New festival opens minority issue.

(From The Slovak Spectator)

SLOVAKIA's first festival of films about minorities, the Minority Film Festival, will take place in Bratislava from September 12 to 14. The Mlados Cinema and the Czech Centre, both located in Hviezdoslav Square, will showcase documentary, feature, and short films that deal with the subject of minorities and the issue of tolerance. "The festival will be held, more than symbolically, right during the Pope's visit to Slovakia," said Miloslav Seepka from the Barok Film organisation, the festival's organiser. "It will bring various aspects showing how cinematography deals with questions concerning minorities, their cohabitation and tolerance - with the aim of opening the issue, calling up a discussion." The movies that will be shown come mainly from Czech and Slovak productions. Among them will be the Czech series by Martin Smok and Peter Bok: Among Bedazzled Madmen, which portrays the Jewish revolt in Slovakia during the second world war, ...