Silent Days marks Pavol Pekarčík’s first sole feature film directing credit even though he is an experienced filmmaker who made multiple short films.

Gregor Valentovič is currently in his final year of Film Directing studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. His previous short film, The Test (2016) premiered at Premiers Plans Film Festival in Angers, France and was awarded at several short film festivals. Apart from short films, he directed several music videos and commercials.

The Barnabáš Kos Case, the second and last satirical film in Solan’s oeuvre, is based on a short story by Peter Karvaš.

Juraj Jakubisko made a film about present times in the course of a couple of months, directly in the boiling point of post-revolution re-arrangements of Czecho-Slovakia.

Martin Gonda is a graduate of the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In Cannes he will present his film Pura Vida.

In 2017, Michal Blaško introduced his bachelor degree film Atlantis, 2003 in the Cinéfondation section of the 70th Festival de Cannes. Now he is back to present his upcoming feature debut Victim in L’Atelier, together with producer Jakub Viktorín.

ScripTeast is a year-long training programme designed specifically for experienced scriptwriters from Central and Eastern Europe. For the 2018-2019 edition, Tereza Nvotová and Barbora Námerová have been selected to further develop their film project The Nightsiren.

Following successful presentation of the upcoming documentary by Lucia Kašová The Sailor at the 24th Meeting Point – Vilnius, Slovak film producer Nazarij Kľujev will take part in this year’s edition of Marché du Film Industry Workshop.

Market screening of the Slovak film at Marché du Film.