EUNIC-DocMonday: Worlds Beyond Light / Svety za svetlom

The DocMonday on 27.09.2021 at the Czech Centre Berlin with two Slovak films from the world of the blind and visually impaired is all about the 31st FilmFestival Cottbus (2-7.11.2021), which this year presents a Slovak thematic focus with the section Spotlight: Slovensko, among others.

Filmstill BLIND LOVES - please click the picture to get to the trailer
 

BLIND LOVES**
SLEPÉ LÁSKY **

Juraj Lehotský 

SK, 2008, 73 min

Language version: Original with English subtitle

Juraj Lehotský's multiple award-winning Slepé lásky / Blind Loves tells the very personal love stories of people who are blind or severely visually impaired. Music teacher Peter and his wife, who is also blind, live happily married in a small prefabricated flat. He is creative and imaginative, she listens to him knitting and takes care of everyday life. The blind Rom Miro falls in love with Monika, but her parents are against this relationship. Elena desperately wants a child and at the same time is afraid whether, as a blind woman, she will be able to cope with all the challenges of motherhood. Zuzana is still very young and in search of her first love, she finds it on the internet. In his "moving and completely unsentimental" (Variety) documentary, director Lehotsky embarks on a sensitive search for the sources of happiness in the lives of blind people.

Supporting film

Filmstill MARKED BY DARKNESS - please click the picture to get to the trailer
 

MARKED BY DARKNESS
POZNAČENÍ TMOU

Štefan Uher

ČSR 1959, 17 min

Language version: Original with English subtitle

The opening film is Poznačení tmou / Marked by Darkness, a short documentary from 1959 about everyday life at the boarding school for visually impaired and blind children in Levoča, where Peter, one of the protagonists from Slepé lásky, works as a music teacher fifty years later. The film was directed by Štefan Uher, who later became known as one of the important directors of the Czechoslovak New Wave.

With Bernd Buder (Programme Director of FilmFestival Cottbus) and Rastislav Steranka (Director of the National Cinema Centre at the Slovak Film Institute) as guests.

A EUNIC-Event by FilmFestivals Cottbus, the Slovak Film Institute, the Slovakian Institute Berlin und des Czech Centre Berlin.

Mo, 27.9.2021, 19:00
Czech Centre Berlin
for free