March 24 – 25, 2025
Bratislava Industry Days (BID) is the professional platform of the International Film Festival Febiofest Bratislava. Its goal is to create ties between the Slovak and international film professional, especially in the Central European region, and at the same time to reflect on contemporary audiovisual production and industry in Slovakia in panel discussions.
Works in Progress, the main event of BID, is a public presentation of upcoming films from Central European region. This year, Slovak and international audience can get to know 16 projects in various stages of development/production – a mixture of fiction, documentary, and animated films, both features and shorts.
Projects are up for five awards. International jury will hand the Best Febio Pitch Award worth €3000. Jury members are: Sigrid Hadenius-Ebner (Uppsala Short Film Festival), Patrizia Mancini (Sheffield DocFest), and Nektarios Sakkas (IFF and IDF Thessaloniki). Partner awards include Cineuropa Work in Progress Award, which offers coverage of the awarded project throughout the various stages of development and distribution by Cineuropa; TATINO FILMS Award, which offers a consultancy according to project’s needs as part of Pop Up Films or the First Cut Lab programme; MIDPOINT Consulting Award, which provides an in-depth script consultancy with a MIDPOINT Institute expert; and KFF Industry Award, an invitation to Krakow Film Festival’s CEDOC Co-Production Market.
Public programme also includes three discussions.
Bratislava Industry Days is organized by the Association of Slovak Film Clubs and the Slovak Film Institute with financial support by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund. Partners: Cineuropa, TATINO FILMS, MIDPOINT Institute, Krakow Film Festival, Slovak Audiovisual Producers’ Association, Association of Independent Producers, Disco Sailing, Association of Slovak Cinematographers, Creative Europe Desk Slovakia, and Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival.
You can find more information on the Febiofest website: https://febiofest.sk/en/bid/
Programme
Monday, March 24
10:00 Works in Progress – projects in production & post-production (presentation, in English) – Cinema Lumière K1 (Industry accreditations only)
14:00 Short film as a message in a bottle (discussion, in English) – Cinema Lumière K2 (free entry)
16:00 The state of the filmmaking infrastructure in Slovakia (discussion, in Slovak) – Cinema Lumière K2 (free entry)
18:00 Industry drink with BID & IDFF Ji.hlava – Sundeck (Industry & Guest accreditations only)
Tuesday, March 25
10:00 Works in Progress – projects in development & production (presentation, in English) – Cinema Lumière K1 (Industry accreditations only)
14:00 Co-operation in the audiovisual industry in Slovakia: Finding balance and sustainability in the film profession (discussion, in Slovak) – Cinema Lumière K2 (free entry)
18:30 Awards Ceremony & screening of The Wayfarer and The Fall – Kino Lumière K1 (invitation only)
22:00 Afterparty – Luna Bar (Industry & Guest accreditations only)