CASFFA 2022 AFCA SPECIAL JURY PRIZE WINNER: SAVING ONE WHO WAS DEAD
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 stunning film heartbreakingly captures a sense of loss and sadness. Presented in portrait format, the styling of the film is beautiful in its repetition, encapsulating the clinical and uniform setting. […]
Meet CaSFFA 2022 Juror Ahlia Karam
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 society I never felt like I saw anyone who looked like me on screen. I’d go to the cinema with school friends and feel like I was watching representations of […]
Meet CaSFFA 2022 Juror Nadine Whitney
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 movement (mostly Buñuel and other works that were contemporary to the era). He then showed us some later films including the genius and subversive films of Jan Švankmajer. I was […]
Meet CaSFFA 2022 Juror Peter Krausz
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 to speak English. Yet for me it gave me exhilarating experiences that opened up new worlds and ideas. At High School, we were shown films every Friday afternoon, some of […]
First announcement for 2018: Věra Chytilová retrospective
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 screenings presented by the Melbourne Cinémathèque! Moreover, every year since CaSFFA’s outset we’ve partnered with the Cinémathèque to present a selection of gems from the Czech and Slovak archives. This […]
First Announcement for 2017: Juraj Herz Retrospective
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 next springtime festival even before the first month of the new year is over! For every year since our outset we’ve partnered with the Melbourne Cinémathèque to present a selection […]
Guests at #CaSFFA2016
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 to share their time, talents, energies, enthusiasm and expertise in order to enliven things no end at #CaSFFA2016! SHAUN TAN Originally from Perth, WA, Shaun Tan works as an artist […]
Welcome
Welcome, one and all, to the 4th Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFFA), our biggest and boldest event yet, with its theme of “Text and Texture” encompassing not just the one expected art form (cinema); not just two (cinema and literature), but all those points where the cinematic and literary arts collide – all […]