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MEDIA RELEASE
TWENTY FILMS MAKE THEIR AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AT 12TH CZECH AND SLOVAK FILM FESTIVAL OF AUSTRALIA OCT-NOV 2024 – MEL & ADL

MELBOURNE/NAARM, AUSTRALIA, September 10, 2024 –

The Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFFA) boasts a varied lineup for its 12th annual festival, featuring 25+ films and 20 Australian Premieres. Returning to Melbourne and Adelaide, this year’s edition is set to be the festival’s largest. Four works direct from Karlovy Vary (March to May, The Hungarian Dressmaker, The Gardener’s Year and Our Lovely Pig Slaughter), the Cannes official Weeds, and the Berlinale documentary I’m Not Everything I Want to Be are among this year’s standout titles.

Martin Pavol Repka’s debut, March to May, awarded a special mention at the Karlovy Vary, will open the festival on Oct 10th in Melbourne and November 1st in Adelaide. The comedy The Aristocrats will close the festival. Alongside the contemporary films in the program, which includes Locarno Film Festival winner Nightsiren, the children’s breakout features She – Hero, and Tony, Shelly and the Magical Light, CaSFFA also delivers two classics from the great Czech animator Jiří Barta, with a screening in both cities of his 1982 short film The Vanished World of Gloves alongside his 1986 masterpiece The Pied Piper, both films presented in their recent digital restorations.

“We present debut films by new filmmakers and the latest films by old CaSFFA favourites. We walk into the world of fiction, follow the path of non-fiction, and traverse the zones of animation and experimentation,” Alexander Back, the festival’s artistic director, says. “This year’s program is guided by the theme of Labyrinth,” Alexander adds. “Unlike a maze containing many forks and dead ends, a labyrinth has a single continuous path. Walking this mythic track, one slowly moves towards the centre of a thing. The winding labyrinth of our 12th year is not a path of one kind — we follow the dark and twisted trail, visit paths decorated with magic, ones built by love, and paths dizzyingly unbalanced. What draws these trails together is the sense that one can get both lost and found in Czech and Slovak cinema.”

This year, CaSFFA will also continue its enduring partnership with the Melbourne Cinémathèque, co-presenting Jiří Menzel: Making Comedies Is No Fun, a three-week retrospective on the inimitable New Wave director. The film will screen from September 25th to October 9th at ACMI.

CaSFFA’s list of sponsors and partners for 2024 includes Sense Creative Advertising, The Foreigner Brewing Company, Mr Moto, Becherovka, Vanguard Luxury Brands, Mattoni & Magnesia Mineral Water, Gourmet Czech, The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Canberra, Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Sydney, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Consulate General of the Slovak Republic in Sydney, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Burnside City Council, Czech Film Fund, Australian Cultural Fund, NFA, Classic Cinemas, Lido Cinemas, The Regal Theatre, Europa Europa Film Festival, Melbourne Cinémathèque and Vodafest.

You can connect with CaSFFA via their social channels Instagram and Facebook, or by subscribing to their newsletter. For more information about the festival, visit https://casffa.com.au/.

For CaSFFA press inquiries and interview requests, please contact Amelia Leonard at amelia@casffa.com.au.

CaSFFA Media Release 2024 (PDF).

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CALM IN THE CANOPY
2024, Michal Hogenauer
Lido Cinemas , Sat 12 Oct 5.00pm
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TONY, SHELLY AND THE MAGICAL LIGHT
2023, Filip Pošivač
Lido Cinemas , Sat 12 Oct 2.00pm
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Waltzing Matilda
2023, Petr Slavík
Lido Cinemas , Sat 12 Oct 7.30pm
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I’m Not Everything I Want to Be
2024, Klára Tasovská
Classic Cinemas , Sun 20 Oct 2.00pm
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The Aristocrats
2024, Jiří Vejdělek
Classic Cinemas , Sun 20 Oct 5.00pm
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Cold and Dark
2023, Peter Hoštak
Classic Cinemas , Sun 20 Oct 2.00pm
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Our Lovely Pig Slaughter
2024, Adam Martinec
Lido Cinemas , Fri 11 Oct 6.30pm
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Nightsiren
2022, Tereza Nvotová
Lido Cinemas , Fri 11 Oct 8.45pm
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SHE – HERO
2023, Mira Fornay
Lido Cinemas , Sat 19 Oct 2.00pm
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THE PIED PIPER
1986, Jiří Barta
Lido Cinemas , Sat 19 Oct 4.30pm
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Dede is Dead
2023, Philippe Kastner
Lido Cinemas , Sat 19 Oct 2.00pm
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The Gardener’s Year
2024, Jiří Havelka
Lido Cinemas , Sat 19 Oct 7.00pm
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The Vanished World of Gloves
1982, Jiří Barta
Lido Cinemas , Sat 19 Oct 4.30pm
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Bunk
2022, Piotr Jasiński
Classic Cinemas , Sun 13 Oct 2.00pm
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Of Fences and Men
2023, Petr Michal
Classic Cinemas , Sun 13 Oct 2.00pm
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A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places
2023, Katarína Gramatová
Classic Cinemas , Sun 13 Oct 2.00pm
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Wasteland
2023, Timotej Lukovič
Classic Cinemas , Sun 13 Oct 2.00pm
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Far Between Us
2024, Vojtěch Javůrek
Classic Cinemas , Sun 13 Oct 2.00pm
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The Hungarian Dressmaker
2024, Iveta Grófová
Classic Cinemas , Sun 13 Oct 4.45pm
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Inheritance
2023, Matei Norbert Mlinarcsik
Classic Cinemas , Sun 13 Oct 2.00pm
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Madonna
2023, Marina Malysh
Classic Cinemas , Sun 13 Oct 2.00pm
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Next Wave: Shorts Strand
2023
Classic Cinemas , Sun 13 Oct 2.00pm
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Closely Observed Trains
1966, Jiří Menzel
ACMI , Wed 25 Sep 7.00pm
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Capricious Summer
1968, Jiří Menzel
ACMI , Wed 25 Sep 8.50pm
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Jiří Menzel – To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
2016, Robert Kolinsky
ACMI , Wed 02 Oct 9.05pm
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I Served the King of England
2006, Jiří Menzel
ACMI , Wed 02 Oct 7.00pm
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Larks on a String
1969 / 1990, Jiří Menzel
ACMI , Wed 09 Oct 7.00pm
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Those Wonderful Movie Cranks
1979, Jiří Menzel
ACMI , Wed 09 Oct 8.50pm
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Weeds
2024, Pola Kazak
Classic Cinemas , Thu 10 Oct 6.30pm
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MARCH TO MAY
2024, Martin Pavol Repka
Classic Cinemas , Thu 10 Oct 6.30pm
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