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1387 articles available in total starting from 04/10/2002. Last article published on 02/07/2025.

Jitka Kotrlová • Producer, Frame Films

Interview: Jitka Kotrlová • Producer, Frame Films

“It’s very hard to find a distributor for art-house films”

Interview with Jitka Kotrlová, producer for Czech company Frame Films and selected for the 2020 Emerging Producers programme  

27/02/2020 | Emerging Producers 2020

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

Review: Numbers

Review: Numbers

BERLINALE 2020: Directed remotely by Oleh Sentsov, this dark, dystopian tale portrays the ultimate form of imprisonment  

23/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Berlinale Special

Amazon and Netflix among the biggest spenders in the Czech Republic

Amazon and Netflix among the biggest spenders in the Czech Republic

International productions spent a total of €363 million in the country in 2019  

19/02/2020 | Industry | Market | Czech Republic/USA

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

Czech set decorator Nora Sopková gets an Oscar nomination

Czech set decorator Nora Sopková gets an Oscar nomination

The Czech artist may just bring home the coveted statuette from the US film industry’s biggest awards gala  

06/02/2020 | Oscars 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

Old-Timers voted the best Czech film of 2019 by domestic critics

Old-Timers voted the best Czech film of 2019 by domestic critics

The revenge road-dramedy has won three awards, while the chamber comedy Owners followed close behind  

03/02/2020 | Festivals | Awards | Czech Republic

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

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