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687 articles available in total starting from 27/07/2005. Last article published on 14/09/2026.

Slovak Pop Up announces five projects for its eighth edition

Slovak Pop Up announces five projects for its eighth edition

The Bratislava-based development programme continues to support filmmakers across generations, formats and cinematic approaches, while welcoming three international residents in 2026  

14/09 | Pop Up Residencies 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

CEE Animation opens call for the CODA – Co-Development Animation Awards

CEE Animation opens call for the CODA – Co-Development Animation Awards

The new funding initiative is designed to support early-stage animation development and strengthen cross-border collaboration across the region  

17/08 | Industry | Market | Estonia/Croatia/Hungary/ Kosovo/Poland/Slovakia/Slovenia

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: To Die to Live

Review: To Die to Live

Yuliia Hontaruk's emotionally direct, 12-year portrait of three Ukrainian fighters reveals how war endures not only in the trenches, but in homes, families, language and memory  

08/07 | Karlovy Vary 2026 | Special Screenings

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