Events in Košice

Meeting of English speaking friends

Location: at SSL Košice, InfoUSA, Hlavná Street 10, 1.floor

Topic: Health and Fitness

Public show of the movie (in English with English subtitles)

Location: at SSL Košice, InfoUSA, Hlavná Street 10, 1.floor

Crash is a 2004 American drama film produced, directed, and co-written by Paul Haggis. The film features racial and social tensions in Los Angeles. A self-described "passion piece" for Haggis, Crash was inspired by a real-life incident, in which his Porsche was carjacked in 1991 outside a video store on Wilshire Boulevard.

watch the official trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVJRcEt4TMM

Several characters' stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles: a black detective estranged from his mother; his criminal younger brother and gang associate; the white district attorney and his irritated, pampered wife; a racist white police officer who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner; an African-American Hollywood director whose wife must deal with the officer; a Persian-immigrant father who is wary of others; and a hard-working Hispanic locksmith family man.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(2004_film)

(to commemorate the World Day of Social Justice)

Meeting of English speaking friends

Location: at SSL Košice, InfoUSA, Hlavná Street 10, 1.floor

Topic: Valentine's Day

Public show of the movie (in English with English subtitles)

Location: at SSL Košice, InfoUSA, Hlavná Street 10, 1.floor

500 Days of Summer (stylized as (500) Days of Summer) is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film by first time director Marc Webb from a screenplay written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, and produced by Mark Waters. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, and employs a nonlinear narrative structure, with the story based upon its male protagonist and his memories of a failed relationship.

Watch the official trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsD0NpFSADM

(on the occassion of the St. Valentine's Day)

Meeting of English speaking friends

Location: at SSL Košice, InfoUSA, Hlavná Street 10, 1.floor

Topic: Immigration, Emigration

Public show of the movie (in English with English subtitles)

Location: at SSL Košice, InfoUSA, Hlavná Street 10, 1.floor

Little Women is a 1994 American family drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong. The screenplay by Robin Swicord, is based on the 1868 Louisa May Alcott novel of the same name. It is the fourth feature film adaptation of the Alcott classic, following silent versions released in 1917 and 1918, a 1933 George Cukor-directed release and a 1949 adaptation by Mervyn LeRoy.

Watch the official trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw1s4okHcsE

he film focuses on the March sisters: beautiful Meg (Trini Alvarado), tempestuous Jo (Winona Ryder), tender Beth (Claire Danes), and romantic Amy (Kirsten Dunst), who are growing up in Concord, Massachusetts during and after the American Civil War. With their father away fighting in the war, the girls struggle with major and minor problems under the guidance of their strong-willed mother, affectionately called Marmee (Susan Sarandon).

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women_(1994_film)

(to commemorate Susan B. Anthony Day - a women's rights activist)

Meeting of English speaking friends

Location: at SSL Košice, InfoUSA, Hlavná Street 10, 1.floor

Topic: Black History Month

Public show of the movie (in English with English subtitles)

Location: at SSL Košice, InfoUSA, Hlavná Street 10, 1.floor

The Help is a 2011 American period drama film directed and written by Tate Taylor and adapted from Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel of the same name. The film features an ensemble cast, including Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Octavia Spencer and Emma Stone.

Watch the official trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0dWCXCjX9o

The film and novel recount the story of young white woman and aspiring journalist Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan. The story focuses on her relationship with two black maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, during the Civil Rights Movement in 1963 Jackson, Mississippi. In an attempt to become a legitimate journalist and writer, Skeeter decides to write a book from the point of view of the maids—referred to as "the help"— exposing the racism they are faced with as they work for white families.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Help_(film)

(to commemorate the Black History month)