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371 articles available in total starting from 10/10/2005. Last article published on 20/08/2026.

Michal Blaško readies Central European western Cowgirl

Michal Blaško readies Central European western Cowgirl

The Slovak filmmaker’s sophomore feature, a coming-of-age drama, follows a teenage horse rider whose faith in the adults around her unravels amid a rural land dispute  

20/08 | Production | Funding | Slovakia/Czech Republic/Hungary

EXCLUSIVE: Low Light Films picks up Karlovy Vary Proxima Grand Prix winner Lover, Not a Fighter

EXCLUSIVE: Low Light Films picks up Karlovy Vary Proxima Grand Prix winner Lover, Not a Fighter

The Barcelona-based sales agent is representing international rights for Martina Buchelová’s Slovak-Czech coming-of-age tragicomedy  

20/07 | Industry | Market | Slovakia/Czech Republic

Review: The Crystal Planet

Review: The Crystal Planet

Sourced from a story by Dušan Vukotić, Arsen Anton Ostojić’s animated feature portrays ecology, responsibility, friendship and adventure clashing with greed and corruption  

20/07 | Pula 2026

Ivan Ostrochovský • Director of Only Beautiful Things to Look At

Interview: Ivan Ostrochovský • Director of Only Beautiful Things to Look At

"The topic of forced sterilisation is universal, not only a phenomenon of socialist times"

The Slovak director talks about his film, which revisits one of the darkest chapters of Czechoslovakia's history, the state's policy of forced sterilisation of Romani women  

14/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Martina Buchelová • Director of Lover, Not a Fighter

Interview: Martina Buchelová • Director of Lover, Not a Fighter

“The film’s documentary feel represents an aesthetic choice, not a lack of control“

The Slovak director reflects on how her film looks to reframe serious social and generational concerns through an accessible romantic form  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

Šimon Holý • Director of Chica Checa

Interview: Šimon Holý • Director of Chica Checa

“This film has become a highly political appeal for individual freedom”

The Czech director chatted with us about turning queer identity, drag culture and rural family comedy into mainstream cinema, shaped by “radical positivity” and “radical hope”  

09/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: City of Fathers

Review: City of Fathers

A thirty-year-old manchild sets on a punk rock odyssey in search of his biological father in Zdeněk Tyc’s latest feature  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

Review: Lover, Not a Fighter

Review: Lover, Not a Fighter

Martina Buchelová’s feature film debut turns a turbulent romance into a loose, semi-documentary-style, Gen Z mosaic of intimacy, anxiety and comic disarray  

07/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

Review: Only Beautiful Things to Look At

Review: Only Beautiful Things to Look At

Ivan Ostrochovský’s careful unraveling of biopolitical control centres on the friendship between a white female doctor and a Romani nurse in 1980s Czechoslovakia  

06/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Competition

Review: 33 Steps

Review: 33 Steps

Slovak filmmakers Anna and Šimon Domček's first feature is a docufiction hybrid about a Roma man suffering from trauma after a brutal attack that almost killed him  

06/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Proxima

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