2020 – 2021 Tourists by Mária Kralovič Euro Connection 2021 participant
2020 – 2021
Slovak short films
Slovak short films
Fiction Boredom
Greetings From Nigeria
Leporello of My Paltriness
Nuda
Pozdrav z Nigérie
Leporelo z mojej naničhodnosti
directed by Alica Bednáriková
directed by Peter Hoferica
directed by Kristián Grupač
SK, 2020, 19 min.
SK, 2020, 17 min.
SK, 2020, 20 min.
Boredom follows the life of a young
When grandpa Emil gets an email
Quido Habereck is a weirdo who is
girl, Greta, a pathological liar. By using
from the Nigerian Prince asking
looking for his own place between the
unreliable narration of the story, she
for financial help, he has no choice
worlds on the border of two parallel
deceives not only the characters, but
(despite the disapproval of the rest of
realities. He invites us into his fantasy
the viewer himself. This manipulative
his family) other than to send him the
bubble in the form of a picture book,
nature of hers leads to an absurd chain
money. The Nigerian Prince promis-
a concertina fold.
of events, after which Greta as a char-
es not only his royal gratitude but also
acter is, as she should be, completely
half of his heritage in return.
transformed. Except that she isn’t. Out of Pure Conscience
Sonia Loves, Sonia Doesn’t
Pre čisté svedomie
Soňa má rada, Soňa nemá rada
directed by Matúš Ryšan
directed by Natalia Beliaeva
SK, 2020, 27 min.
SK – RU, 2020, 15 min.
A young ministry employee, Kristína,
One day spent in the expectation of
blows the whistle on the embezzle-
upcoming happiness: walking around
ment of state funds. While battling
the town, shop after shop, two sisters
with the aftermath, she now has
check on the present, Sonia the doll.
to face the isolation within herself.
There’s just a bit longer to wait and
Future Frames 2020 selection
they‘ll be together at last. Despite the danger of Sonia leaving for another girl before B day, and the adult world destroying a child‘s dreams, everything in this story will be different.
Animation Cate Strophe Saving Christmas
Lunate
Kata Strofová a tajomstvo snehových
directed by Klára Fedora Homzová
vločiek
SK, 2020, 5 min.
directed by Veronika Kocourková SK, 2020, 26 min.
The livelihood of the young shepherd girl Sól and her father is being ter-
Cate Strophe, the intrepid reporter of
rorised by a werewolf. The father is
Ka-Boom TV, experienced an unusu-
departing to fight the animal and Sól
al story long ago when she was a little
is ordered to stay at home. Unable to
girl. Just like all children, Cate loves
bear the fear and uncertainty, on hear-
Christmas. Especially a snowy Christ-
ing him scream, she runs out. Will she
mas. However, one year absolutely no
find the strength to defeat the beast?
snow fell at all. Cate wanted to discover what the matter was so she climbed up the fire ladder all the way up to the clouds where she experienced an unbelievable adventure. Will Cate manage to save the white Christmas?
Documentary Attention All Passengers
Fighter
ICONS
Cestujúcim do pozornosti
Bojovník
IKONY
directed by Marek Moučka
directed by Matúš Men
various directors
SK, 2020, 19 min.
SK, 2020, 26 min.
SK, 2020, 6 x 26 min.
A train crushing a suicide is unstop-
The movie captures the life of an
A documentary series about
pable, just like this world. Mere
MMA fighter, struggling with his
a remarkable generation of archi-
fractions of a second determine what
inner fight in order to win the phys-
tects who, during the Socialist era of
the driver will dream about and how
ical one. Jozef is regaining his inner
the second half of 20th century, put
it will affect his psyche. The film is
strength and persistence to get back
Slovakia on the world map of archi-
about coping with a tragic event
into shape after the last fight that
tecture.
through a mass portrait of men from
he lost. His road to success would
the train cab and about the helpless-
be harder without the support of his
ness they experience when they apply
closest ones.
the brakes and shut their eyes at a speed of 100 kilometres per hour. In Shallow Water
Orchestra From the Land of Silence
project motherhood
V plytkej vode
Orchester z krajiny ticha
directed by Lea Hanzelová
directed by Marek Moučka
directed by Lucia Kašová
& Michal Babinec
SK, 2020, 10 min.
SK, 2020, 30 min.
SK – ES, 2020, 10 min.
Finding connections between Christ-
Zohra – the first female orchestra
Lea is a first-time mom who has it all
mas traditional dish and sentenced
of Afghanistan. Girls are preparing
– healthy kid, loving husband, sup-
prisoners leads to closer look on
for their journey to play a concert
portive family and a nice cozy home.
questions about the meaning of free-
in Europe. We see their everyday
She always wanted to have kids and
dom and identity. Faces that cannot
reality in contemporary Afghan-
thought she would feel complete once
be recognized but their voice still
istan through eyes of 16 year old
her son Elias is born. But the reality of
remains. Is debt towards society
girl Marzia. After arriving in Europe
the first months with the newborn was
redeemable with sorrow?
unexpected thing happens and four
nothing like she had expected. She is
members of the orchestra decide to
exhausted, sleep deprived, trapped and
run away…
struggles. She is stuck in a never ending cycle of breastfeeding, changing nappies and putting the baby to sleep. She
Titanic in the Sky Titanik directed by Katarína Jonisová SK, 2020, 15 min. Roman Radkovič formed a unique band with friends from the accommodation for people with special needs. In songs, he expresses his horror of the end of the world, which he expects on a daily basis. With the advent of the global pandemic, we found ourselves at home, isolated and dependent on a phone connection. Life temporarily comes to a stop, so we can look back.
doesn’t feel happy. Is she a bad mom?
And more to come Eco Terro
Liars, Tramps and Thieves
Mercy
directed by Matúš Vizár
Klamári, tuláci a zlodeji
Milosť
animation, SK – CZ, 2021, 15 min.
directed by David Benedek
directed by Ivana Laučíková
fiction, SK, 2021, 25 min.
animation, SK, 2021, 16 min.
to rescue tens of hens struggling along
Nikola has just graduated and has
Mercy is a film about the rise of evil.
in tiny cages at the chicken-farm. May-
an exact idea about future. After the
It arises from an actual event that
be they do it for the first time, maybe
breakup with her boyfriend, plans start
happened in 2006 when a group of
not, but it seems they know what to
to fall apart. She gets up on her feet,
skinheads physically attacked autistic
expect.
takes a job in a strip club and tries to
musicians and destroyed their hands
flee from disfunctional relationships.
so they could no longer play their
A group of four activists is on their way
instruments.
Money and Happiness
Once There Was a Sea...
Pattern 97
O novcu i sreći
Bolo raz jedno more...
Vzor 97
directed by Ana Nedeljković
directed by Joanna Kożuch
directed by Paula Reiselová
& Nikola Majdak Jr.
animated documentary,
documentary, SK, 2021, 35 min.
animation, RS – SI – SK, 2021, 8 min.
SK – PL, 2021, 15 min.
Hamsters live and work hard in
This film is inspired by the Aral Sea and
od of observation to follow various
Hamsterland, a perfect country
the stories of the people the director
forms of war in human life. On a large
with a perfect economy. The GDP is
met when she was exploring the dis-
documentary stage, we watch the
constantly rising, there is no unem-
aster of the Aral Sea, which has more
spectacles of war in times of peace.
ployment, and 100% of the population
or less disappeared due to ill-informed
The film balances on the edge
consider themselves happy. Of course,
decisions made by the comrades from
between being a play and reality, the
as with any attempt to forcibly cre-
the Soviet Union.
one becoming the other and vice ver-
ate a perfect society, the world of the
Euro Connection 2019 participant
sa. Where has our perception of war
This essayistic film uses the meth-
hamsters has its dark side, which we
shifted to over the years and what
gradually discover over the course of
form did the war take?
the film.
Slovak Film Institute
Rheum
A Silent Field
Taurophilia
Ospalky
Ticho na poli
Taurofília
directed by Kateřina Hroníková
directed by Štefánia Lovasová
directed by Francesco Montagner
fiction, SK, 2021, 28 min.
fiction, SK, 2021, 20 min.
experimental, CZ – SK, 2021, 15 min.
Libuše and Jaromír, an elderly couple,
Ivana is a thirteen-year-old girl living in
A visually original research into
pass their time in a vicious circle of
a forgotten village in Eastern Slovakia.
traditional Spanish bull taxider-
routine activities and constant phys-
The story portrays the suffering of the
my, a reflection on the relationship
ical proximity that has led to them
youngest generation under a system
between man and animal, an abstract
becoming emotionally distant. The
driven by money, not by law.
study of the relationship between man
promise of change comes in the form
and his own body and the body of an
of a company called The Sun.
animal.
Grösslingová 32 SK-811 09 Bratislava www.sfu.sk
Lea Pagáčová
short film coordinator lea.pagacova@sfu.sk www.aic.sk