Our Producer on the Move this year is Katarína Tomková, whose credits include Servants (dir. Ivan Ostrochovský; Berlinale 2020), Nina (dir. Juraj Lehotský, KVIFF 2017) or upcoming Applause (dir. Juraj Lehotský).
Caravan, an upcoming feature by Zuzana Kirchnerová (1st Prize Cinéfondation 2009), co-produced by Jakub Viktorín of Nutprodukcia, was selected for L’Atelier.
The new film by Václav Kadrnka (Crystal Globe at KVIFF 2017) Saving One Who Was Dead, co-produced by Katarína Krnáčová of Silverart, will be presented at HAF Goes to Cannes.
Upcoming short film Love, Dad by Czech animator Diana Cam Van Nguyen, co-produced once again by Jakub Viktorín and Nutprodukcia, will be presented at Focus WiP at Short Film Corner.
MARKET SCREENINGS
My Sunny Maad
CZ, FR, SK / 2021 / 85 min
Director: Michaela Pavlátová
Producers: Petr Oukropec (CZ), Kateřina Černá (CZ), Peter Badač (SK), Ron Dyens (FR)
Production: Negativ (CZ)
Co-Production: Sacrebleu Productions (FR), BFILM (SK), Alkay Animation (CZ), Czech Television (CZ), Gao Shan Pictures (FR), Innervision (FR)
WORLD SALES & FESTIVALS
Totem Films - Laure Parleani
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SCREENINGS
8 July | 14:15 | Olympia 5
9 July | 14:15 | Olympia 5 Online
Even Mice Belong in Heaven
CZ, FR, PL, SK / 2021 / 87 min
Directors: Denisa Grimmová, Jan Bubeníček
Producers: Vladimír Lhoták (CZ), Alexandre Charlet (FR), Grzegorz Wacławek (PL), Marek Jeníček (CZ), Tomáš Janísek (SK)
Production: Fresh Films (CZ), Les Films du Cygne (FR)
Co-production: Animoon (PL), CinemArt SK (SK), Czech Television (CZ), Barrandov Studio (CZ), Auvergne Rhône Alpes Cinema (FR), DD Production (CZ), EC1 Łódż (PL)
INTERNATIONAL SALES
Charades - Jean-Félix Dealberto
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www.charades.eu
FESTIVALS
Charades - Nicolas Rebeschini
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SCREENINGS
10 July | 16:00 | Arcades 3
11 July | 16:00 | Arcades 3 Online
13 July | 16:30 | Palais I
14 July | 16:30 | Palais I Online
PRODUCER ON THE MOVE
After working in film journalism, film production, and international film promotion since 2004, Katarína Tomková launched her own production company kaleidoscope in 2015. She has since (co-)produced a number of acclaimed documentaries as well as Ivan Ostrochovský's drama Servants which premiered in Encounters at the 2020 Berlinale. Katarína is currently in post-production on Peter Kerekes' feature 107 Mothers and Juraj Lehotský's third feature Applause.
READ THE INTERVIEW WITH KATARÍNA TOMKOVÁ
Caravan
CZ, SK, IT, upcoming, 100 min., fiction
Director: Zuzana Kirchnerová
Ester (40) is a single-mother who has just one small dream: to spend a two-week vacation with old times friends in Italy without her mentally disabled son David (12). Things take a different turn. She has no other option than to take her son with her. Ester’s Italian friends are trying their best, but it’s tough for them to deal with David’s unpredictable behavior. They decide it would be better if Ester and her son spend the rest of their vacation in a caravan parked in the garden. For Ester, this is the final straw. The last thing she wanted was to spend her once-in-a-lifetime holiday feeling like a pain in the neck to her friends. When nighttime comes, she starts the caravan and takes off. She does not know where they are going or how long they will stay there. On their transformative journey across Italy, Ester realizes she can be more than just the mother of a son with disabilities and that they can both live differently.
Production: nutprodukcia (SK), Masterfilm (SK), Tempesta (IT)
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Saving One Who Was Dead
CZ, SK, 2021, 88 min., fiction
Director: Václav Kadrnka
When the Father falls into a coma, the Mother and the Son must overcome fear to find the right words to bring him back.
Production: Sirius Films (CZ), Silverart (SK), Czech Television (CZ), Radio and Television Slovakia (SK), Bocalupo Films (FR), Synergia Film (CZ)
Pitch: July 10 @ 16:30 (part of HAF Goes to Cannes)
WORLD PREMIERE: KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / CRYSTAL GLOBE COMPETITION
READ THE INTERVIEW WITH KATARÍNA KRNÁČOVÁ, A SLOVAK CO-PRODUCER OF THE FILM
CZ, SK, 2021, 12 min., animation
Director: Diana Cam Van Nguyen
A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. Through the film, Diana, the author rediscovers how the connection between herself and her dad fell silent. Dad used to write to her letters of love from prison. Now, 15 years later, Diana answers them. She still blames him for the family ́s break-up but also tries to understand.
Production: 13ka (CZ), nutprodukcia (SK), The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (CZ)
Pitch: July 14 @ 10:00 (part of Short Film Corner | Rendez-vous Industry – Focus WiP)
WORLD PREMIERE: LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL / PARDI DI DOMANI COMPETITION
Our brand new catalogue
New & Upcoming Slovak Films – Cannes Edition 2021, published just before Cannes 2021, includes upcoming Slovak films that should be completed withing next 12 months.
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The latest edition of the catalogue
Slovak Films 2020, published in December 2020, includes films produced in 2020 as well as the Slovak Film Guide that provides up-to-date information about audiovisual industry in the country.
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How Slovak film did in 2020 in more than numbers, dates and emails, here comes a special English edition of the Slovak monthly
Film.sk – Cannes Edition 2021
made especially for you.
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Although Czech & Slovak pavilion won't be present at the Marché du Film’s Village International this year you can still meet the representatives of the Slovak Film Institute and Slovak Film Commission.
SLOVAK FILM INSTITUTE
Rastislav Steranka | Director, National Cinematographic Centre | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Kristína Aschenbrennerová | Film Promotion – Fiction Films | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SLOVAK FILM COMMISSION
Zuzana Bieliková | Film Commissioner | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Presentation of Slovak cinema and audiovisual industry at the Marché du Film is organized by: Slovak Film Institute, with financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic,
and Slovak Film Commission, organizational unit of Slovak Audiovisual Fund.
