Slovak Short Films 2020 – 2021

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.

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Lea Pagáčová

short film coordinator lea.pagacova@sfu.sk www.aic.sk