{"id":27189,"date":"2023-05-02T23:12:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T21:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artfilmfest.sk\/?p=27189"},"modified":"2023-06-18T20:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T18:13:12","slug":"36-short-films-from-all-over-the-world-will-compete-at-the-artfilmfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iffartfilm.com\/en\/blog\/people\/2023\/05\/36-short-films-from-all-over-the-world-will-compete-at-the-artfilmfest\/","title":{"rendered":"36 Short Films From All Over the World Will Compete at the Art Film Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The international short film competition<\/strong> is an integral part of the oldest and largest Slovak film festival, Art Film Fest<\/strong>, which will take place in Ko\u0161ice from June 16th to June 23rd this year. The organizers continue the proven form of selecting 36 films presented in six blocks. For the final selection, the greatest possible variety of creators and represented countries was very important to the compiler of the section, Martin Ka\u0148uch<\/strong>. This year, in addition to works from traditionally strong continents, short films from countries that have not been presented in our country (Somalia, Egypt) were included in the competition selection. Many future creators of European cinema start out in short films, it is always interesting to watch the seeds of their future film thinking and style.<\/p>\n

“It’s always decided by an idea and its cinematic thinking, wit and insight, somewhere it’s decided by a captivating acting performance, elsewhere by a provocative theme, animation technique or an experiment with the crossing of different film procedures,” <\/em>Martin Ka\u0148uch explains the criteria for his choice and adds: “I’m fascinated by the power, the concentration of film statement where everything works on a small surface. This year’s program illustrates this nicely, for example, with the American film I’m on Fire, about a teenager who became hostage to his parents’ increasingly toxic relationship. He endures the breakup of their marriage by hiding in his headphones with brilliantly chosen music from the end of the last century, he also records it for others, and handling the technology finally inspires him with an idea how to get out of it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The different time frame which the creators of the short films worked with is also interesting. The shortest one in the competition is 97 seconds, the longest ones are already close to the thirty-minute limit set by the statutes. Slovakia will be represented by the films Liquid Bread<\/strong> (orig. title: Chlieb n\u00e1\u0161 ka\u017edodenn\u00fd<\/strong>) by Alica Bedn\u00e1rikov\u00e1 and Strigov<\/strong> by Barbora Berez\u0148\u00e1kov\u00e1. Among the selected films is the film Ice Merchants<\/strong> by Portuguese director Jo\u00e3o Gonzalez, which has also been nominated for an Oscar in the category of short animated films.<\/p>\n

The jury that will decide on the results will be European. Slovakia is represented by Lea Pag\u00e1\u010dov\u00e1<\/strong>, who specializes in animated films at the Slovak Film Institute, the second judge is Radu Sticlea<\/strong>, originally from Romania, but living in Porto, Portugal, where he founded the Beast International Film Festival, focused on the cinematography of Central and Eastern Europe. The trio is completed by Elizaveta Maximov\u00e1<\/strong>, a Czech actress of Russian origin. She starred in the short student film directed by Michal Bla\u0161ko Atlant\u00edda, 2003 (2017) and also stars in his feature-length debut Obe\u0165 (2022), which recently won the Slnko v\u00a0sieti<\/em> award in the best film category.<\/p>\n\n\t\t