The 5-day event is held in DENDY Newtown from 30th March. The festival features an eclectic mix of recent releases as well as some classic cult films from National Film Archives of both countries. The program includes dramas, thrillers, romances, comedies, documentaries and animations as well as shorts.
9th Sydney Czech and Slovak Film Festival brings new film releases as well as treasures from the golden era of Czech and Slovak cinematography to Dendy Cinema in Newtown. All films are with English subtitles.
Many of the films will be screened as Australian Premiere. One of them is Ivan Ostrochovsky‘s acclaimed, award- winning Servants/Služobníci, a black and white probe into the paranoid, late socialist environment of 1980s Czechoslovakia and its uneasy relationship between Catholic Church and the communist regime.
The film will open the festival at DENDY Newtown on 30th March.
Another of the highlights this year is shocking Caught in the Net: an alarming documentary about online sexual predators: Three actresses, three children’s rooms, 10 days and 2,458 sexual predators. An experiment that shines an urgent light on the taboo subject of the abuse of children on the internet.
Not to be missed is also children animation Even mice belong in heaven, a film classic the Ear by K. Kachyna
