At the 79th edition of Festival de Cannes (May 12 – 23, 2026), Slovakia will be represented at the Marché du Film (May 12 – 20, 2026) across three different programmes, as well as in the Producers on the Move programme.
The Crystal Planet Director: Arsen Anton OstojićCZ – SK – HR | 2026 | 97 min. | animation On the recently colonized Crystal Planet, 11-year-old Rea befriends a dinosaur-like cub named Burgy, who was separated from his mother by a mutant monster. As Rea attempts to reunite Burgy with his mother, she faces a dangerous […]
Alica Bednáriková, a director and screenwriter, is the first Slovak to take part in the prestigious La Résidence programme, which is a Cannes Film Festival platform. During her residency in Paris, she worked on developing the script for her feature debut Attention Whores, a co-production between nutprodukcia (SK) and nutprodukce (CZ). The residency will culminate in a presentation before the CNC committee, which will take place during this year’s Cannes Film Festival at the Gray d’Albion Beach Hotel on Wednesday, May 13, from 3 p.m.
Agata Novinski is a Slovak producer working in the field of animated film. With her producing debut – the feature-length puppet film Living Large – she achieved significant success. The film premiered at the prestigious Annecy festival, where it won the Jury Award in the Contrechamp section, received the ECFA Award, and was also nominated for the European Film Awards. This year, she presented the animated film Tourists together with its director Mária Kralovič at the world’s largest short film festival in Clermont-Ferrand. Agata Novinski currently leads the Slovak Association of Animated Film Producers (APAF).
The upcoming documentary essay Sisters, directed by Tereza Bernátková, returns to the 1950s and 1960s Czechoslovakia. At the time, a group of nuns were relocated to a mental institution to care for the inmates, with one of them spending 13 years capturing life in this isolated women’s community on an 8mm camera. The project, produced […]
Two Slovak films will have their world premieres at the 76th Berlinale International Film Festival (February 12 – 22, 2026): the feature-length documentary If Pigeons Turned to Gold and the short animation Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe!.
Andrea Szelesová is a Slovak director and animator. She created her first animated film Malady at the Václav Hollar Higher Vocational School, then continued her studies at FAMU, where she directed the films Mon Ami, the animated documentary 19 20 18, and the puppet film Afternoon Tea. She completed her studies with the film Sisters, […]
Matej Sotník is an established Slovak producer whose production company guča films has already achieved many successes. He already took part in the Berlinale Forum section in 2023 with the project Notes from Eremocene, and this year his co-produced film If Pigeons Turned to Gold has made it into the same section. Together with the […]
The European Children’s Film Association (ECFA) will present awards for the best films of 2025 in three categories – feature film, documentary, and short film – during the Berlinale festival.