A guest-worker in Germany, Milan (40), discovers that back home in Slovakia his teenage son has become involved with home guards when he is accused of bullying and killing a classmate. The father starts searching for the truth about what happened, the truth about himself ...

Direction: Marko Škop

Script: Marko Škop

Production: Marko Škop

Co-Production: Ján Meliš, Petr Oukropec, Pavel Strnad

Cinematography: Ján Meliš

Editing: František Krähenbiel

Production Design: Pavol Andraško

Costume Design: Erika Gadus

Make-Up: Zuzana Paulini

Sound: Jan Čeněk

Cast: Milan Ondrík, František Beleš, Zuzana Konečná, Ľubomír Paulovič, Maximilián Dušanič, Daniel Fischer, Csongor Kassai, Katarína Kormaňáková

Original Title: NECH JE SVETLO

Original Languages: German, Slovak

Film Production Countries: Slovakia, Czechia

Website: http://artileria.sk/en/catalogue/let_there_be_light/

Social Media: https://web.facebook.com/nechjesvetlo

Statement of the Director/s
I am interested in the theme of an ordinary man, one out of the millions, who takes part in the mass xenophobic soul with his own tiny, ignorant particle, when he is confronted with the consequences of hatred in a hard way through events that occur in his own family.

I have the feeling that there exists just a very thin line between affiliation to our own people, to people just like me on the one hand, and a broken nose on the other, when I stop being in harmony with them. I would like to try to depict evil and the mistakes that can lead to it in our unstable existence.

Biography of the Director/s
Born in 1974 in Prešov, Slovakia, Marko Škop received degrees in journalism at Comenius University in Bratislava in 1996 and in documentary film directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava in 2001. He gained his PhD in Mass Media from the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava in 2005.
He is co-founder of the independent film production company ARTILERIA, Ltd. established in 2006 in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Filmography of the Director/s
2019 LET THERE BE LIGHT
2015 EVA NOVÁ
2009 OSADNÉ
2006 OTHER WORLDS

Awards Won
Best Actor Award & Ecumenical Jury Award - Special Mention - Karlovy Vary IFF 2019
Grand Prix - Almaty Film Festival 2019
Grand Prix - Batoumi International Art House Film Festival 2019
Grand Prix - Golden Angel - Tofifest IFF 2019
Rainbow Spike - Special Mention - Valladolid IFF 2019
Prize for Best Film - Youth Film Competition - Cottbus FF 2019
Silver Atlas – Best Director Award - Arras FF 2019
Grand Prix - Zinegoak LGBT FF Bilbao 2020
CEI Award - Trieste FF2020

Production Company:
ARTILERIA
Marko Škop
Drobného 23
Bratislava, 84101, Slovakia
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +421903789198

World Sales:
LOCO FILMS
Laurent Danielou
16 rue Claude Tillier
Paris, 75012, France
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +33762994919

Press:
ARTILERIA
Marko Škop
Drobného 23
Bratislava, 84101, Slovakia
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +421903789198