The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. Taking place from 3–11 July 2026, the festival will once again showcase a strong Slovak presence.

Ivan Ostrochovský is an acclaimed Slovak director and producer who hardly needs an introduction. His work speaks for itself, including films such as: Koza (2015), Servants (2020) or Photophobia (2023), and numerous producing successes: 107 Mothers (2021), Nepela (2025), Broken Voices (2025), and many others. This year, at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (3–11 […]

Screenwriter and director Martina Buchelová captivated the festival circuit with her short student films Green Line (2014) and Magic Moments (2016), which were presented at the Karlovy Vary IFF and the Toronto IFF, respectively. After making a trio of short documentaries about young people in Europe with Debora Pastirčáková, Swaggiest of the Swaggiest (2023), Graduates (2023), and Bosphorus Kid (2024), her feature-length debut Lover, Not a Fighter will have its world premiere in the Proxima Competition at the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary IFF.

Director and screenwriter Anna Domček studied screenwriting at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. She is active in the non-profit organization FILMSTORY, for which she has written several short fiction films and directed the short drama Magda (2024). Together with her husband and co-director Šimon Domček, she will […]

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 […]