International Film Festival Cinematik (IFFC) is an international film festival in

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, Slovakia, annually held during second week of September. The 14th year was held from 10 to 15 September 2019. Festival is focusing primarily on

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and Slovak cinematography. The organizers of the festival are non-governmental organization MFF Piešťany, o.z., backed by the City of Piešťany and Slovak Health Spa Piešťany. The festival takes place at seven locations: the House of Arts, Fontana cinema, Cinema club, the music pavilion, Kursalon, on Spa island by Bažant cinema and bar Žiwell.

Festival board

Honorary director of the festival since its establishment is Slovak actress

Božidara Turzonovová Božidara Turzonovová,For biographical information concerning Turzonovová, use her general links, respectively the csfd's. (; born on May 28, 1942) is a Slovaks, Slovak film and stage (theater), stage actress of Bulgarian origin, often referred ...

. Executive director is Tomáš Klenovský and Slovak director Vladimír Štric is artistic director. Main award of the festival is given for the winner in main competitive section - ''Meeting Point Europe Award'' (MPE). The award goes to the best European movie made since previous year of Cinematik and is held under the auspices of the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI.

Festival years

* 1st IFF Cinematik 2006; MPE Award: '' Caché'' (director:

Michael Haneke Michael Haneke (; born 23 March 1942) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. His work often examines social issues and depicts the feelings of estrangement experienced by individuals in modern society. Haneke has made films in French, G ...

) * 2nd IFF Cinematik 2007; MPE Award: '' Taxidermia'' (director:

György Pálfi György Pálfi (born 11 April 1974 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian filmmaker. His film ''Taxidermia'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Pálfi's films have received numerous awards and nominatio ...

) * 3rd IFF Cinematik 2008; MPE Award: ''

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days ''4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'' ( ro, 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile) is a 2007 Romanian art film written and directed by Cristian Mungiu and starring Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, and Vlad Ivanov. The film is set in Socialist Republic o ...

'' (director: Cristian Mungiu) * 4th IFF Cinematik 2009; MPE Award: '' The Class'' (director: Laurent Cantet) * 5th IFF Cinematik 2010; MPE Award: ''

The White Ribbon ''The White Ribbon'' (german: Das weiße Band) is a 2009 German-language drama film, written and directed by Michael Haneke. Released in black-and-white, the film offers a dark depiction of society and family in a northern German village just be ...

'' (director:

) * 6th IFF Cinematik 2011; MPE Award: '' Another Year'' (director:

Mike Leigh Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design ...

) * 7th IFF Cinematik 2012; MPE Award: '' The Artist'' (director:

Michel Hazanavicius Michel Hazanavicius ( lt, Hazanavičius; born 29 March 1967) is a French film director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. He is best known for his 2011 film, '' The Artist'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 84th Academy Aw ...

) * 8th IFF Cinematik 2013; MPE Award: '' The Hunt'' (director: Thomas Vinterberg) * 9th IFF Cinematik 2014; MPE Award: '' The Great Beauty'' (director:

Paolo Sorrentino Paolo Sorrentino (; born 31 May 1970) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer. His 2013 film ''The Great Beauty'' won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, and the Bafta Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In Italy he was honoure ...

) * 10th IFF Cinematik 2015; MPE Award: ''

The Duke of Burgundy ''The Duke of Burgundy'' is a 2014 British erotic romance drama film written and directed by Peter Strickland, and starring Sidse Babett Knudsen as Cynthia and Chiara D'Anna as Evelyn. The film was screened at various film festivals, including ...

'' (director: Peter Strickland) * 11th IFF Cinematik 2016; MPE Award: ''

Son of Saul ''Son of Saul'' ( hu, Saul fia) is a 2015 Hungarian historical drama film directed by László Nemes, in his feature directorial debut, and co-written by Nemes and Clara Royer. It is set in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, a ...

'' (director:

László Nemes László Nemes (born Nemes Jeles László; ; 18 February 1977) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His 2015 debut feature film, ''Son of Saul,'' was screened in the main competition at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the ...

) * 12th IFF Cinematik 2017; MPE Award: ''

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'' (director: Julia Ducournau) * 13th IFF Cinematik 2018; MPE Award: ''

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'' (director:

Pawel Pawlikowski Pavel ( Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel ...

) * 14th IFF Cinematik 2019; MPE Award: ''

The Favourite ''The Favourite'' is a 2018 period black comedy film co-produced and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, from a screenplay by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara. Set in early 18th century Great Britain, the film's plot examines the relationship betw ...

'' (director: Yorgos Lanthimos) * 15th IFF Cinematik 2020; MPE Award: '' Beanpole'' (director:

Kantemir Balagov Kantemir Arturovich Balagov (russian: Кантемир Артурович Балагов, kbd, Бэлагъы Артурыкъуэ Къантемыр; born 28 July 1991) is a Russian film director of Circassian descent, screenwriter and cinema ...

)

References

External links

* Film festivals in Slovakia {{Europe-film-festival-stub