Azyl Shorts 2022

For the second time our festival Azyl Shorts will take place physically in Banská Bystrica. Four-day film festival is programmed to attract local audiences but also experienced filmmakers, film students, film enthusiasts and new talents. Before the beginning of the festival, from 3.10. to 5.10. we will organize screenings for local high schools in cooperation with them. From 4.10. to 8.10. there will be Workshop AZYL for highschoolers, socially and physically disabled and Ukrainian young people aged 14–21. On 5.10. our opening ceremony will take place in Museum SNP with screenings Best of AZYL 2021 and best world shorts 1. After the ceremony there will be a concert in Záhrada culture center of the Japan band Tricot. On 6.10. there will be a masterclass with a professional cinematographer at the Academy of Arts. We will screen the best old Slovak shorts in cooperation with the Slovak Film Archive, best Polish and Hungarian shorts and we will organize a concert in Záhrada with Polish and Hungarian artists in the electro genre. On 7.10. there will be screenings of short movies from Slovakia and Czech republic. There will be a screening of Ukrainian shorts and best world shorts 2. In Urban Spot we will organize a concert of Slovak, Czech and Ukrainian artists' cooperation in genre hip-hop. On Saturday, 8.10. it will be the last day of AZYL Shorts festival. We will organize a theater for children and families. There will be a screening of student movies, best world shorts 3 in Museum SNP and screening of shorts made at our workshop in Záhrada. In Museum SNP our closing ceremony will take place with online streaming on dafilms.sk. After that it will be a final jazz concert in Záhrada. All of the main screenings will take place in Museum SNP as well as our opening and closing ceremony. Concerts will take place in Urban Spot and Záhrada. Masterclasses and workshop will take place at the Academy of Arts. Screening of workshop movies and theater for children will happen in Záhrada.