COMPETITION

European student films

Programme 4

Blízko

Gregor Valentovič
2022 - Slovakia - 29mn

Screenings : friday 27 - 10:15 am - 400 Coups - 3 friday 27 - 4:45 pm - Centre de congrès - Auditorium - presented and followed by a debate with the directors

Robi and Zuzana are old friends from music college. They have come to Vienna to visit Paul for his thesis concert. As the festive night goes on and they wander through the city, the friendly reunion slowly turns into a competition for the attention of the handsome Austrian.

Gregor Valentovič graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in directing. His short film The Test (2016) was selected by Premiers Plans in 2017. His graduation film Kid (2019) was screened at the Karlovy Cary International Film Festival. He is currently working on his first feature, Twentyseven.

CAST AND CREW

Cast : Dana Droppová, August Elias Kirschgens, Dániel Szebellai
Screenplay : Ivana Sujová, Gregor Valentovič
Cinematography : Lukáš Kačerjak
Sound : Samuel Škubla
Editing : Katarína Pavelková

Production : Academy of Performing Arts

SCHOOL

VŠMU - Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava
Svoradova 2
813 01 Bratislava
Slovaquie
+421 2 59303 577

VŠMU is a state higher education establishment teaching dance, drama, music and cinema in Slovakia, and was created in 1949. The philosophy of the department of cinema and television is to combine novelty, from a constantly changing world, and tradition, which the school is a flagship for with its 50–year teaching history.