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Czech Republic / Slovakia


330 articles available in total starting from 10/10/2005. Last article published on 19/06/2025.

Made in Ash

A young woman caught up in a socio-economic downward spiral in an industrial city on the Czech-German border. Slovak candidate for the 2013 Oscar for Best Film in a Foreign Language.  

30/11/2012 | Films | Reviews

Interview: Iveta Grófóva • Director

“Most people pretend to not see what happens there”

The Slovak filmmaker Iveta Grofova screened her feature debut Made in Ash at the 53rd Thessaloniki International Film Festival. She explains why she chose to explore a social drama.  

13/11/2012

Not your average Gypsy

The experienced Slovak director Martin Šulik (The City of Sun) has made the very watchable (if not exactly original) film Gypsy, which had its world premiere in the Competition of the Karlovy Vary...  

08/07/2011 | Karlovy Vary 2011 | Competition | Slovakia/Czech Republic

Interview: Zuzana Liová • Director

Interview

Zuzana Liová’s Karlovy Vary-selected title The House shows how socialist thinking still haunts ordinary people in Slovakia.  

03/07/2011

Three fresh talents for Forum

Three films from the Czech Republic and Slovakia selected for the Forum sidebar of the Berlinale (February 10-20) – two of them directorial debuts – explore the stress on personal lives caused by...  

26/01/2011 | Berlinale 2011 | Czech Republic/Slovakia

Czech and Slovak documentaries at SXSW

Short Slovak documentary Arsy-Versy and Czech feature-length documentary Phantom of Liberty II have been selected this year's South By Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas (March...  

25/02/2010 | Festivals | Slovakia/Czech Republic

Interview: Radim Spacek • Director

“We just wanted to make a really dark film”

Interview with a 36-year-old Czech director, a graduate of the famous FAMU Film School , who returns to cinema after 11 years spent working in television and documentary  

05/02/2010

Walking Too Fast

A relentless and often brutal portrayal of a bad system and the even-worse cop who makes it his playground  

05/02/2010 | Films | Reviews

Local films take a break in favor of blockbusters

King Kong has a lot of screen enemies and needs to fight in order to survive but in the Czech and the Slovak box office it appears, he is given the perfect conditions to be a clear winner. Peter...  

16/12/2005 | Releases | Czech Republic | Slovakia

Slama and Sulik in the run

The nominations in the run for that much sought after Academy Award which eludes Central Europe since Kolya, were announced last week in Czech Republic and Slovakia. As was expected the winner of...  

10/10/2005 | Oscars 2006 | Czech Republic | Slovakia

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