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

Adam Martinec  • Director of Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

Interview: Adam Martinec • Director of Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

“Humour opens up the audience's heart, making it easier to smuggle in the heavier moments”

The director discusses his use of the pig-slaughter tradition to explore generational and gender tensions, plus his influences from the Czechoslovak New Wave  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Review: Lapilli

Review: Lapilli

Paula Ďurinová intertwines personal grief with environmental contemplation, offering a meditative documentary essay that reflects on loss and resilience through images of geological formations  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Proxima

Review: Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

Review: Our Lovely Pig Slaughter

Debuting filmmaker Adam Martinec delivers a probe into Czech identity and generational conflict set against the fading tradition of domestic pig slaughter  

02/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Review: The Hungarian Dressmaker

Review: The Hungarian Dressmaker

Iveta Grófová takes us to wartime Bratislava in a solid period drama based on Peter Krištúfek’s novella Ema and the Death’s Head  

01/07/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Competition

Katarína Gramatová  • Director of A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places

Interview: Katarína Gramatová • Director of A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places

“I am not a fan of documentary films that just capture the moment, where there is no vision or ideas from a filmmaker”

The Slovakian director talks about gaining the trust of the protagonist of her short documentary, which will screen as part of EFP’s Future Frames at Karlovy Vary  

01/07/2024 | Future Frames 2024

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Karlovy Vary entry Waves

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Karlovy Vary entry Waves

Urban Sales sells Czech helmer Jiří Mádl's film, a thriller that looks back at the period leading up to the invasion of the Czech Republic by the Warsaw Pact in 1968  

25/06/2024 | Karlovy Vary 2024 | Special Screenings

Review: Diplodocus

Review: Diplodocus

The first Polish film in 3D, directed by Wojtek Wawszczyk, transports us to the fantastical world of a little dinosaur who takes on the unknown in order to find his parents  

19/06/2024 | Annecy 2024

Kristina Dufková • Director of Living Large

Interview: Kristina Dufková • Director of Living Large

“What I found most appealing about the book was Ben’s inner world, and that was also the most complicated aspect to put on screen”

The Czech director explains what drove her to adapt the book by French author Mikaël Ollivier and the importance of music in her film  

12/06/2024 | Annecy 2024

Review: Living Large

Review: Living Large

In her debut feature film, Czech director Kristina Dufková tells the story a bright teenager who’s grappling with an excess of kilos which is weighing heavily on his heart  

12/06/2024 | Annecy 2024

Wanda Adamik Hrycová • Producer, Wandal Production

Interview: Wanda Adamik Hrycová • Producer, Wandal Production

“Cross-country cooperation also pushes you out of your comfort zone”

The producer talks the role of independent funding in revitalising Slovak film post-2013, her experiences with complex international co-productions, and more  

10/05/2024 | Producers on the Move 2024

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