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346 articles available in total starting from 10/10/2005. Last article published on 18/09/2025.

GoCritic! launches call for participants for its new season of workshops

GoCritic! launches call for participants for its new season of workshops

Ten participants will be selected for workshops of film journalism and criticism, including a video component, at four member festivals of the Animation Festival Network  

18/09 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2025/Anifilm Liberec 2026/Animafest Zagreb 2026/Fest Anča 2026

Episode 79: Living Large (Czech Republic/Slovakia/France)

Episode 79: Living Large (Czech Republic/Slovakia/France)

The producers of the film by Kristina Dufková are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their movie, which has received Eurimages support  

30/08 | The Co-production Podcast

Tereza Nvotová • Director of Father

Interview: Tereza Nvotová • Director of Father

“What got me intrigued, even obsessed, was that moment when everything turns and you’re dropped into a parallel universe”

VENICE 2025: The Slovak director takes on a macabre subject, following a decent man and father into a spiral of horror, after a memory lapse changes his and others’ lives  

29/08 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Review: Father

Review: Father

VENICE 2025: Tereza Nvotová proves that you can, and always should, make a compulsively watchable film about the most harrowing subject  

29/08 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Paula Ďurinová • Director of Action Item

Interview: Paula Ďurinová • Director of Action Item

“I wanted to recognise how the politics of destruction, violence and a crumbling democracy affect our mental health”

The Slovak-born, Berlin-based director talks about the making of her film, and her shift from character-driven storytelling to a collage approach  

17/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

Miro Remo • Director of Better Go Mad in the Wild

Interview: Miro Remo • Director of Better Go Mad in the Wild

"I focused on the wild elements within the twin brothers and was guided by magic moments"

We sat down with the Slovak director, who won the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary and who revealed that he went into €50,000 worth of debt when making his last two films  

15/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Ondřej Provazník • Director of Broken Voices

Interview: Ondřej Provazník • Director of Broken Voices

"We wanted to create a world that you can trust - one that would be fragile and gentle, yet also threatening and suspenseful"

We caught up with the Czech director to discuss his Special Jury Mention-winning film, a deeply affecting work about a scandal in a girls' choir  

15/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Review: Better Go Mad in the Wild

Review: Better Go Mad in the Wild

Miro Remo's newest genre-defying hybrid work provides an insight into two twins living in the wild, a kind of life that might seem unbelievable for many viewers  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Competition

Review: Action Item

Review: Action Item

Paula Ďurinová’s observational-essayistic hybrid documentary reframes mental health problems as a systemic condition, rather than an individual struggle  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Proxima

Review: Duchoň

Review: Duchoň

Slovak director Peter Bebjak charts the rise and fall of a Czechoslovak pop singer and examines state-sanctioned stardom behind the Iron Curtain  

11/07 | Karlovy Vary 2025 | Special Screenings

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