One of Art Film Fest’s most consistently popular components is the annual International Competition of Short Films. At the festival’s nineteenth edition, held from June 17 to 25 in Tren\u010dianske Teplice and Tren\u010d\u00edn, the section will feature an abundant assortment of fiction, documentary, experimental and animated films from professional and film-school studios around the world. <\/p>\n
The selection of forty-four short films will include a number of pictures screened and awarded at prestigious international film festivals. <\/p>\n
The work of a third-year student known as "Aramisova" from the Prague Academy of Performing Arts’ Film and TV School, "Cagey Tigers" is arriving straight from Cannes’ young-talent-focused Cin\u00e9fondation competition.
It tells the story of two best friends who fall in love with the same man. Will they remain faithful to their feelings, or put their friendship first? <\/p>\n
This year’s section will also include the world premiere of "The Last Bus" (Posledn\u00fd autobus) from Slovak filmmakers Martin Snopek and Ivana Lau\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1. Snopek, known for his successful "Pik a Nik", and Lau\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1, creator of the award-winning "Cheers!" (Nazdrav\u00ed\u010dko!), have combined their talents in this tale of woodland animals fleeing to safety from bloodthirsty hunters. <\/p>\n
The section’s array of young Slovak filmmakers will continue with Peter Budinsk\u00fd’s "tWINs", an animated film depicting two conjoined twins who fight both in the ring and out. Together they struggle through their private and social lives, but each from a different perspective. <\/p>\n
Award winners from this year’s Berlinale will also be represented. <\/p>\n
The Chilean picture "The Shower" (La Ducha) looks at two girlfriends going their separate ways. Elisa has found a job abroad, and Manuela, who has lived with her for five years, decides that she isn\u2019t coming with. After all, who will look after the cat? Set in a the confines of a small bathroom, the movements of their naked bodies, their touches, gestures, looks in the mirror, and the sound of the running shower uncover the sadness of this final farewell. <\/p>\n
"The Unliving" (\u00c5terf\u00f6delsen), another Berlin laureate, is a Swedish film set in the midst of a thirty-year zombie epidemic. Coldly, mercilessly, and with a pragmatism that would be the envy of any other mammal, the humans lobotomize them and use what\u2019s left as a cheap labour source. This warped, bloody and visually fascinating picture received the Berlinale’s nomination for an award from the European Film Academy. <\/p>\n
Following his victory at last year\u2019s Art Film Fest, English director Paul Wright will present his latest creation \u201cUntil the River Runs Red\u201d, freshly bestowed with the prestigious British BAFTA award. The film’s sixteen-year-old Chloe is God\u2019s only daughter, at least according to her parents, who bring her from place to place across remote, deserted expanses in search of the mystical \u201cRed River\u201d. <\/p>\n
Art Film Fest 2011 \u2013 the 19th Tren\u010dianske Teplice\/Tren\u010d\u00edn International Film Festival is made possible by the financial support of the Audiovisual Fund.<\/p>\n
Organizers:<\/b> ART FILM, n.o., FORZA, a.s. <\/p>\n
Co-organizers:<\/b> The Town of Tren\u010dianske Teplice, Tren\u010dianske Teplice Health Spa<\/p>\n
General Sponsors:<\/b> Omnia Holding SE, AquaCity Poprad<\/p>\n
Main Sponsors:<\/b> Tatra banka, Slovnaft, VUJE, OHL \u017dS<\/p>\n
Official Transport Provider:<\/b> Lancia <\/p>\n
Logistics Sponsor:<\/b> DHL <\/p>\n
Free student cinepasses provided by:<\/b> Prv\u00e1 stavebn\u00e1 sporite\u013e\u0148a (First Housing-Construction Savings Bank)<\/p>\n
Sponsors:<\/b> TIPOS, Ernst & Young, AVI studio, Penzi\u00f3n Baske, Cinemax, Santovka<\/p>\n
Official Suppliers:<\/b> Pilsner Urquell, HUBERT J.E., Hotel Pax \u2013 the festival spa hotel, A Briliant, Esterle&Esterle, MF team, LampART, Lenovo, Stredn\u00e1 odborn\u00e1 \u0161kola polygrafick\u00e1 (Vocational School of Printing)<\/p>\n
Main Media Sponsors:<\/b> Slovensk\u00e1 telev\u00edzia, telev\u00edzia JOJ, R\u00e1dio FM, Pravda, <\/p>\n
Media Sponsors:<\/b> Central Europe Television, Kino CS, Muzika CS, Doku CS, R\u00e1dio Europa 2, R\u00e1dio Hit FM, .t\u00fd\u017ede\u0148, Eurotelev\u00edzia, Pardon, OK!, Kine\u010dko, Kam do mesta, Focus, Boomerang Media, SITA, moviemania.sk, BlueSky, Telev\u00edzia Tren\u010dianske Teplice, euroAWK, Willmark<\/p>\n
Partners:<\/b> The City of Tren\u010d\u00edn, the Tren\u010d\u00edn Self-governing Region, the Embassy of Israel in Slovakia, the European Commission Representation in Slovakia, the Embassy of the USA in Bratislava, the Office of the Embassy of Sweden in Bratislava, Sodec Quebec, the Slovak Film Institute, Cinecitta, the Italian Cultural Institute in Bratislava, Omnia, RONA, Celtima SK, jazykovepobyty.sk, Hotel Fl\u00f3ra, versity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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