MARKET SCREENING
Shadow Country
Director: Bohdan Sláma
CZ, SK | 2020 | 134 min. | fiction
Festivals & Sales:
Princ Films, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., www.princfilms.com
Screening: MAR 3 16:30 Virtual Cinema 28
BERLINALE TALENTS
Barbora Berezňáková studied at the FTF VŠMU in Bratislava, the New York Film Academy and at the Bellas Artes in Valencia. Her films incorporate an experiment with the film form. She created the documentary and transmedia project Ask Your Parents 68/89 (2019). Her feature debut Never Happened (2019) premiered at the prestigious Warsaw International Film Festival. It reconstructs several fundamental political crimes and cases of post-revolutionary Slovakia in the 1990s while taking an interest in the experience of the individual against a background of political events.
Matúš Krajňák is a director and creative producer. He graduated from the German TV and Film Academy Berlin. His Sex Commercial (2014) was shortlisted for Young Director Award in Cannes, his short drama Monologues (2014) premiered at the Warsaw Film Festival. The feature script Gun Fun was second-rounded for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and placed among the top 15% of entrants to the Academy Nicholl competition. Currently, Krajňák is producing a romantic web-series about queer dating in London and developing a feature script with a similar subject.
EMERGING PRODUCERS 2021
Zora Jaurová is a film producer, cultural and creative industries policy expert, and politician (vice-chairman of the party Progressive Slovakia). She has been involved in EU affairs and cultural policies for several years. The co-author and director of Košice – European Capital of Culture 2013, she is also the President of the Slovak Creative Industry Forum and member of Ateliers du Cinéma Européen. Jaurová works as a film producer and producing partner in Slovak film production company MPhilms.
SCRIPTEAST
In the 2020-21 edition of ScripTeast, Slovak director and scriptwriter Teodor Kuhn develops his film project Trophy. His debut feature By a Sharp Knife (2019) was premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival and won the award for Best Director at Cottbus FF.
PUBLICATIONS
The latest edition of the catalogue
Slovak Films 2020, published in December 2020, includes films produced in 2020 as well as the Slovak Film Guide that provides up-to-date information about audiovisual industry in the country.
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Our brand new catalogue
New & Upcoming Slovak Films – Berlinale Edition 2021, published just before Berlinale 2021, includes upcoming Slovak films that should be completed withing next 12 months.
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MEET THE SLOVAK FILM INSTITUTE
Rastislav Steranka | Director, National Cinematographic Centre | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Lea Pagáčová | Film Promotion – Short Films | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
MEET THE SLOVAK FILM COMMISSION
Zuzana Bieliková | Film Commissioner | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Presentation of Slovak cinema and audiovisual industry at the European Film Market is organized by:
Slovak Film Institute, with financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic,
and Slovak Film Commission, organizational unit of Slovak Audiovisual Fund,
in partnership with Slovak Institute in Berlin.
We very much look forward to meet you!
Lea
& Rastislav & Kristína & Veronika & Tomáš
National Cinematographic Centre | Slovak Film Institute
