The Venice International Film Festival (1. – 11. September 2021) will present the world premiere of Peter Kerekes’s fiction film debut. 107 Mothers will compete with 18 other titles in the Orizzonti section, dedicated to films that represent the lastest aesthetic and expressive trends in the international cinema.
Long-awaited new releases, short films by emerging and experienced directors or upcoming feature-length debuts. The 47th edition of the Summer Film School Uherské Hradiště, which will take place from 6 to 12 August 2021, will present a wide range of Slovak cinema.
The Sunny Side of the Doc, an international market for documentary cinema, gives a special attention to Central and Eastern European region this year. Five Slovak projects are present at the marketplace which takes place online on June 21 – 24, 2021.
UK-based company Second Run has published so far six Slovak films licensed by the Slovak Film Institute (SFI). The latest entry, Peter Solan’s Before Tonight is Over (1965), will world premiere on Blu-ray on 14 June 2021.
Starting on 1 June 2021, MovieZone Short Film Festival in China offers a selection of Slovak short films curated in collaboration with the National Cinematographic Centre of the Slovak Film Institute and Film and TV Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava.
Canadian documentary film festival Hot Docs (29 April – 9 May 2021) will world premiere Lucia Kašová’s feature debut The Sailor within the World Showcase.
The 21st goEast (Festival of Central and Eastern European Film) will present several Slovak and co-production films. Vera Lacková’s feature debut How I Became a Partisan will world premiere in the Competition section.
The BEAST International Film Festival is back and offers a rich Slovak participation. The 4th edition of BEAST IFF will first kick off from the 24th to the 28th of March in partnership with the Portuguese streaming platform Filmin.
Twelve Slovak films screen at the 8th Czech & Slovak Film Festival, starting on 24 March 2021. You can catch them all in Dendy Cinemas Newton in Sydney until 28 March 2021.