By Jack Hayes
The Czech and Slovak Movie Festival of Australia (CaSFFA) will return to the Melbourne screens with the concept for 2021 “Únik”, which translates to “escapism”.
Now in its nineth iteration, the CaSFFA will be screened as an on-line supplying by way of ACMI Cinema 3 and be readily available 24 hrs a working day from Oct 7 to 16 Australia-broad, permitting supporters throughout the land the chance to escape as a result of film.
According to CaSFFA inventive director, Eleanor Colla, the pageant chose the topic “Únik” to reflect its audience’s “desire to have a crack or escape, even momentarily, from difficult limits above the previous two decades.”
“This year’s choice offers this prospect by means of some truly charming and visually breathtaking movies,” Ms Colla claimed.
Right after a massively successful 2020 festival which was held on the web and as a lowered offering at Coburg Push-In cinema, CaSFFA president, Marcel Mihulka and his team made a decision to maintain the competition adaptable once more in 2021.
“As Melburnians and Canberrans get vaccinated, diligently have on masks and socially distance, the metropolitan areas are doing all they can to open up and this is giving optimism,” Mr Mihulka mentioned.
“All cinemas will quickly re-open up and we are on the lookout ahead to obtaining that cinema expertise once again but for those people that are not able to get to the cinema, or aren’t rather cozy remaining in general public still our online supplying makes certain everyone can have the chance to escape by means of film.”
The 2021 on the internet method features five aspect movies, with none capturing this year’s concept superior than FREM (2019), a Viera Cakanyova shot movie in Antarctica captured whilst keeping a movie diary which would become White on White / Biela Na Bielej, 2020.
FREM provides a exclusive perspective of Antarctica. A collage of overhead shots from a drone, extraordinary close-ups, and skittish images, a movie audiences may possibly come across both comforting and confronting.
Also incorporated in the pageant line-up is Athanor: The Alchemical Furnace by Danhel and Adam Olha on the get the job done and lifetime of Jan Svankmajer: filmed more than a number of many years, and utilising many Svankmajer-en methods itself, the documentary normally takes viewers into the past and current existence of a learn of cinema.
Rounding out the plan festival goers will find Gump a poignant reflection on existence as a result of the eyes of a pet dog travelling by means of daily life with a cast which include performing greats Bolek Polívka, Eva Holubova, and Ivan Trojan and archival films like The Ear / Ucho (1970), and Pacho, the Thief of Hybe / Pacho, hybsky zbojník (1976).