This March, the book salon Livre Paris presents 25 Slovak books that have been translated to French. As Bratislava is City of Focus, Kino Visegrad together with The Centre for Information on Literature prepared a film showcase in cinema Christine 21 starting on 14 March. Kino Visegrad Présent: Bratislava. Au bord, au centre lasts for four days, with the last screening on 17 March 2019.
Young Slovak director Michal Blaško will return to Cannes with his upcoming feature-length debut Victim. The project was selected for the 15th edition of L’Atelier, Cinéfondation’s programme which helps emerging filmmakers realize their first feature films.
Slovak short films will be presented at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival (Feb 1 – 9, 2019), one of the world’s largest and most prestigious film festival dedicated to short films. Thanks to co-operation with Czech Film Center and Slovenian Film Centre, Slovak Film Institute will attend the Short Film Market (Feb 4 – 7, 2019) for the first time in history under the umbrella of Central European Cinema.
Slovakia is one of the countries in spotlight of industry platform When East Meets West (January, 20 – 22, 2019). A numerous delegation of Slovak film professionals will be representing the country at the event that is running paralely to 30th Trieste Film Festival (January 18 – 25, 2019). At the same time, the festival will introduce five Slovak films in various sections.
German Film Festival Cottbus, focused on Eastern and Central European cinema will screen seven Slovak films at its 27th edition (November 1-12, 2017).
The 28th edition of Cottbus Film Festival (November 6-11, 2018), focused on Eastern and Central European cinema will introduce Slovak and coproduction films with remarkably high attendance and contemporary films for children.
The upcoming showcase Jornadas de cine eslovaco (Slovak Film Days)kicking off Tuesday, November 6, in Multicine Infanta, Havana, Cuba, will introduce a selection of five successful Slovak films of the past three years, as well as one archive title from the collection of Slovak National Film Archive to Cuban audiences.
Every year, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival organisers show a selection of extraordinary creative documentaries, mainly from Central and East Europe. The 22nd edition of the festival, running from October 25 to 30 this year, will introduce six Slovak and co-production documentaries, most of them in their world or international premiere.
The documentary autumn festival season is ready to start! The 21st edition of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Oct 24 – 29, 2017) kicks off and opens with a Slovak documentary The Lust for Power by Tereza Nvotová.