Focus Section presents Slovakia | TIFF

Focus Section presents Slovakia

14.05.2013 12:09
Focus Slovakia, comprising seven titles, is presented in partnership with the Slovak Film Institute and with the support of the Slovakian Ministry of Culture.

Two of the films are made by the same director, Mátyás Prikler: Fine, Thanks, an intimate portrait of an unraveling family and Dancing on Broken Glass, a life portrait made of dance scenes. The Dancing on Broken Glass special screening is presented by JTI. My Dog Killer (by Mira Fornay), which premiered in Rotterdam, focuses on a skinhead, and New Life of Family Album (by Adam Ol'ha), selected in Karlovy Vary, is the director's attempt at finding out the reasons behind his parents' separation, via old photographs, films and testimonies.

This section also encompass two classics of Czechoslovakian cinema: The Sun in a Net (by Stefan Uher, 1963) and Birds, Orphans and Fools (by Juraj Jakubisko, 1969), the latter being banned by the communist regime until 1990. The documentary Bells of Happiness (by Jana Bučka, Marek Šulík) tells the story of two Roma people, Mariena and his cousin Roman, who make a DVD of themselves performing a song by their favorite artists.