Juraj Chlpik

Born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Selected filmography: 2020 Servants (world-premiere in the 70th Berlinale's Encounters section), 2017 A hole in the head, 2011 The House. Juraj Chlpik came to fame with Blind Loves (Slepe lasky, 2008) directed by Juraj Lehotsky, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Such documentary, telling with great delicacy the love affairs of four blind persons, participated to some of the most acclaimed film festivals around the world, from Toronto to Mar del Plata, from London to Belgrade. For his work in Blind Loves Chlpik got a special mention at Plus Camerimage, the most renowned festival dedicated to the art and craft of cinematography in the world. The House 2011, first feature film of Zuzana Liova was premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011 and achieved various awards including the Jury Prize in the New Voices/New Visions category at the Palm Spring Festival and the Audience Award for Best Film at the International Film Festival Bratislava in 2011. Chlpik has also shot Petrzalka Identity, a personal work focusing the relationship between human beings and the socialist architecture in the district of Bratislava Petrzalka, by the border between Slovakia, Hungary and Austria. His work The Last Bus (Posledny autobus, 2011) directed by Martin Snopek and Ivana Laucikova, awarded with the Prix de la Jeueness at the ISFF Clermont Ferrand 2012 and the Grand Prix at the Tampere Film Festival 2012.