The prestigious Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (27 January – 4 February 2023) will present student film Liquid Bread by Alica Bednáriková in the International Competition, while the Slovak Film Institute will offer an informational and promotional point for Slovak cinema at the Short Film Market (30 January – 1 February 2023) for the fifth time.
The 52nd edition (25 January – 5 February 2023) of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, one of the world’s renowned festivals, will feature a world premiere of new Slovak drama Power and three digitally restored films from the collections of the National Film Archive of the Slovak Film Institute.
The Trieste Film Festival is one of the largest festivals dedicated to Central and Eastern European cinema. The 34th festival’s edition (Januray 21 – 28, 2023) will screen a total of seven feature-length and four short Slovak films.
The European Film Academy (EFA) has nominated two Slovak films in the prestigious selection of the best of European cinema released between June 2021 and the end of May 2022. Petr Kerekes’ film 107 Mothers is nominated in the European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI category, while Diana Cam Van Nguyen’s short Love, Dad got nomination in the European Short Film category.
Cottbus Film Festival (November 8 – 13, 2022), which is one of the most important events focusing on Eastern European cinema, starts today. It will bring 12 Slovak films.
Prestigious Amsterdam documentary film festival IDFA (9 – 20 November 2022) will present one Slovak film in this year’s program and there is even more Slovak participants at the industry events.
26th edition of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (October 25 – 30, 2022) will honour Dušan Hanák with Contribution to World Cinema Award. Festival will also present 19 Slovak films, multiple of them in world premiere.
65th edition of International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (17 – 23 October 2022) will present nine Slovak film in the program.
The Lumière Festival in Lyon (15 – 23 October 2022) is one of the largest and most respected international festivals of the classic film. Slovak cinema in this year’s program will be represented by Martin Hollý’s digitally restored film A Case for the Defence Attorney (1964). This is the fifth digitally restored film from the collections of the National Film Archive of the SFI that festival has selected for its program.