By Jacob Agius Jiří Mádl, the director of Waves (2024), got his start as an actor in the Czech comedy film Snowboarders (Karel Janák, 2004). […]
By Joey Demczuk What would you say if I invited you to spend an hour and a half looking at still photos? But what if those […]
She – Hero, tells the story of Romy, a 7 year old, who looks for her lost budgie Mimi. It is a lovely children’s film […]
Peter Hośták’s Cold and Dark is filled with evocative imagery and ideas. Set in a Slovak forest, the thirty-minute film observes draft horse logging, yet […]
Puppetry animation gives directors vast powers to create fantasy worlds. In Tony, Shelly, and the Magic Light, Filip Pošivač preserves this creative spirit. Although his […]
Martin Pavol Repka’s childhood is embedded in his debut feature film March to May (Od Marca do Mája). The 83 minute film, set in a […]
By Ahlia Karam Congratulations to Saving One Who Was Dead by Václav Kadrnka which has won this year’s Best Film Award at CaSFFA 2022. This […]
My interest in international film stemmed from the lack of diversity I was seeing in mainstream cinema. Growing up Lebanese Australian in a predominately white […]
I first came to Czechoslovakian cinema through surrealism. In a cinema studies class at university my tutor took us through the standard fare of the […]
My love of cinema goes back to my childhood when my mother would take me to the cinema every week, mainly for her to learn […]
The following is a transcript of the award speeches delivered at the Closing Night of the 6th Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia on […]
26/09/2018 | Zak Hepburn, Stuart Richards and Eloise Ross
I first came to Miloš Forman like many others, I suppose. As a young film lover in a small country town growing up, the international […]
In mid-2009, after I finished my Honours thesis and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, a friend and I spent three months backpacking through Europe. […]
The Czech and Slovak Film Festival is renowned for going above and beyond its mission of showcasing the finest Czech and Slovak films, whether it be […]
I have been an educator since 2010 and have only formally become a film critic this year through my work on Triple R’s Plato’s Cave […]
(Photo: Věra Chytilová and Dagmar Bláhová. Photo courtesy of D. Bláhová.) Tell me about The Apple Game (Hra o Jablko, dir. Věra Chytilová, 1976, Czechoslovakia)… […]
11/09/2018 | Linda Studená
Today’s the first Wednesday of February, which signifies something wonderful for Melbourne’s fanatical cinephile community – it heralds the opening of another glorious year of […]
As part of this year’s Czech and Slovak Film Festival there was a panel discussion on the question of how images play a role in […]
In my first blog post for the Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia, I mentioned my fondness for Alice in Wonderland, and especially Jan […]
The following is a transcript of the award speeches delivered at the Closing Night of the 5th Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia on […]
15/10/2017 | Faith Everard and Stephen A Russell
It is a cliché that film biographies attempt to discover the essence of a person – who they were and why they did their noteworthy […]
A Slovak and Czech co-production – like many of this year’s CaSFFA offerings – the festival theme of ‘Neighbours’ takes a dark but important turn […]
Of the many, oft-justified misconceptions made about critics, the most maddening (and easily debunked) is the idea that we know everything about movies. Though it’s […]
While it is certainly true that the citizens of our national capital of disputed dual nationality are now blessed with the glorious Czech and Slovak […]
14/09/2017 | Stephen A Russell
The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze, aka The Shop on High Street) is a wonderful example of a cinema of neighbours, representing the […]
I recall fondly the first Czechoslovak film I ever saw – René Laloux’s French/Czechoslovak hybrid Fantastic Planet (1973, pictured above). It was a film I’d […]
Growing up in and around Sydney in the 1950s I knew nothing about films other than those made in English until around 1955 when I […]
In what is now a well established CaSFFA tradition, it brings us great pleasure to be able to make our first program announcements for our […]
Esteemed Australian historian and author Humphrey McQueen recently attended the Czech and Slovak Film Festival when it visited the National Film and Sound Archive in […]
One thing that became immediately clear to the jury members as we began to delve into the CaSFFA program was that this was to be […]
26/09/2016 | Tom Clift, Hayley Inch and Glenn Dunks
Voyeurism is a popular theme in film. That is presumably no accident since the mere act of sitting in a darkened theatre and watching people’s […]
For the first time in our four year run, CaSFFA presents a series of unique new short films in If You Go into the Woods […]
Slovakia’s answer to Bill Cunningham! That may be how some see fit to describe Zuzana Mináčová, the heavily influential photographer whose story is the centre […]
It feels strange to call Theodor Pištěk a costume designer, when in an interview for The Washington Post, back in 1985, he claimed, “I want […]
Getting to know Hayley, and getting to know Czech and Slovak cinema I felt a little bit guilty initially on agreeing to be a CaSFFA […]
Like many of a certain generation, I began my film writing life on a blog while simultaneously working the sort of retail and hospitality jobs […]
In the five years that I’ve been fortunate enough to watch movies for a living, I’ve likewise been blessed with the opportunity to attend a […]
Horror festers within the shadows, we’re told, but what if it makes its way into the sunshine? In the myriad cultures she has long haunted, […]
What’s a film festival without guests to liven things up? We’ve got a range of remarkable people coming in from outside of the core festival team […]
