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.

The Slovak Film and Television Academy (SFTA) will once again honour the most remarkable films and creative accomplishment of Slovak cinema. Slovak National Film Awards The Sun in a Net 2018 will be announced Friday, April 6, 2018 during the Gala ceremony, broadcasted live on TV channel Jednotka (RTVS).

The 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 Slovak 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.

The Interpreter, the film about two men dealing with their past decisions, will be world premiered in the Berlinale Special section.

Short serbian-slovak animation by Ana Nedeljković and Nikola Majdak Jr. Untravel will be presented in world premiere at Berlinale 2018 at the Generation 14plus section.

After the record-breaking year of 2016, Slovak cinema is again hitting the peak of attendance. In 2017, a total of 6,692,871 viewers attended Slovak cinemas.

Little Harbour, successful film by Iveta Grófová competes for the overall Award for the Best European Children & Youth Film of 2017, which will be announced by ECFA – European Children’s Film Association during Berlinale 2018.

Four Slovak films are presented at European Film Market 2018.