Key Steps of Slovak Cinema In April, the Slovak Film Institute (SFI) will commemorate its 55th anniversary. In the last five years since it celebrated half a century of its existence, it has experienced dynamic development under its General Director, Peter Dubecký. A modern digitisation workplace has become a part of the SFI, the repertoire […]
Beneath the Story’s Surface Martin Šulík’s new film The Interpreter (Tlmočník) is in distribution to cinemas. It revisits history via the main protagonists in order to show a picture of our society today. A Jewish interpreter and an Austrian teacher represent two different views of the events that took place during the Slovak State. Martin […]
Out – Ágoston’s Journey a er Work from Slovakia to the East of the EU “The sea begins here, but it deffinitely doesn’t end here.” The Slovak-Hungarian-Czech film Out by director György Kristóf is the full-length début from this native of Košice who graduated from FAMU, Prague, in film directing. It was the first film […]
Nina Appeals without Being Literal Young protagonists are all the rage in the current wave of Slovak social drama. Juraj Lehotský’s full-length début The Miracle (Zázrak), Iveta Grófová’s Made in Ash (Až do mesta Aš), Zuzana Liová’s The House (Dom) and last year’s Little Harbour (Piata loď, dir. I. Grófová) or Filthy (Špina) by Tereza […]
The Line of Life Remains Constant Slovak filmmakers remain loyal to thematic realism, they continue in social criticism and in the depiction of the manifold malfunctions of the state. However, reflection is appropriate, the current socio-political situation affords many impulses and, finally, journalists are not the only ones qualified for this role. Art has the […]
