The Czech and Slovak Film Days were officially opened last night at the Yugoslav Film Archive with a screening of the film Andy Warhol – American Dream
The audience will have the opportunity to see some of the most interesting contemporary works from Czech and Slovak cinema until Sunday, October 19.
The audience was addressed by the Ambassador of the Czech Republic, Jan Bondy, and the Ambassador of Slovakia, Michal Pavuk. A special moment of the evening was the speech delivered by producer Peter Poch, which encapsulated the spirit of the program: the courage to speak what is new while understanding what is old.
Today’s program features the film We Got What We Wanted, described as a family tragicomedy, as well as The Murder, set during a traditional pig slaughter in the Czech Republic.
Saturday’s screening is intended for the whole family, with the puppet-animated film Sweet Life, while the evening slot will feature Journey to the Impossible, a film about Slovak pilot, politician, and diplomat Milan Rastislav Štefánik.
The festival will close on Sunday with The Gardener’s Year, inspired by the eponymous literary work by the renowned Czech writer Karel Čapek, which balances between the bizarre, the absurd, and the tragicomic.
