The 52nd edition (25 January – 5 February 2023) of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, one of the world’s renowned festivals, will feature a world premiere of new Slovak drama Power and three digitally restored films from the collections of the National Film Archive of the Slovak Film Institute.
The Trieste Film Festival is one of the largest festivals dedicated to Central and Eastern European cinema. The 34th festival’s edition (Januray 21 – 28, 2023) will screen a total of seven feature-length and four short Slovak films.
The Lumière Festival in Lyon (15 – 23 October 2022) is one of the largest and most respected international festivals of the classic film. Slovak cinema in this year’s program will be represented by Martin Hollý’s digitally restored film A Case for the Defence Attorney (1964). This is the fifth digitally restored film from the collections of the National Film Archive of the SFI that festival has selected for its program.
During the first week of November, audiences at the Cottbus Film Festival in Germany (2 – 7 November 2021) will have the opportunity to discover Slovak cinema. The 31st festival edition will feature a major retrospective Spotlight: Slovensko, which will present inspiring double bills of cult films from the 1960s and current productions. Three new Slovak films will be screened in two competition sections of the festival, and we will also have representatives in two festival juries.
Two Slovak films, Lines (dir. Barbora Sliepková) and Ordeal (dir. Zuzana Piussi), will have their world premiere at 25th edition of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (October 26 – 31, 2021) which will also showcase work of Karol Plicka, a pioneer of Czech-Slovak documentary cinema.
More than 20 Slovak animated films are heading to the Romanian capital. The 16th edition of the Animest International Animation Festival (October 8 – 17, 2021) will focuse on Slovak cinema and present contemporary animation as well as feature-length classic film Brigand Jurko (1976) by Viktor Kubal from the collections of the National Film Archive of the Slovak Film Institute (SFI).
The 28th Art Film Fest Košice International Film Festival (June 23 – 27, 2021) will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first Slovak feature film, Jánošík (1921), with a special screening. Moreover, the new Slovak films will not be left out either, several of the films will have their premiere.
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.
The Austrian Film Museum in Vienna presents Animace/Animácia – 100 Years of Czechoslovak, Czech and Slovak Film Animation organized in cooperation with the National Film Archive of the Slovak Film Institute (NFA SFI) and the Czech National Film Archive (NFA). The restrospective takes place from 3 September until 19 October 2020.