Hot new releases from the recent Cannes Film Festival, including the this year\u2019s Palme d\u2019Or winner and an array of other must-see films, along with a range of red-carpet guests \u00ad\u2013 all this awaits at the 26th Art Film Fest in Ko\u0161ice, starting in just 10 days with a programme full of attractions.<\/p>\n
Art Film Fest\u2019s official selection features the grand-prize winner of the world\u2019s most significant festival: Japanese film Shoplifters<\/strong> (Manbiki kazoku, 2018) from director Hirokazu Koreeda, courtesy of distribution company Film Europe (in the section Be2Can Starter<\/strong>).<\/p>\n The International Competition of Feature Films <\/strong>will include One Day <\/strong>(Egy nap, 2018), which director Zs\u00f3fia Szil\u00e1gyi has described as \u201ca matrimonial thriller\u201d. The film earned her Cannes\u2019s FIPRESCI Award for best debut. Premiered at the world\u2019s most prestigious film festival, AFF competition film The Load<\/strong> (Teret, 2018), from director Ognjen Glavoni\u0107, takes viewers on a lorry ride from Kosovo to Belgrade during the bombings of 1999.<\/p>\n Audiences will travel further into the past with The Summer<\/strong> (2018), a nostalgic remembrance of 1980s Leningrad. The film\u2019s director, Kiril Serebrenikov, wasn\u2019t able to attend its premiere in France, as he has been under house arrest since the spring. Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski personally attended Cannes, coming away with the Best Director award. His romance Cold War<\/strong> (Zimna wojna, 2018) tells a passionate love story over the backdrop of the events of the 50s and 60s in Poland and France. Both titles will be screened in the Art Film Fest section European Corner<\/strong>, as will the fiction film from documentarian Sergei Loznitsa \u2013 Donbass<\/strong> (2018). This portrayal of the hybrid war in Ukraine doesn\u2019t shy away from black humour and, like Loznitsa\u2019s previous films, has been stirring up controversy from its very premiere. The film earned Loznitsa the Directing Prize in Cannes\u2019s Un Certain Regard competition.<\/p>\n Director Joe Penna\u2019s Arctic<\/strong> (2018) was named by Variety magazine as one of the best films screened at Cannes this year. Actor Mads Mikkelsen\u2019s death-defying journey across the frozen wastes is being presented as part of Art Film Fest\u2019s section Around the World<\/strong>. The section will also include the latest film from director Spike Lee: BlacKkKlansman <\/strong>(2018), the true story of an African-American police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. Audiences at Cannes gave it an eight-minute standing ovation; the jury gave it the Grand Prix. Among the films in AFF’s Amphitheatre<\/strong> section will be biographical documentary Whitney <\/strong>(2018), where director Kevin Macdonald draws upon exclusive confessions from dozens of people close to singer Whitney Houston over the course of her tumultuous life. Following the film\u2019s Cannes premiere, Art Film Fest audiences will see and hear truths and myths about the legendary artist on a larger-than-life screen at the Ko\u0161ice Amphitheatre.<\/p>\n Over the festival’s nine days, Art Film Fest will host a pantheon of cinematic luminaries from the world over, and many of them won’t leave Ko\u0161ice empty-handed. The festival\u2019s Actor’s Mission Award<\/strong> honours performers for their extraordinary contributions to the art of acting. At the 26th edition, the award will go to two actresses \u2013 one from Slovakia, the other from the Czech Republic. The first will be Zuzana Maur\u00e9ry<\/strong>, multiple winner of Slovakia\u2019s Sun in a Net Awards and beloved film, television and theatre actress, whose career has extended beyond the borders of her home country.<\/p>\n The second, Ivana Ch\u00fdlkov\u00e1<\/strong>, is among our western neighbour\u2019s most sought-after film stars, holder of a Czech Lion and three-time winner of the T\u00fdT\u00fd audience-choice prize for most popular television actress. Aside from screens big and small, she is also active as a stage actress, and like Zuzana Maur\u00e9ry, she has even appeared in musicals.<\/p>\n Every year, Art Film Fest awards significant contributions to cinema with the Golden Camera<\/strong>. This year\u2019s laureates are two filmmakers, each with an unmistakable signature and international acclaim. Agnieszka Holland <\/strong>is a distinguished Polish film and television director and screenwriter who has managed to establish a career abroad as well. She has two Oscar nominations to her name, a Golden Globe for Europa Europa<\/strong> (1990), and 11 Czech Lions for her miniseries Burning Bush<\/strong> (2013). At last year\u2019s Berlinale, her film Spoor<\/strong> (Pokot, 2017) earned Holland a Silver Bear. Both feature-length films will be screened at this year\u2019s Art Film Fest.<\/p>\n Alexei German Jr.<\/strong> is the son of famous Soviet director Alexei German and the grandson of writer Yuri German. Captivating audiences with their narrative style and mesmerizing atmosphere, his films have received numerous awards at the world’s most prominent festivals. His Under Electric Clouds<\/strong> (Pod elektricheskimi oblakami, 2015) earned the filmmaker Berlin\u2019s Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution. This year\u2019s Berlinale saw the premiere of his latest film Dovlatov<\/strong> (2018), depicting the circumstances of artists whose talents were stifled by the Communist regime in the early 1970s. His efforts were once again rewarded with a Silver Bear.<\/p>\n This year’s Art Film Fest International Film Festival President’s Award<\/strong> will be granted to Fero Feni\u010d<\/strong>, a major figure of Czech and Slovak audiovisual culture. The creator of fiction and documentary auteur films and founder of the independent film and television production company Febio and the festival Febiofest will present his own section of films at the festival, entitled Fero Feni\u010d<\/strong> Special<\/strong>. The section will feature his own work, as well as pictures that have affected or surprised him as a viewer.<\/p>\n All in all, over 200 feature-length and short films, dozens of inspiring guests and a varied accompanying programme awaits at Art Film Fest in Ko\u0161ice, from 15 to 23 June 2018.<\/p>\n Organizers:<\/strong> ART FILM FEST s.r.o., FORZA, a.s. 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\nCo-organizers:<\/strong> The City of Ko\u0161ice, K13, the Ko\u0161ice Self-governing Region
\nThe festival is held under the auspices of Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic.
\nFinancial support: The Audiovisual Fund
\nThe festival is made possible by the financial support of the Ko\u0161ice Self-governing Region.<\/p>\n\n
\nOfficial festival automobile:<\/strong> MOTOR – CAR Ko\u0161ice
\nOfficial festival hotel:<\/strong> Hotel Yasmin
\nFestival logistics partner:<\/strong> DHL Express Slovakia
\nOfficial festival transport provider:<\/strong> Czech Airlines
\nSponsors:<\/strong> NOVIS Insurance Company, Slovak Business Agency, Keramon, Kino \u00dasmev, Taba\u010dka Kulturfabrik, \u017delezni\u010dn\u00e1 spolo\u010dnos\u0165 Slovensko, Aupark, Pan-European University, Film Europe Media Company, Omnia 2000, Omnia KLF, Omnia Holding SE, LGM, CPK Slovakia
\nOfficial suppliers:<\/strong> Barzzuz, Pilsner Urquell, NOV s.r.o. Zebra, Tuli, Lyvina, Grand Bari
\nMain media partners:<\/strong> TVJOJ, Kinos\u00e1la, JOJ Cinema, Nov\u00fd \u010cas, Aktuality.sk
\nMedia partners:<\/strong> \u010ceskoslovensko Channel, Festival Cinema Channel, R\u00e1dio Expres, R\u00e1dio Ko\u0161ice, SME, Korz\u00e1r, Forbes, Kam do mesta, webnoviny.sk, Bigmedia, Home media, Codes, Ko\u0161ice City Guide, Film.sk, www.kinecko.com
\nPartners:<\/strong> Autocont, Pension Horse Inn, Teledom, Carpano, KPK Reklama, Podnikate\u013eka Slovenska, Ko\u0161ice Region Tourism, Sli.do, Slovak Film Institute, Esterle&Esterle, Kinoservis, NeoDCP, EKKL, Mihyring – motoristick\u00fd are\u00e1l, ElevArt, Ministry of Transport of the Slovak Republic, Visit Ko\u0161ice, BigON, ECOHolding, GOSH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"