At the 79th edition of Festival de Cannes (May 12 – 23, 2026), Slovakia will be represented at the Marché du Film (May 12 – 20, 2026) across three different programmes, as well as in the Producers on the Move programme.
The Crystal Planet Director: Arsen Anton OstojićCZ – SK – HR | 2026 | 97 min. | animation On the recently colonized Crystal Planet, 11-year-old Rea befriends a dinosaur-like cub named Burgy, who was separated from his mother by a mutant monster. As Rea attempts to reunite Burgy with his mother, she faces a dangerous […]
Alica Bednáriková, a director and screenwriter, is the first Slovak to take part in the prestigious La Résidence programme, which is a Cannes Film Festival platform. During her residency in Paris, she worked on developing the script for her feature debut Attention Whores, a co-production between nutprodukcia (SK) and nutprodukce (CZ). The residency will culminate in a presentation before the CNC committee, which will take place during this year’s Cannes Film Festival at the Gray d’Albion Beach Hotel on Wednesday, May 13, from 3 p.m.
Agata Novinski is a Slovak producer working in the field of animated film. With her producing debut – the feature-length puppet film Living Large – she achieved significant success. The film premiered at the prestigious Annecy festival, where it won the Jury Award in the Contrechamp section, received the ECFA Award, and was also nominated for the European Film Awards. This year, she presented the animated film Tourists together with its director Mária Kralovič at the world’s largest short film festival in Clermont-Ferrand. Agata Novinski currently leads the Slovak Association of Animated Film Producers (APAF).
The upcoming documentary essay Sisters, directed by Tereza Bernátková, returns to the 1950s and 1960s Czechoslovakia. At the time, a group of nuns were relocated to a mental institution to care for the inmates, with one of them spending 13 years capturing life in this isolated women’s community on an 8mm camera. The project, produced […]
Thanks to the film Caravan, Slovakia is once again represented in the program of the Festival de Cannes, whose 78th edition takes place from 13 to 24 May 2025. Other Slovak film professionals will be present at the Marché du Film as well. The Slovak-Czech-Italian feature film Caravan by the first-time director Zuzana Kirchnerová will […]
The feature film Caravan explores timeless themes of freedom, love, and the courage to choose one’s own happiness through the story of a mother, Ester, and her mentally disabled son, David. The Slovak-Czech-Italian co-production, directed by Zuzana Kirchnerová, was filmed based on her own script (co-written with Tomáš Bojar and Kristina Majová), which draws from […]
Multiple Slovak talents are heading to the Marché du Film and the 77th Festival de Cannes (May 14 – 25, 2024).
An Interview with Wanda Adamík Hrycová about her upcoming projects and her expectations for Producers on the Move program.