New Visegrad Cinema

Szczecin European Film Festival 2014: 02.10.2014, Thursday, 16:00
Studio TVP3 Szczecin, Niedziałkowskiego 24a (where is that?)
Blok tematyczny: The Fourth Dimension of Europe

Films

  • Dva nula108'

    Dva nula / Two Nil
    Production: CZE 2012

    ”Only where things can be seen by many in a variety of aspects without changing their identity, so that those who are gathered around them know they see sameness in utter diversity, can worldly reality truly and reliably appear.”
    (Hannah Arendt)

    At a football stadium in the very heart of Prague the biggest Czech football match of the year is about to take place. The live broadcast begins. This time, however, the twenty-two film cameras are not aimed at the pitch, but at the stands. They record how various people experience one common event. A little footballer, a bettor, a member of the security service, a distinguished literary critic, a lady in the VIP lounge or disoriented Italian tourist. Each character represents a unique version of the same match.

     

     

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  • Hviezda

    Hviezda / The Star
    SVK 2012

    The documentary film "Hviezda (The Star)" tells a story of Jan Slovak, a 55 year old welder, who fell in love with acting. His desire began, when he got the lead role in a theatrical adaptation of the worst movie of all time, Plan 9 From Outer Space by Ed Wood Jr. The passion for theatre became his destiny.


     

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  • Menjek/Mardajak: New York30'

    Menjek/Mardajak: New York / Leave/Stay: New York
    Production: HUN 2013

    In the recent two decades, the number of Hungarians considering living in a foreign country has tripled. Leave/Stay: New York is the pilot episode of independent documentary film series on the migration trends, life experiences, dilemmas and world of the contemporary Hungarian youth, the generation of the “new mobility”. Mirjam and Attila, two young Hungarians, the main characters of the movie, live their everyday lives in New York City. They left their home country with different goals; they live lives very different from one another, yet they are bound by the same dilemma of leaving or staying.

     

     

     

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Associated artists

  • Andrej Kolenčík

    Andrej Kolenčík nicknamed Admiral (b. 3.8.1984 in Bratislava) is a film director and visual artist. He graduated from Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava. At present he ́s working as a freelance film director of fiction and also animation films, music videos as well as a program director of well known Slovak international animation festival Fest Anča. „Hviezda“ is his debut documentary film.

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  • Loránd Balázs IMRE

    Born in 1979, in Balassagyarmat, Hungary. Stories have interested him from an early age. At university, he studied literature and journalism. Years spent in the US formed his identity. In 2008, he joined his friend’s company, Speak Easy Project. In 2010, they produced their first web-video; in 2013, their first documentary, which was also directed by Balázs. Currently resides in Berlin, Germany.

    Filmography:

    Crossroads (2014)
    Leave/Stay: London (2014)
    Leave/Stay: New York  (2013)

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  • Pavel Abrahám

    Pavel Abrahám (1978) is a graduate of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. He is best known for his full-length debut Czech RAPublic (2008), which was featured at several international film festivals and awarded a number of prizes – the prize for the best Czech documentary of the year at the 2009 Finále Plzeň among others.

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  • Pal Czirjak

    Independent researcher, freelance journalist and photographer. He had been editor-in-chief of Metropolis (Hungarian quarterly of film theory and film history) from 2009 to 2013, and editor since 2005. He is currently Ph.D. student (Film, Media and Cultural Studies, ELTE, Budapest) after graduating in Film Theory and Film History, MA and in Aesthetics, MA at the same university. Between 2007 and 2009 he was an associate researcher for Archive of Studio Béla Balázs. He has been a visiting lecturer at University of Szeged (2008–), and at Budapest University of Technology (2012–). His articles, essays, book reviews and translation have appeared since 2004 in edited volumes, and periodicals.

    His research interests include questions and methods of film analysis, Hungarian documentaries, Hungarian cinema in the socialist era, as well as film and architecture.

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