Alica Bednáriková, a director and screenwriter, is the first Slovak to take part in the prestigious La Résidence programme, which is a Cannes Film Festival platform. During her residency in Paris, she worked on developing the script for her feature debut Attention Whores, a co-production between nutprodukcia (SK) and nutprodukce (CZ). The residency will culminate in a presentation before the CNC committee, which will take place during this year’s Cannes Film Festival at the Gray d’Albion Beach Hotel on Wednesday, May 13, from 3 p.m.

Agata Novinski is a Slovak producer working in the field of animated film. With her producing debut – the feature-length puppet film Living Large – she achieved significant success. The film premiered at the prestigious Annecy festival, where it won the Jury Award in the Contrechamp section, received the ECFA Award, and was also nominated for the European Film Awards. This year, she presented the animated film Tourists together with its director Mária Kralovič at the world’s largest short film festival in Clermont-Ferrand. Agata Novinski currently leads the Slovak Association of Animated Film Producers (APAF).

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. […]