More than seventy films are offered by the 31st Febiofest, which will be held in Bratislava from March 13 to 19. After Easter, the selection from the program will be transferred to film clubs throughout Slovakia. The artistic director of Febiofest Ondrej Starinský prepared program tips for Denník N, which he thinks are worth seeing.
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Our selection this year is varied in terms of genre and species. In addition to the award-winning films of the current festival season and nominees for the Oscar or the Czech Lion, you can also see classics – whether Czecho-Slovak (introduction Markéta Lazarová a Meek to the centenaries of their directors František Vláčil and Stanislav Barabáš), or world (American Beauty, Naked Lunch).
In the festival program we also have a new section of genre and weird films called Midnight Temptation. Its compiler, director and animator Andrej Kolenčík chose the theme “the end of the world” according to which he selected films such as Robocop, They Live, Miracle Mile or today a prophetic dystopian comedy Idiokracy.
Two screenings organized in cooperation with Prague’s Festival of Die-hard Viewers will be interactive – on Friday evening, bingo will be played and champagne will be drunk, on Saturday there will be unadulterated VHS simultaneous dubbing live instead of subtitles.
Zone of Interest
Rudolf, Hedwiga and their four children live in a large house with a beautiful, well-kept garden. They celebrate dinner together every day, enjoy weekend trips to the water and walks with friends. However, disturbing sounds and the occasional desperate cry of someone are heard from outside the walls of their home. Rudolf Höss is the commander of the concentration camp in Auschwitz.
British director Jonathan Glazer made another feature film after thirteen years. After the original sci-fi adaptation Under the skin (2013) starring Scarlett Johansson decided to deal with the subject of the Holocaust. At the same time, it is an adaptation of a literary original – and again, relatively loose. The director was particularly interested
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