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

Review: Servants

Review: Servants

BERLINALE 2020: Slovak filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovský has crafted an uncompromising piece of arthouse cinema with thriller elements in this story of the Catholic Church in communist Czechoslovakia  

03/03/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Encounters

Agnieszka Holland  • Director of Charlatan

Interview: Agnieszka Holland • Director of Charlatan

“Love can be stronger than any of our weaknesses”

BERLINALE 2020: We met up with FAMU-educated Polish director Agnieszka Holland to discuss Charlatan, her film about a 1930s Czech healer  

29/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Berlinale Special

Review: Charlatan

Review: Charlatan

BERLINALE 2020: In her new film, Agnieszka Holland finds herself a new real-life hero. And then makes him human  

28/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Berlinale Special

Ivan Ostrochovský  • Director of Servants

Interview: Ivan Ostrochovský • Director of Servants

“I want the audience to understand how easy it is to end up on the wrong side of history”

BERLINALE 2020: We chatted to Slovak documentary filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovský, who has premiered Servants, his sophomore fiction feature after the much-celebrated Koza  

25/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Encounters

Viera Čakányová  • Director of FREM

Interview: Viera Čakányová • Director of FREM

“I deliberately reduced any human element in the ‘narrative’ to the bare minimum”

BERLINALE 2020: Slovakian filmmaker Viera Čakányová talks about the constraints of anthropomorphic thinking while she was preparing her experimental sci-fi documentary FREM  

24/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Forum

Adam Oľha  • Co-director of Athanor – The Alchemical Furnace

Interview: Adam Oľha • Co-director of Athanor – The Alchemical Furnace

“We had an opportunity to witness the process of creation from up close and over a long period of time”

We talked to Adam Oľha, one of the co-directors of the documentary Athanor – The Alchemical Furnace, about the process of capturing how foremost Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer creates art  

10/02/2020 | IFFR 2020

The Witcher to hunt demons in Slovakia for its second season

The Witcher to hunt demons in Slovakia for its second season

The second season of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Netflix fantasy series will be partially shot in Slovakia and is expected to hit small screens in 2021  

06/02/2020 | Production | Funding | Slovakia/Czech Republic/USA/UK

TV series The Exorcist in the making in Slovakia

TV series The Exorcist in the making in Slovakia

The upcoming supernatural crime series will mix the “war on evil” with domestic lore  

30/01/2020 | Production | Funding | Slovakia/Czech Republic

Mira Fornay  • Director of Cook, F**k, Kill

Interview: Mira Fornay • Director of Cook, F**k, Kill

“There is no logic in hurting someone you love”

Cineuropa talked to Slovakian director Mira Fornay, who is about to show her third feature, Cook, F**k, Kill, at the IFFR  

23/01/2020 | IFFR 2020 | Voices

Communism and the Net or the End of Representative Democracy ready for the festival circuit

Communism and the Net or the End of Representative Democracy ready for the festival circuit

The last remaining active director of the Czech New Wave, Karel Vachek, has finished the longest-ever Czech film, which clocks in at six hours  

10/01/2020 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic/Slovakia

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