The International Festival of Animated Films Anifilm in Třeboň, Czech Republic (May 1 – 6, 2018) will introduce work of multiple generations of Slovak animators. The festival will also host a Visegrad Animation Forum platform for film professionals.
The 31st edition of the film festival Finále Plzeň (April 19 – 24, 2018) brings a programme full of Slovak films. The international jury will select the best films in three categories and choose the winners of the Golden Kingfisher Award.
The 18th edition of Film Festival goEast (April 18 – 24, 2018) will present a sample of Central and Eastern European Cinema to German audience. Czech-Slovak co-production Ice Mother by Bohdan Sláma is selected for Competition and creative documentary Occupation 1968, produced by Slovak documentarian Peter Kerekes will be introduced in world premiere.
The showcase of Central European Cinema will take place in the first half of March at the Museum of Film in Munich (March 1 – 11, 2018) and at the Film Gallery in Regensburg (March 4 – 7, 2018). Mittel Punkt Europa will for the second time ask a question „Where is the centre of Europe?“ in an effort to learn more and understand better the German’s neighboring countries to the East.
The pioneers of Slovak New Wave will be presented in the february programme of the Cinematheque of National Audiovisual Institute in Helsinki. The Slovak New Wave showcase will take place between Feb 8 – 21, 2018 and will introduce one documentary and four fiction films made by five Slovak directors in the Sixties and early Seventies.
Two films will represent Slovak cinema at the 47th edition of IFF Rotterdam (Jan 24 – Feb 4, 2018). Feature-lenght fiction The Flower Shop will be internationally premiered in the competition Bright Future and the new film by Jan Švankmajer Insect will be screened in the world premiere within the section Signature.
This year the European Commission developed an Animation Plan, which aims to invigorate the animation industry in the entire EU. The Central and Eastern European region contains great potential that has yet to be tapped. A new initiative titled the CEE Animation Workshop is striving to capture this potential by bringing together independent animated film producers from a total of eighteen countries and showing producers from the CEE region the latest international animation industry trends. The event will be held from 2 to 6 December, 2017 in Ljubljana.
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam will present two Slovak films at its annual 30th edition (November 15 – 26, 2017). Documentary The White World According to Daliborek by Vít Klusák will have its international premiere and a project of Slovak director and producer Peter Kerekes Occupation 1968 (d. Evdokia Moskvina, Linda Dombrovszky, Maria Elise Scheidt, Magda Szymkow, Stephan Komandarev) will be presented in the section IDFA Forum. In addition, The Lust for Power (d. Tereza Nvotová) is part of Docs for Sale
The German Film Festival Cottbus, focused on Eastern and Central European cinema will screen seven Slovak films at its 27nd edition (November 1 – 12, 2017).