AmCham Slovakia

Festival Specials: AmCham Mini Cinema

"AmCham MINI CINEMA” is part of the Festival of Future and with three documentary movies, we want to bring our members closer to the complexities of our world. Four documentaries uncompromisingly reflect the complex present, which changes constantly, forcing us to react immediately.  

We believe that everyone who joins the “AmCham MINI CINEMA” will leave with an open mind, with new perspectives, enriched, and equipped with thought-provoking questions.  

The films can be viewed thanks to the cooperation with the film festival One World and their project One World in Communities. 

DOCUMENTARY MOVIES

14.00_LEAVING (90 minutes) / English 

The movie represents the generation of Roma children who immigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1990s and the beginning of the new millennium. In England, they were given opportunities that were denied to them in their native country, Slovakia or the Czech Republic, and thanks to this they are today educated and self-confident Europeans.  

The movie Leaving has three protagonists: Ondrej Olah, Denisa Ganon, and Petr Toták. They represent the generation of Roma children who immigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1990s and the beginning of the new millennium. In England, they were given new opportunities. However, Brexit and the global pandemic affected their lives. We follow the consequences very closely, through the eyes of the film's protagonists themselves. 

15.30_DEEP RISING (90 minutes) / English 

The documentary Deep Rising depicts a story of geopolitical, scientific, and corporate strategies: It examines the future of the global energy crisis and how the present is connected by a vessel of the deep seabed, which is closely linked by the means of survival.  

As oil conglomerates shift investment to deep-sea mining, this movie explores a recurring destructive pattern of human activity – extracting raw materials for profit – and questions why we're not instead developing abundant resources and solving energy problems with them. 

17.00_COMPLETE TRUST (90 minutes) / with English Subtitles 

"Big Data" and digital technologies are already being used as weapons to limit freedoms. The socially apolitical behavior of the Chinese is changing step by step.  

Chinese director Jialing Zhang, living in the USA, successfully provides an exclusive and hitherto impossible close look inside China with the documentary Full Trust. It tells a very disturbing story about technology, (auto)censorship, and abuse of power, but also how data could be used against people. 

18.30_NUCLEAR NOW (100 minutes) in English 

With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia, and the United States, Nuclear Now explores the possibility for the global community to overcome the challenges of climate change and energy poverty to reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy. 

Beneath our feet, Uranium atoms in the Earth’s crust hold incredibly concentrated energy. Science unlocked this energy in the mid-20th century, first for bombs and then to power submarines. The United States led the effort to generate electricity from this new source. Yet in the mid-20th century as societies began the transition to nuclear power and away from fossil fuels, a long-term PR campaign to scare the public began, funded in part by coal and oil interests. This campaign would sow fear about harmless low-level radiation and create confusion between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Looking squarely at the problem, Oliver Stone shows us that knowledge is the antidote to fear, and our human ingenuity will allow us to solve the climate change crisis if we use it.