Director and visual artist Paula Ďurinová returns to the Karlovy Vary IFF with her new documentary Action Item.

Last year, Katarína Gramatová was selected for Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema – a program organized by European Film Promotion and the Karlovy Vary IFF, during which she presented her graduation short film A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places (interview here). Shortly afterwards, she completed her directorial feature debut Promise, I’ll Be Fine, […]

Miro Remo is one of the most celebrated Slovak documentary filmmakers of his generation. His latest film Better Go Mad in the Wild premieres in the Crystal Globe Competition at the Karlovy Vary IFF.

Producer Rastislav Šesták is a graduate of Theatre Directing from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. In 2001, together with the director and producer Peter Bebjak, he founded D.N.A. Production, a production company he continues to lead to this day. His producing portfolio is broad and award-winning, encompassing fiction and documentary films as well […]

Thanks to the film Caravan, Slovakia is once again represented in the program of the Festival de Cannes, whose 78th edition takes place from 13 to 24 May 2025. Other Slovak film professionals will be present at the Marché du Film as well. The Slovak-Czech-Italian feature film Caravan by the first-time director Zuzana Kirchnerová will […]

The feature film Caravan explores timeless themes of freedom, love, and the courage to choose one’s own happiness through the story of a mother, Ester, and her mentally disabled son, David. The Slovak-Czech-Italian co-production, directed by Zuzana Kirchnerová, was filmed based on her own script (co-written with Tomáš Bojar and Kristina Majová), which draws from […]

Programme of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival (February 13 – 23, 2025) includes the world premiere of the Slovak animated feature Tales From the Magic Garden. Multiple Slovak films will also be presented at the market screenings and two Slovak professionals were selected for educational programmes.

Before the premiere of Tales From the Magic Garden at the Berlinale Generation Kplus competition, we spoke with Slovak director Patrik Pašš and producer Juraj Krasnohorský from the company ARTICHOKE.

The EFM attendees can watch five Slovak films at the market screenings.