New & upcoming Slovak films

A dramaturg is present during the writing of the screenplay, but does not write the film. A dramaturg is present during the shoot, but does not direct the film. A dramaturg sits in the editing room, but does not edit the film. A dramaturg is involved in many other aspects of film production as well, […]

Milota documentary film is a sensitive probe into the most intimate spheres of the personal life of artist-photographer Milota Havránková, combined with the revelation of her artistic identity, her strong stance towards the political climate and artistic creation of the 1960s and 1970s, her coexistence with young artists and, above all, her strong and unique […]

Hlohovec. Among its streets once pulsed the life of a Jewish community, an integral part of the town’s growth. Merchants, craftsmen, teachers — people who shaped the face and soul of the city. Then came the years when names were erased from the records, houses were emptied and the streets became silent witnesses to fates […]

Becoming Ema follows a young woman who defies her parents’ expectations and societal norms to ‘become someone’. Ema and her husband, Tomas, decide to step out of the hamster wheel of modern life, investing their savings in a rural plot of land to embrace a life close to nature and the transformative power of motherhood. […]

We Have to Survive is a cinematic odyssey across our one shared home—Earth—capturing the extraordinary ways people adapt, endure, and find hope as our planet transforms. Filmed across four countries and several continents, the film invites us into different “rooms” of our global home: the fragile Outer Banks of the USA, where the ocean slowly […]

A raw, self-made and deeply personal work, If Pigeons Turned to Gold cuts into addiction and intergenerational trauma, capturing several years in the lives of four family members. Pepa, the director, records on an iPhone and tries to understand why their beloved older brother and cousins live unhoused and experience substance addiction. Formally inventive and […]

Tourists lie carelessly on the beach while the island is caught in flames. In her short film Greetings from Rhodes, director Viera Čákanyová reveals our talent for ignoring crises with irony and a hint of kitsch. Realistic comments from holidaymakers and glossy advertisements from travel agencies complement this tragicomic scene and invite the audience to […]

Our house stands where an old cemetery once was. My mother used to say that ghosts are nothing to fear – it’s the living you should fear. The film is a dialogue between a son and a mother who has retreated from the world into the quiet of her house. In images of deserted places […]