After the last year's success at Berlin IFF, when the Velvet Terrorists documentary won the Tagesspiegel Readers' Award, Slovak films are returning to the festival programme. The 65th Berlinale (February 5 - 15, 2015) introduces the feature debut by Ivan Ostrochovský Koza and the short animation by Martin Smatana Rosso Papavero.
The Forum section, focusing primarily on European and world premieres of independent auteur films, selected the Slovak-Czech produced Koza (2015) by Ivan Ostrochovský for the programme of its 45th edition in a world premiere. The film tells the story of a former Olympic boxer Peter Baláž, nick-named Koza, who after years of missing out on trainings, returns to the ring. To earn money and to make up his partner's mind about an abortion, he sets on a tour with his manager. The film was nominated for the Best First Feature Film Award by Festival Director Dieter Kosslick, a Jury consisting of Fernando Eimbcke (Mexico, director), Joshua Oppenheimer (USA, director) and Olga Kurylenko (actress, Ukraine - France) will decide about the Award.
Last year, the director together with his co-directors Peter Kerekes and Pavol Pekarčík, received the Tagesspiegel Reader's Award for their documentary Velvet Terrorists. Koza also caught attention of the international professional public at the 49. Karlovy Vary IFF, where it received the Works in Progress Awards for the most promising project.
Festival Screenings:
Feb 08 / 20:00 / Cubix 9 (E)
Feb 09 / 19:30 / CinemaxX 4 (E)
Feb 10 / 12:30 / Kino Arsenal 1 (E)
Feb 13 / 21:30 / CineStar 8 (E)
EFM Screenings:
Feb 7 / 16:45 / CinemaxX 1
Feb 12 / 16:45 / CinemaxX 2
The Generation section, which presents films for children and youth in its two competition programmes Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus, will present the short animation film by Martin Smatana entitled Rosso Papavero (2014) in Generation Kplus.
Smatana´s short puppet animation tells the story of a small boy with a head filled with fantasies, who witnesses a magical dream circus performance. The film received the Literary Fund Award at the Biennial of Animation Bratislava in 2014.
Festival Screenings:
Feb 10 / 10:00 / Haus der Kulturen der Welt (E)
Feb 12 / 10:30 / CinemaxX 1 (E)
Feb 13 / 09:30 / Zoo Palast 1 (E)
Feb 15 / 10:00 / Filmtheater am Friedrichshain (E)
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SLOVAK FILM INSTITUTE IN BERLIN:
Peter Dubecký / Feb 6 - 9 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. * Alexandra Strelková / Feb 5 – 11 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. * Katarína Tomková / Feb 7 – 13 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Central European Cinema Stand No. 142
It is already for 10 years, that Slovakia is present at the European Film Market in Berlin. With friends and colleagues from the Czech Republic and Slovenia within the umbrella of the Central European Cinema, the Slovak Film Institute offers an informational and promotional point for Slovak cinema and a networking place for Slovak film professionals and their international counterparts.
The team of the Slovak Film Institute is ready and happy to meet you for the 10th time at the Central European Cinema stand No. 142 in Martin Gropius Bau. There are interesting Slovak films in the official program of the festival (Koza and Rosso Papavero), as well as a quality selection in the offer of the European Film Market 2015. In addition, there are several new and upcoming films ready to be presented in the international festival circuit in 2015, also listed in the annual updated catalogue Slovak Films 14-15.
The presentation of Slovak cinema and audiovisual industry at the European Film Market is organized by the Slovak Film Institute, with financial support of tte Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, in partnership with the Slovak Cultural Institute in Berlin.
Market screenings of Slovak films at EFM 2015
Four Slovak films are presented as market screenings at the European Film Market 2015:
KOZA (Koza), dir. Ivan Ostrochovský
SK, CZ / 2015 / 75 min. / fiction / Berlinale Forum
Screenings:
Feb 7 / 16:45 / CinemaxX 1
Feb 12 / 16:45 / CinemaxX 2
Festivals&Sales: Pluto Film
Patricie Pouzarová / +49 157 8227 4916 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
HOSTAGE (Rukojemník), dir. Juraj Nvota
SK, CZ / 2014 / 102 min. / fiction
Screening:
Feb 9 / 17:10 /DFFB kino (Filmhouse)
Festivals&Sales: ALEF FILM & MEDIA
festivals: Olga Raitoralová, + 421 911 803852, + 420 732 420450, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
sales: Marian Urban, + 421 903 705 809, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
A STEP INTO THE DARK (Krok do tmy), dir. Miloslav Luther
SK / 2014 / 120 min. / fiction
Screening:
Feb 7 / 11:15 / Zoo Palast Club A
Festivals&Sales: Amadeus Entertainment
Ivo Fiorenza, +44 7958 367 159, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Trigon Production
Radka Babincova, +421 905 428 700, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
FAIR PLAY (Fair Play), dir. Andrea Sedláčková
CZ, SK, DE / 2014 / 100 min. / fiction
Screening:
► Feb 7 / 12:00 / CinemaxX Studio 17
Festivals&Sales: Intramovies
festivals: Manuela Mazzone, +39 06 807 7252, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
sales: Marco Valerio Fusco, +39 3357 052 982, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
