The Slovak animated film Living Large, made in Czech-Slovak-French coproduction and directed by Kristina Dufková, has been nominated for the 2024 European Film Awards in the Best Animated Film and the Best European Film categories. The film, based on Mikaël Ollivier’s novel La Vie, en gros, follows the story of Benjamin, a thirteen-year-old boy navigating […]
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) lasts nearly the entire month of November (8–24 November 2024), and this year again, many Slovak films will be screened in Estonia.
The Film Festival Cottbus has begun (November 5 – 10). This year, it also features a rich representation of Slovak films, also thanks to a section focusing on works by young Czech female directors.
For the first time in the history of Slovak cinema, a new soundtrack is being released for the legendary animated film The Bloody Lady. Electroacoustic composer Claire Rousay presents her album The Bloody Lady, offering her unique musical interpretation of Viktor Kubal’s iconic 1980 animated film.
Film Ms. President won the main award at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. It is the third Slovak film in the last five festival editions that got the top prize.
Dok Leipzig, International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (October 28 – November 3, 2024), has long been an important event for the cinema of Central and Eastern Europe. This year, too, it will present several Slovak films in its program, two of which are competing for the Golden and Silver Doves.
As always, the International Documentary Films Festival in Jihlava gives a lot of space to Slovak cinema. It will not be any different at the 28th edition (October 25 – November 3, 2024), whose opening film will be Ms. President.
The 25th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival One World (October 18 – 27, 2024 in Bratislava; October 28 – November 3 online) gives special attention to Slovak documentary films focusing on current social problems thanks to its competition section, while the program for film professionals, Impact Days, helps not only film projects to systematically work with impact campaigns.
Five short films from the rich animated works of Viktor Kubal will be screened this month at the Kaohsiung Film Festival, an international film festival in Taiwan. The event, which is the largest international platform for short films in Taiwan, will take place from 12 to 27 October 2024, and Slovak classic cinema will be […]