22-08-2014

Australia / Melbourne & Sydney: 2nd Czech & Slovak Film Festival of Australia

    CASFFA is the first and the only event dedicated to Czecho-Slovak cinema in Australia, and after the successful premiere edition in Melbourne (June 2013), the festival extends its program also to Sydney.

    This year’s edition will be an all-round cultural event focusing on the theme of resistance, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the collapse of Communism in Europe. Slovak cinema will be represented by three restored film treasures from the period of 1960s –Birdies, Orphans and Fools (1969) by Juraj Jakubisko, Before Tonight is Over (1965) and The Boxer and Death (1962) by Peter Solan, accompanied by a collection of recent fiction and documentary films, as well as a collection of short films.

    More information here: Slovak Films travel to/in Australia

    Slovak Film Institute represented by Alexandra Strelkova / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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