the spa town of Piešťany. The line-up traditionally includes the Meeting Point Europe section, which rounds up intriguing European productions from the 2018-2019 season, including Yorgos Lanthimos’ much-celebrated royal affair The Favourite [+leggi anche:
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Q&A: François Ozon
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intervista: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel S…
scheda film] by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, Sacha Polak’s Dirty God [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sacha Polak
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intervista: Bertrand Bonello
scheda film] and Julian Schnabel’s van Gogh drama starring Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Julian Schnabel
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Cinematik regularly hosts a competition for Slovakian documentaries in the Cinematik.doc section. The titles that will vie for the award this year are Tomáš Krupa’s award-winning intimate doc examining the taboo topic of death and assisted suicide, The Good Death [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Tomáš Krupa
scheda film]; Peter Kerekes’ BATAstories [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], which revolves around the story of Tomáš Baťa but also that of modern global capitalism; Swedes from the Slum, in which Katarína Farkašová tracks the lives of three Roma children adopted in Sweden as they return to their homeland to visit their biological parents; and Erik Praus’ The Calling [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], which respectfully observes “the life of monks but also shows the ostentatious beauty of the monastery”, among other movies. Domestic filmmaker Barbora Berezňáková will introduce her first feature-length project, Never Happened [+leggi anche:
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The In the House section will screen a selection of domestic features and short oeuvres by emerging talents, including the bittersweet love story by father-and-son team Víťo and Richard Staviarsky, Loli Paradicka [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Marka Staviarska
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The most prolific Slovakian filmmaker at present, Peter Bebjak, will have his post-apocalyptic web-series The Spot projected on a big screen in the Free Zone section along with Lucia Kašová’s documentary Non-Believers, which follows a group of conspiracy-theory believers on a visit to the office of one of Slovakia’s main newspapers.
Furthermore, Cinematik is organising a retrospective of celebrated Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues, which will include his works Phantom [+leggi anche:
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intervista: João Pedro Rodrigues
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scheda film]. Furthermore, a slew of recent Portuguese films will accompany the retrospective, among them Miguel Gomes’ Tabu [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Miguel Gomes
intervista: Miguel Gomes
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intervista: Pedro Cabeleira
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Q&A: Marco Martins
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The festival’s line-up also offers a wide variety of award-winning and thought-provoking European festival titles, such as Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Corneliu Porumboiu
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intervista: Céline Sciamma
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intervista: Fatih Akin
intervista: Jonas Dassler
scheda film], Hlynur Pálmason’s A White, White Day [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Hlynur Pálmason
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intervista: Jean-Pierre e Luc Dardenne
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The 14th edition of the International Film Festival Cinematik Piešťany runs from 10-15 September. The full line-up is available here.
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