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. […]

The feature-length animated film Tales From the Magic Garden (dirs. David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar, Jean-Claude Rozec) was nominated in two categories for the 2025 European Film Awards. The only Slovak film was nominated from among the films shortlisted in the first round, based on the votes of 5,400 members of the European Film […]

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, […]

In the programme of the 55th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 29 – February 8, 2026), two Slovak films will be presented in their world premieres.

The 33rd edition of the International Film Festival Febiofest Bratislava (11 – 17 March, 2026) will showcase over sixty films, ten of which are Slovak.

Three new Slovak documentary films, all competing in the Slovakia and Czechia for Human Rights section, will premiere at the 26th edition of the One World International Film Festival

The International Film Festival Cinematik Piešťany will screen the classic film Custom Tailored Death by Martin Hollý, Jr., as well as multiple new Slovak films at its 20th anniversary edition (September 10 – 15).

In the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, from October 17 to November 2, the Filmoteca Capitólio will host a showcase titled Heroines of Czechoslovak Film. The event will feature more than forty classic feature and short films that highlight the presence of women in Czech and Slovak cinema. Representing Slovak cinematography at the showcase will be the first lady of animated filmmaking, Jaroslava Havettová.

The prestigious Lumière Festival in Lyon is one of the most important events dedicated to presenting films from the golden treasury of world cinema. Several Slovak films have already been presented at this festival in the past; this year, Slovak cinema will be represented by the digitally restored film The Bells for the Barefooted (1965) […]

As part of Ireland’s annual Culture Night, celebrating its 20th anniversary on 19 September 2025, twelve Slovak short animated films will be presented online under the title Slovak Animated Shorts. Thanks to a curated selection by the Slovak Film Institute (SFI), audiences will have the opportunity to explore the history of Slovak animation and view […]