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659 articles available in total starting from 27/07/2005. Last article published on 22/08/2025.

Review: My Sunny Maad

Review: My Sunny Maad

Michaela Pavlátová finds a highly original narrative angle from which to tactfully broach the condition of women in Afghanistan in an animated work that’s accessible to wider audiences  

16/06/2021 | Annecy 2021

I, Olga Hepnarova team shooting follow-up project Nobody Likes Me

I, Olga Hepnarova team shooting follow-up project Nobody Likes Me

The writing-directing-producing duo consisting of Tomáš Weinreb and Petr Kazda is shooting a melodrama that ponders existential topics and intersexuality  

11/06/2021 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic/Slovakia/France/Switzerland

EXCLUSIVE: Stop-motion feature Tales from the Magic Garden secures French funding and support from Czech Television

EXCLUSIVE: Stop-motion feature Tales from the Magic Garden secures French funding and support from Czech Television

The stories of Czech author Arnošt Goldflam will come to life in a four-country collaboration with one director from each country attached to helm a part of the portmanteau film  

10/06/2021 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic/Slovakia/France/Slovenia

Two Czech and Slovak animated projects nearing completion to be presented at MIFA

Two Czech and Slovak animated projects nearing completion to be presented at MIFA

The 3D animated feature The Websters and the ambitious adventure flick Journey to Yourland will be seeking distributors and broadcasters at MIFA’s GAP Financing – Meet the Producers event  

09/06/2021 | Annecy 2021 | MIFA

Review: The Sailor

Review: The Sailor

Lucia Kašová's first feature-length documentary tells the story of an extraordinary person who lived his life on his own terms, and ended up alone and lonely  

04/06/2021 | Films | Reviews | Slovakia

Zuzana Piussi  • Director of Unbalanced

Interview: Zuzana Piussi • Director of Unbalanced

“Rather than thematise mental illness and diagnoses, I see a question about the value of a shared world and what holds it together”

The acclaimed veteran Slovak documentarian, who is preparing her feature-length fiction debut, discusses the story of the film and the means of bringing it to life  

02/06/2021 | Febiofest Bratislava 2021 | Febiofest Industry Days

Katarína Tomková  • Producer, kaleidoscope

Interview: Katarína Tomková • Producer, kaleidoscope

“I wouldn’t be able to work on a project unless I knew it inside and out”

Slovakia’s Producer on the Move is looking for the truth in the story  

12/05/2021 | Producers on the Move 2021

Matthieu Darras • Director, Pop Up Film Residency

Interview: Matthieu Darras • Director, Pop Up Film Residency

“We want to offer a creative frame that would facilitate collaborative practices to hatch out at the stage when stories are being invented and films are being written”

The founder and director of Pop Up Film Residency talks about the latest focus of the hub in the Visegrád region  

04/05/2021 | /Czech Republic/Hungary/Poland/Slovakia

Czech filmmaker Jan Prušinovský readies Grand Prix, his biggest project to date

Czech filmmaker Jan Prušinovský readies Grand Prix, his biggest project to date

Three friends hit the road to the Formula One Spanish Grand Prix in a comic road movie  

28/04/2021 | Production | Funding | Czech Republic/Slovakia

Vera Lacková  • Director of How I Became a Partisan

Interview: Vera Lacková • Director of How I Became a Partisan

“I hope my film will inspire historians to keep excavating this strand of history”

The Slovak filmmaker discusses her resistance against oblivion and unearthing a hidden past from Roma history  

26/04/2021 | goEast 2021

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