Ivan Ostrochovský’s new upcoming film The Spring will be presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market.

Michal Blaško is this year’s Berlinale Talent.

Emerging Producers is a promotional and educational project of the Ji.hlava IDFF, which brings together talented European documentary film producers. Since 2017, following the success of the previous five editions, the programme was extended with an additional four-day meeting in Berlin and producers’ presentation during Berlinale. Slovak Emerging Producer 2022 is Silvia Panáková.

Market screenings schedule includes at European Film Market 2022 includes five Slovak films.

IFF Rotterdam is one of the world’s most renowned film festivals and is known for discovering unique films and young talented directors. In addition to contemporary works, it devotes special place to retrospectives and thematic programmes. It is a great success for Slovak cinema that its 51st edition (26 January – 6 February 2022) will international premiere Eduard Grečner’s digitally restored film Seven Days Every Week (1964) within Cinema Regained section, dedicated to rediscovering forgotten gems of world cinema.

The prestigious Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (28 January – 5 February 2022) features two Slovak short films in the official programme. Director and producer Martin Smatana will present his upcoming film at the Euro Connection co-production forum and for the fourth time the Slovak Film Institute will offer an informational and promotional point for Slovak cinema at the Short Film Market (31 January – 4 February 2022).

The 13th Les Arcs Film Festival will take place from 11 to 18 December 2021, live at the Les Arcs ski resort in France.

During the first week of November, audiences at the Cottbus Film Festival in Germany (2 – 7 November 2021) will have the opportunity to discover Slovak cinema. The 31st festival edition will feature a major retrospective Spotlight: Slovensko, which will present inspiring double bills of cult films from the 1960s and current productions. Three new Slovak films will be screened in two competition sections of the festival, and we will also have representatives in two festival juries.

Two Slovak films, Lines (dir. Barbora Sliepková) and Ordeal (dir. Zuzana Piussi), will have their world premiere at 25th edition of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (October 26 – 31, 2021) which will also showcase work of Karol Plicka, a pioneer of Czech-Slovak documentary cinema.