5 October

5 October

An inseparable part of living in a city is the desire to leave it, if only for
a short while. That is why part of reflecting upon urban life is also what we
cannot find in a city and what occasionally forces us to set on a journey.
A directorial debut by an established cameraman and photographer Martin
Kollar, 5 October is about one such journey. We don’t quite know why the
main character decided to sit on his bicycle and rides away; all we know is
that on October 5 he is scheduled to undertake a surgery he may not survive.
Perhaps it is his way of dealing with the looming demise; a desire to be all
alone for a moment… or perhaps this temporary escape from the city is
a temporary escape from the Grim Reaper?
Featuring a single protagonist and his diary, and completely free of spoken
word, this magically simple film speaks through images in a way any film
seldom does.

  • Year:
    2016
  • Runtime:
    61 min.
  • Country:
    Slovakia, Czech Republic
  • Director:
    Martin Kollár
  • Screenplay:
    Martin Kollar
  • Dir. of Photography:
    Martin Kollar
  • Music:
    Michal Novinski
  • Editor:
    Alexandra Gojdičová, Marek Šulík
  • Cast:
    Ján Kollár, Vladimír Kollár, Barbora Katriňáková, Ján Doboš
  • Production:
    Punkchart films
  • Sales:
    Punkchart films
  • Festivals:
    Rotterdam 2016, Karlovy Vary 2016, Jihlava 2016 (Cena Silver Eye za najlepší stredometrážny film), AFI Docs 2016

Schedule:

12.11.2016 13:45 Kino Lumière (K2)

About the Director:

Martin Kollár

Martin Kollár (1971, Žilina, Slovakia) completed his studies of camera at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. His reputation of a photographer and a cameraman has crossed Slovakia’s borders a long time ago. He has worked on films 66 Seasons (66 sezón, 2003), How History Is Cooked (Ako sa varia dejiny, 2009) or Velvet Terrorists (Zamatoví teroristi, 2013). He received the Sun in the Net national film award for working as DP on Koza (Koza, 2015), a film by Ivan Ostrochovský