Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia

The 3^rd 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 3^rd 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