Slovak Season (SS)

Despite that 2010 has not been a particularly fruitful year for new feature-length films in Slovak cinemas, the 18th annual Art Film Fest will not leave out the section focusing on domestic production: Slovak Season. The section mostly consists of brand new releases – for example a sneak preview of Martin Šulík's 25 ze šedesátých aneb Československá nová vlna (25 Out of Sixty or The Czechoslovak New Wave) and a few other titles which will be finished in the coming days.

The section will also feature Slovakia’s first public screening of Dariusz Jablonski’s War Games, whose first private screening was given on 11.12.2008 at the CIA headquarters for its agents, and which was dropped from last year’s Art Film Fest at the last minute, because it opened Amsterdam’s prestigious IDFA documentary film festival. The section is filled out by animated, documentary and fiction films produced by Bratislava's Academy of Performing Arts, because in June 2010, exactly ten years will have passed since the establishment of the Academy’s Faculty of Film and Television, and we will commemorate this anniversary with the best work the Faculty has produced to date. And as a special bonus, this year’s section will present a 20th-anniversary screening of Dušan Trančík's When the Stars Were Red, the last Slovak film to appear in each of the "Big Three" film festivals’ main competitions.

Miro Ulman, section coordina