Fifth edition of touring Czech & Slovak Film Festival in Australia is heading to its last stop. After the screenings in Melbourne, Canberra and Perth, festival will take a place in Sydney (May 16 – 20, 2018) and will introduce seven feature and six short films.
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (May 3 – 8, 2018), one of the world’s most respected short film events, will present a programme of six Slovak archive shorts entitled Traces of Experiment in Slovak Short Film.
International Festival of Animated Films Anifilm in Třeboň, Czech Republic (May 1 – 6, 2018) will introduce work of multiple generations of Slovak animators. The festival will also host a platform for film professionals Visegrad Animation Forum.
The 31st edition of the film festival Finále Plzeň (April 19 – 24, 2018) brings a programme full of Slovak films. The international jury will select the best films in three categories and choose the winners of the Golden Kingfisher Award.
The 18th edition of Film Festival goEast (April 18 – 24, 2018) will present a sample of Central and Eastern European Cinema to German audience. Czech-Slovak co-production Ice Mother by Bohdan Sláma is selected for Competition and creative documentary Occupation1968, produced by Slovak documentarian Peter Kerekes will be introduced in world premiere.
25th edition of International Film Clubs Festival Febiofest (March 15 – 29, 2018) will kick off in a few days. Touring festival starts in Bratislava and then continues to Banská Bystrica, Kežmarok, Košice, Levice, Martin, Poprad, Prešov, Prievidza, Trenčín and Trnava.
The showcase of Central European Cinema will take place in the first half of March at the Museum of Film in Munich (March 1 – 11, 2018) and at the Film Gallery in Regensburg (March 4 – 7, 2018). Mittel Punkt Europa will for the second time ask a question „Where is the centre of Europe?“ in an effort to learn more and understand better the German’s neighboring countries to the East.
Winter Film Festival 4 elements will take a place in Banská Štiavnica at the end of winter (February 23 – 25, 2018). The festival will traditionally enrich the long weekend with live-action films, documentaries, animations, master classes, concerts and visual art. The topic of this edition – The Beginning – will bring the Slovak shorts into the programme, as most filmmakers start their careers with making the short films.
The pioneers of Slovak New Wave will be presented in the february programme of the Cinematheque of National Audiovisual Institute in Helsinki. The Slovakian New Wave showcase will take place between Feb 8 – 21, 2018 and will introduce one documentary and four fiction films made by five Slovak directors in the Sixties and early Seventies.