Last year, the Council of Europe’s cinematographic fund also supported several Slovak co-production projects. Most of the funds – 280,000 Euro – went to Jan Švankmajer’s full-length film The Insects (Hmyz) in a participation of the Slovak company PubRes with the Czech partner Athanor. The Slovak- Russian-Czech project The Cellar (Pivnica) directed by Igor Voloshin […]
Last year Slovak entities received support amounting to 273,224 Euro within the Creative Europe support programme in the Culture sub-programme and 1,034,420 Euro in the MEDIA sub-programme. Production companies were exceptionally successful last year in the MEDIA sub-programme – they received a total of 190,000 Euro in the Support for Development of Single Projects scheme; […]
The Sun in a Net National Film Awards granted by the Slovak Film and Television Academy (SFTA) were dominated last year by Eva Nová, the feature début by documentary filmmaker Marko Škop. This drama about an ageing actress, who became an alcoholic, became alienated from her family and now wants to get close again, won […]
The organisational structure of the Slovak Film Institute (SFI) consists of National Film Archive (NFA), the core unit in the area of audiovisual heritage protection and restoration, and the National Cinematographic Centre (NCC) as the core unit for public access to the audiovisual heritage and current cinema. Recently, both of the units have gotten new […]
Slovakia collaborates on several international workshops and training programmes for authors of audiovisual works. Below, we provide brief information on at least some of them. At the same time, we indicate the current state of film education for children and young people. Several international workshops are (at least in part) organised in Slovakia and they […]
Support for Audiovisual Industry is a programme launched by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund in autumn 2014 with the aim of inducing interest in making audiovisual works in Slovakia, supporting the development of infrastructure of the Slovak audiovisual industry and increasing its international competitiveness. Modifications to its basic conditions are currently under consideration. The main idea […]
At a time when lively discussions on distribution are held in the film industry, some Slovak and co-production films are also making their way onto the screens of world cinemas. The Teacher (Učiteľka) directed by Jan Hřebejk, Koza by Ivan Ostrochovský, I, Olga Hepnarová (Ja, Olga Hepnarová) by the directing duo Tomáš Weinreb and Petr […]
About the Queen of Local Power Even if, despite their much-appreciated efforts, domestic filmmakers have, to date, not been altogether successful in their feature expeditions into the communist period, it is wholly understandable that the well-proven Czech creative team of Jan Hřebejk and Petr Jarchovský should have grasped the topic of the past in their […]
A Hole in the Head, a Film about Memories Human memory acts as a processing instrument for retaining experience. It consists of recollections, something similar to rumours in the brain. It is not a very precise instrument. But it remains important, even though it often displays a tendency to create its own fictitious worlds of […]
Disease, Face, Country – 5 October There are themes that we, as viewers, are generally not much in the mood for. They render us uneasy, disturb us, and highlight our own mortality. They require neither our civil attitude nor, in effect, our opinion. Solely acceptance. Maybe that is the reason why serious diseases, mostly with […]
