The 3rd Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia Melbourne 2015

Termín:	16.09.2015 - 25.09.2015
Téma:	PODUJATIA NAŠICH KRAJANOV
Miesto konania:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, (Zahraničie - Európa/Svet) Ubytovanie · Počasie · Cestovné poriadky
Web:	casffa.com.au

Popis

The 3rd Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia,
proudly brought to you by Richmond Škoda.

16 – 25 September 2015
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Federation Square and the Melbourne Town Hall

For full event & film schedule and tickets visit www.casffa.com.au

Some of the films illuminating the 3rd CaSFFA include:

Opening Night film: a terrific, blackly comic social drama The Snake Brothers (Kobry a Užovky)
Karel Zeman retrospective including Journey to the Beginning of Time (Cesta do pravěka), A Jester’s Tale (Bláznova kronika), An Invention for Destruction (Vynález zkázy) and The Outrageous Baron Munchausen (Baron Prášil)
A compelling drama inspired by real events Fair Play
Kolya (Kolja) director Jan Svěrák's fairy tale and the most attended film in Czech cinemas in 2014 - Three Brothers (Tři bratři)
When The Cat Comes (Až přijde kocour) - winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1963
38 - the Slovak box-office-smashing documentary on recently deceased ice hockey legend Pavol Demitra
Closing Night film: The Magic Voice of a Rebel (Magický hlas rebelky) - a superb documentary on Marta Kubišová, an icon of the Prague Spring and the most popular singer in Czechoslovakia in the mid-late 1960s

Attendees of Opening & Closing Night events will enjoy the hospitality CaSFFA is famous for:

Fee cocktail upon arrival in the cinema
Opening Night afterparty with Orkeztra Glasso Bashalde live performance
Closing Night afterparty with Vardos live performance including a tribute to Marta Kubišova

FREE EVENTS

Concert: Thursday 24 September 7pm Melbourne Town Hall
Czech organist Pavel Kohout performing works by Josef Klička and Antonín Dvořák, followed by his own live score to a wonderful silent film The Cathedral Builder (Stavitel chrámu)
Exhibition: Spirit of Adventure: ACMI Cafe and Bar, balcony spaces and the Australian Mediatheque