FILM: Blind Loves (Slepé lásky) - film o láskach, ktoré treba vidieť

AWARDS of film Blind Loves (Slepé lásky)







cover page of Blind Loves movie directed by Juraj Lehotský

CICAE Art Cinema Award
40. Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2008

National nomination for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2008

Nomination for the Most Valuable Documentary Film of the Year
Cinema for Peace Awards, Berlinale 2009

Golden Taiga
7th Spirit of Fire Film Festival, Khanty-Mansijsk 2009

Golden Eye for the Best Documentary film
4th Zurich Film Festival 2008

FIPRESCI Prize
10th Motovun Film Festival 2008

„Discovery of the Year“ - Special Mention of the Jury
5th Reykjavík IFF 2008

Grand Prix Cinessonne
10th Festival of European Films in Essonne 2008

Special Mention for the Documentary Film
6th FICCO Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival

17th Plus Camerimage, Lodz 2009
Special Mention of the Feature Documentary Jury for cinematography - Juraj Chlpík

Prize for originality and innovative direction
3rd Emotion Pictures Festival, Athens 2009

Honorary Jury Special Mention
5th International Documentary Film Festival, Play-Doc Tui

The Mayor of the Town of Trenčianske Teplice’s award
16th Artfilm 2008

Audience Award for the Best Documentary film
20th Trieste Film Festival 2009

Best documentary film
9th Songes d'une nuit, Paris 2008

Best Romantic Documentary
The Fringe Report Awards 2009

Sun in a Net
National Film Award - Best Documentary Film 2008-2009
National Film Award - Best Director for Juraj Lehotský
National Film Award - Best Screenplay for Juraj Lehotský and Marek Leščák
National Film Award - Best Film Editing for František Krähenbiel
National Film Award - Best Sound Mixing for František Krähenbiel

Slovak Film of the Year
Kinema Film of the Year 2008

Prize of the Director of the Festival
15th Etnofilm Čadca 2008

Special Prize for the Contribution to Slovak Cinema
Association of Slovak Film Clubs

Premium Prize for the Documentary Film
National Film Award IGRIC 2009

Prize of the Film Critics
National Film Award IGRIC 2009


ABOUT FILM

Blind Loves is a film about love between blind people. Love can be soft, love can be silly, love can be blind at times... To find one´s place in this world is not an easy thing to do for people with good sight, but how much more difficult it can get for somobedy who is blind? The „view“ of blind persons is often pure and essential, and very often witty. It uncovers new dimensions of meaning of happiness.

Director´s outline
Our film depicts four blind people and through them we get to know the stories of their loves. Blind teacher Peter has a very unique imagination. He likes to listen to adventurous radio plays, where he can submerge into a fairytale world. He lives together with his wife in a nice relationship behind the walls of a small department and that´s where their small-big story is set. Blind Roma Miro falls in love with an almost blind white girl. His story is a story of troublesome fight for love.
Blind Elena desires to have a child. Her story lets us in the emotional world of a blind woman – mother to be. We are sharing her excitement, her fears but most of all her great desire to bear a child and raise it. The time of awaiting is full of joy and new questions and full of delicate situations. Blind teenager Zuzana is in search of her first love. She finds it on the internet, where she can hide her secret – the fact that she is blind.
Life of blind people drew my attention as a subject giving possibility to have an insight into the mystery of life in blindness. The fact that someone is born to “darkness” calls for a number of questions about the ways these people live. One of the most important of them in my opinion is where the source of their happiness is? Their world might be lacking sight but it can be richer in spirituality on the other hand. And maybe it´s them who really understand the true essence of happiness. To find one´s place in this world is not an easy thing to do for people with good sight, but how much more difficult it can get for somobedy who is blind? The „view“ of blind persons is often pure and essential, and very often witty. It uncovers new dimensions of meaning of happiness.