Really Terrorists, Even Though Velvet? The three stories of the full-length documentary Velvet Terrorists are connected only by the thin thread of conviction pursuant to the same section 93 on terrorism but, otherwise, these three men (youngsters at the time of their conviction) and their fates could not differ more. Hence, in effect, these are […]
There Haven’t Been So Many Short Films in Cinemas in Years Slovak filmmaker, Andrej Kolenčik, is present at this year’s Berlinale Talents. This young graduate of the Academy of Music and Performing Arts already had two films in Slovak cinemas – both shorts. In 2013, an interesting distribution experiment occurred in which two blocks of […]
Distribution Lives of Short Films Short films – “shorts” – have their own distribution lives; that is, if they were not prematurely buried by those who contributed to their making or who hold the rights to the films. There are increasingly more and more paths leading shorts to their audiences. So many that it seems […]
What One Candidate Is Capable of Doing The year 2013 again showed what one hit is capable of doing. Jonáš Karásek’s debut, The Candidate (Kandidát), was only premièred in October; nevertheless, in just a few weeks, with 80,234 viewers it achieved seventh rank in the list of top domestic films over the era of independent Slovakia […]
