The upcoming documentary essay Sisters, directed by Tereza Bernátková, returns to the 1950s and 1960s Czechoslovakia. At the time, a group of nuns were relocated to a mental institution to care for the inmates, with one of them spending 13 years capturing life in this isolated women’s community on an 8mm camera. The project, produced […]
On Thursday, April 9, the ceremonial presentation of the 2025 Sun in a Net Awards took place at the Old Market Hall in Bratislava. The national film and television awards are presented by the Slovak Film and Television Academy (SFTA), while the Slovak Film Institute (SFI) serves as a co-organizer and partner of the event.
The 33rd edition of the International Film Festival Febiofest Bratislava (11 – 17 March, 2026) will showcase over sixty films, ten of which are Slovak.
The feature-length documentary If Pigeons Turned into Gold returns from the 76th Berlin IFF with two awards: the Berlinale Documentary Award and the Caligari Film Award.
Two Slovak films will have their world premieres at the 76th Berlinale International Film Festival (February 12 – 22, 2026): the feature-length documentary If Pigeons Turned to Gold and the short animation Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe!.
Andrea Szelesová is a Slovak director and animator. She created her first animated film Malady at the Václav Hollar Higher Vocational School, then continued her studies at FAMU, where she directed the films Mon Ami, the animated documentary 19 20 18, and the puppet film Afternoon Tea. She completed her studies with the film Sisters, […]
The Slovak Film and Television Academy (SFTA) will present the national awards for the best films and creative achievements of Slovak cinematography for the fourteenth time. The national film awards The Sun in a Net for the year 2025 will be given in April 2026. A total of 38 film and television works were submitted. […]
Matej Sotník is an established Slovak producer whose production company guča films has already achieved many successes. He already took part in the Berlinale Forum section in 2023 with the project Notes from Eremocene, and this year his co-produced film If Pigeons Turned to Gold has made it into the same section. Together with the […]
The European Children’s Film Association (ECFA) will present awards for the best films of 2025 in three categories – feature film, documentary, and short film – during the Berlinale festival.