MULTIKULTURALITA AKO FENOMÉN VO FILMOCH S TEMATIKOU HRANICE

The study focuses on Central European documentary films which directly suggest the concept of multiculturalism as they take place in an environment of mixed and coexisting cultures and subcultures, living in the geographically divided or frontier areas. The perception of intercultural dialogue in the context of the Central European and in Slovak cinema is largely monologic, facing inward, with strict hierarchy of perceptions of cultural clashes. The dominant culture responds to other cultures from the perspective of power and the presence of minority is regarded as schematic and stereotyped. Therefore, transnational solidarity occurs only rarely. This situation can be attributed to the long period of closure of national and cultural boundaries among the Central European nations with their relationships based only on the common ideology and often treated the cultures of the other ideological block as their enemies. After 1989 and after the emergence of new states, there was an increase of the nationalist passions related to the national consciousness in the early years of nation-building, and since joining the European Union, the native Central European cultures have been taking lessons of how to cope with their own minorities, and respond to new cultures of immigrants, or other previously marginalized groups and collective identities.