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MELBOURNE/NAARM, AUSTRALIA, September 9, 2022 – The Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFFA) is proud to announce its 10th annual installment themed “Movement”. In that spirit, CaSFFA is also moving and shaking as we will be returning to cinemas in Melbourne and Canberra and expanding to Adelaide, at the Regal Theatre. This year in Melbourne we welcome the new venue partner Classic and Lido Cinemas in Elsternwick and Hawthorn.

CaSFFA President, Lubica Shannon, said of the festival, ‘Our online offerings over the past two years had demonstrated interest in our films from parts of the country outside our usual Melbourne and Canberra base, so the team decided it was time to expand to Adelaide, with a view to add further locations in the future’. The festival will also continue to run its successful online component, this year celebrating 10 years of CaSFFA with a selection of some of the best films shown over the life of the festival. This includes the popular The Cassandra Cat (Vojtěch Jasný, 1963), Daisies (Věra Chytilová, 1966), Little Harbour (Iveta Grófová, 2017) and a movement themed selection of shorts titled Wide World: Shorts in Motion.

The festival’s opening night film in all cities is the stirring biopic “Zatopek”, about powerhouse long-distance runner Emil Zátopek. For our Closing Night film, we transport to the coastline with “Happy New Year II”, a rom-com that’s having just as much success as the 2019 original, screened at CaSFFA’s drive-in edition in 2020.

Of the program, Artistic Director, Ali Back, said ‘We’re screening films that offer all sorts of promises. “Saving One Who Was Dead” promises a passage into the spiritual, gliding between the realms of the living and the dead. With “Kapr Code”, we’re offered a mixture of the abstract, the home-video, and the musical – a trip most definitely worth exploring. At the other end, there is “The Enchanted Cave”, strong in fantasy and magic, it offers a fairy-tale story with a mixture of heart, good old-fashioned sword fighting, and folklore. And don’t forget, “Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits” a rock climbing biopic that proves just as luminous as it is beautiful.’

CaSFFA continues its long-standing partnership with the Melbourne Cinémathèque. Bringing you a retrospective on the indefinable Juraj Jakubisko, audiences can find themselves – on the Wednesday before Opening Night, and the Wednesday after Closing Night – in the extraordinary worlds of a director who has never given creativity and provocation a moment’s rest.

CaSFFA’s list of sponsors and partners for 2022 includes ESET, The Foreigner Brewing Company, Sense Creative Advertising, Mr Moto, Becherovka, Josef Chromy Wines, Mattoni & Magnesia Mineral Water, Gourmet Czech, The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Canberra, The Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Canberra, Consulate General of the Czech Republic, Slovak Audio Visual Fund, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Burnside City Council, Domov House and Gallery, Czech Centres, Arina Film Production, Office of Slovak’s Living Abroad, Slovak Film Institute, CSFFWA, Aussie & Kiwi Film Fest, SBS Slovak, and Vodafest.

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