Tuesday 13 August 2013

The Four Elements Film Festival

Last week I went to the Four Elements Film Festival in Banska Stiavnica. We stayed in a nice flat where a musician lived. There were 14 guitars in the living room as well as other instruments.

Each day we walked through a wood and up through the cemetery to visit the town and back again at night. This year the theme was 'love'. We saw lots of films new and old from different parts of the world; India, Romania, Taiwan and of course Slovakia and the Czech Republic. It is a much better experience to see films at the cinema on the big screen and with an audience, and not just the usual commercial American films at the local multiplex. It was also great to watch films each evening outdoors at the amphitheatre. The atmosphere was more relaxed and sometimes it was more like being at a pantomime.

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