Cinema Club
The City Cultural Center of Piešťany is currently an important cultural institution whose mission is to organize cultural and educational activities for all ages. In the building on the street of A. Dubcek, the so-called Small stage, there are classrooms in which they are held, lectures, discussion forums and likewhise. Cinematik makes advantage of its cinema with place for 150 visitors.
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Friday 13. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubWhat More Said
Ba čo viac, povedané
SK, 2024, 23 min.; sk
Director: Martin Daško
The short documentary film What More Said tells the story of the almost 60-year-old shepherd Pavel Hadač. A creative artist who has gone through various projects in his life, from acting to carving, painting, and architecture. Among his greatest works…
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Sunday 15. 09. 20:00
Cinema ClubPoppy Field
Câmp de maci
RO, 2020, 81 min.; ro, en, fr, ar / en sub / sk tit
Director: Eugen Jebeleanu
Cristi, a young gendarme from Bucharest, keeps his homosexuality secret, since it is a stigma among military ranks. He is in a long-term relationship with Hadi, who lives in another city. The same day Hadi comes to visit him for…
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Sunday 15. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubThe Garden Cadences
The Garden Cadences
DE, 2024, 62 min.; de, en, fi, sr / en sub / sk tit
Director: Dane Komljen
Jone is ready to fly. She finds herself at the beginning of something new, but before she moves on, there needs to be a closure. Jone is one of Mollies, the queer feminist collective that had been living for a…
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Sunday 15. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubThe Bells Toll for the Barefooted
Zvony pre bosých
CS, 1965, 96 min.; sk, de / sk tit / en sub
Director: Stanislav Barabáš
The last winter of World War II. Down in the valley peace already reigns, up in the mountains the fight for life still rages. Two partisans, Ondrej and Stašek, capture a young German soldier, Hans. They take him to headquarters,…
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Tuesday 10. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubAferim!
Aferim!
RO/BG/CZ/FR, 2015, 108 min.; ro, tr, rom / cz tit
Director: Radu Jude
Eastern Europe, 1835. Two men on horses cross a barren landscape in the middle of Wallachia. Gendarme Costandin and his son. They are searching for a gypsy slave who has run away from his nobleman master and is suspected of…
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Tuesday 10. 09. 20:00
Cinema ClubThe Dead Nation
Țara moartă
RO, 2017, 83 min.; ro / en sub / sk tit
Director: Radu Jude
A documentary essay showing a stunning collection of photographs from a Romanian small town in the 1930s and 1940s. The soundtrack, composed mostly from excerpts taken from the diary of a Jewish doctor from the same era, shows what the…
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Tuesday 10. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubYou Burn Me
Tú me abrasas
ES/AR, 2024, 64 min.; es / en sub / sk tit
Director: Matías Piñeiro
You Burn Me is an adaptation of “Sea Foam”, a chapter of Cesare Pavese’s 1947 book Dialoghi con Leucò. By the sea, the ancient Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomart are talking of love and death. Sappho is supposed…
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Wednesday 11. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubIntregalde
Întregalde
RO, 2021, 104 min.; ro / en sub / sk tit
Director: Radu Muntean
Three humanitarian workers are delivering aid to the remotest parts of the country. It is winter, the end of the year. In the forest, they meet a lonely, confused old man. He says he has to get to the sawmill…
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Wednesday 11. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubMen of Deeds
Oameni de treaba
RO/BG, 2022, 105 min.; ro, ua / en sub / sk tit
Director: Paul Negoescu
Ilie, a small-town police chief, wants to build a modest comfortable life for himself, but ends up making the wrong choices. Middle-aged and alienated, he feels the need to be a part of something—to build an orchard, even a home.
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Wednesday 11. 09. 20:00
Cinema ClubSmiling Georgia
Gimiliani Sakartvelo
GE/DE, 2023, 62 min.; ka / en sub / sk tit
Director: Luka Beradze
What are the costs of the half-truths that politicians tell? In 2012, in the race for reelection, Georgia’s governing party was promising subsidized dental care to the country’s least well off. Across the land, state medical practitioners began removing rotten…
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Thursday 12. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubAquabelles from Prandorf
Akvabely z Prandorfa
SK, 2024, 80 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Palo Korec
When a person overcomes the fear of making a mistake, the fear of their own fear, they become free. This realization came to five women from the village of Devičany near Banská Štiavnica. They took an axe, cut a hole…
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Thursday 12. 09. 20:00
Cinema ClubThe Undergrowth
La hojarasca
ES, 2024, 72 min.; es / en sub / sk tit
Director: Macu Machín
After twenty years, Elsa and her younger sister Maura return to the house where they were raised. Carmen, the third sister, lives there alone and maintains the family’s meager estates. Maura’s degenerative disease continues unabated, while Elsa and Carmen try…
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Thursday 12. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubMammalia
Mammalia
RO/PL/DE, 2023, 88 min.; ro, de / en sub / sk tit
Director: Sebastian Mihailescu
Camil is a 39-year-old man who is slowly losing his grip on the women in his life. At work he is belittled and reprimanded by female co-workers and superiors, and his girlfriend Andreea has joined a mysterious fertility cult, causing…
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Friday 13. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubCrossroads of Jozef Cabelka
Križovatka Jozefa Čabelku
SK, 2024, 16 min.; sk
Director: Martin Polerecký
The documentary film Crossroads of Jozef Čabelka explores themes of envy, perseverance, and determination, and in its own way, it delves into the essence of living for the main protagonist. The film tells the story of the academic, micrometallurgist, and…
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Friday 13. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubBetween Two Worlds
Medzi dvoma svetmi
SK, 2024, 40 min.; sk
Director: Daniela Anna Korimová
The intimate reflection of the film’s author attempts to show the emotions children go through during their parents’ divorces and how it affects them into adulthood. She compares her innocent past with her conflicted present as she films with her…
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Friday 13. 09. 20:00
Cinema ClubDirect Action
Direct Action
FR/DE, 2024, 216 min.; fr, ar / en sub / sk tit
Director: Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell
Taking its title from the tactical protest strategy of the same name—“an action that seeks to achieve an end directly and by the most effective means”—, Direct Action documents the everyday lives of one of the most high-profile militant activist…
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Friday 13. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubThe Exit of the Trains
Ieşirea trenurilor din gară
RO, 2020, 175 min.; ro / en sub / sk tit
Director: Radu Jude, Adrian Cioflâncă
On June 29, 1941, the Jewish residents of the city of Iasi were rounded up and beaten. Shops and homes were looted. Most of the men were shot or crowded onto trains, where they later died of asphyxiation. While Germans…
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Saturday 14. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubA Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places
Dom Strom
SK/CZ, 2023, 20 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Katarína Gramatová
12-year-old Adam, a Romani kid with grown-up responsibilities, lives in the so-called Slovak “hungry valley”, trying to earn cash for energy drinks by chopping trees with his older brother. Adam looks up to his brother for his tree-sawing skills, despite…
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Saturday 14. 09. 11:00
Cinema ClubHoria
Horia
RO/BG/RS, 2023, 108 min.; ro / en sub / sk tit
Director: Ana Maria Comanescu
Restless teenager Horia takes his father’s old motorbike on a cross-country road trip to meet his love. Thirteen-year-old sassy Stela joins in and an unlikely friendship develops. Horia embarks on a journey to find his free spirit and himself. For…
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Saturday 14. 09. 20:00
Cinema ClubBetween Revolutions
Intre revolutii
RO/HR/QA/IR, 2023, 69 min.; ro, fa / en sub / sk tit
Director: Vlad Petri
In 1970s Bucharest, Zahra and Maria form a deep friendship while studying at university. As political turmoil simmers in Iran, Zahra is forced to return home, leaving Maria behind. Over the next decade, they maintain their connection through a series…
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Saturday 14. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubThe Most Beautiful Corner in the World
Najkrajší kút v šírom svete
SK, 2022, 25 min.; sk, ua / en sub
Director: Robo Mihály
The documentary essay sets the mirror of contemporary Slovak society by pointing out the inability to reflect language and history, which has led to the threat of new authoritarianism. In the film, we watch a young Ukrainian woman who is…
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Saturday 14. 09. 17:00
Cinema ClubOasis
Oasis
CL, 2024, 80 min.; es / en sub / sk tit
Director: Tamara Uribe, Felipe Morgado
A social uprising shakes Chile, the neoliberal oasis of Latin America. Millions of people take to the streets to protest against a historically unequal system and to raise their voices for social rights, environmental justice and respect for human rights.
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Saturday 14. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubThe Whisper of Freedom
The Whisper of Freedom
SK, 2023, 16 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Anna Ahaliieva
The plot of the film takes place in the 80s of the last century in Czechoslovakia. The story shows the necessity of concealing the love between two women, which would have been unacceptable to society at that time. Certain circumstances…
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Saturday 14. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubSilo
Silo
SK, 2023, 10 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Imrich Kútik
Claire finds herself in the middle of a small farmstead surrounded by wheat fields. Against her will, she becomes a part of a closed community of women who are forced to work endlessly by apparitions of crows. Their job is…
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Saturday 14. 09. 14:00
Cinema ClubThis Peculiar Day
Tento divný deň
SK, 2023, 19 min.; sk / en sub
Director: Emília Ondriašová
Martin is an art curator who has it all—a niche gallery, a flat in a hip neighborhood, and a beautiful, successful wife. However, the monotony of everyday life bores him. So, he fills the hole dug by the lack of…
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Sunday 15. 09. 11:00
Cinema ClubWishing on a Star (2/2)
Wishing on a Star
IT/SK/CZ/AT/HR, 2024, 90 min.; it, fur / sk tit
Director: Peter Kerekes
According to surveys, only 7 % of the world’s population admits to believing in astrology. Yet, each of us has likely been caught studying our horoscope at least once. Luciana de Leoni d’Asparedo is an expert in active astrology. She…