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World & International premieres
| Opus Bonum |
Director: Diana Fabiánová
Producer: Silvia Panáková
Production: Dayhey (SK)
Co-production: VIAFILM (SK), Feel (SK)
Festivals & sales: filmdelights
Director: Diana Fabiánová
Producer: Silvia Panáková
Production: Dayhey (SK)
Co-production: VIAFILM (SK), Feel (SK)
Festivals & sales: filmdelights
SK | 2025 | 82 min. | documentary
An intimate story of a married couple who try to break out from the established patterns of behaviour and put their relationship to the true-false test. The documentary is a deep and intimate probe into the partner relationship, its dynamics and fragility.
An intimate story of a married couple who try to break out from the established patterns of behaviour and put their relationship to the true-false test. The documentary is a deep and intimate probe into the partner relationship, its dynamics and fragility.
| Opus Bonum |
Director: Barbora Chalupová
Producers: Pavla Klimešová, Monika Lošťáková, Simona Hrušovská, Veronika Zúbek Kocourková
Production: Helium Film (CZ), Super film (SK)
Co-production: Soul Food (BG)
Director: Barbora Chalupová
Producers: Pavla Klimešová, Monika Lošťáková, Simona Hrušovská, Veronika Zúbek Kocourková
Production: Helium Film (CZ), Super film (SK)
Co-production: Soul Food (BG)
CZ – SK – BG | 2025 | 90 min. | documentary
They say you can’t put a price on love—on OnlyFans, you can. This thought-provoking documentary reveals the consequences of selling and exposing your identity online and explores how virtual relationships impact real-life ones.
They say you can’t put a price on love—on OnlyFans, you can. This thought-provoking documentary reveals the consequences of selling and exposing your identity online and explores how virtual relationships impact real-life ones.
| Short Joy |
Director: Tereza Smetanová
Producer: Tereza Tokárová
Production: FTF VŠMU (SK)
Co-production: CinePunkt (SK)
Director: Tereza Smetanová
Producer: Tereza Tokárová
Production: FTF VŠMU (SK)
Co-production: CinePunkt (SK)
SK | 2025 | 29 min. | documentary
Seablindness explores the environment in which land meets the sea, the interstitial space of ports where capital is concentrated and distributed. Endless depos, cranes capable of moving hundreds of tons with disturbing precision, gigantic ships ready to sail to the other side of the world.
Seablindness explores the environment in which land meets the sea, the interstitial space of ports where capital is concentrated and distributed. Endless depos, cranes capable of moving hundreds of tons with disturbing precision, gigantic ships ready to sail to the other side of the world.
| Fascinations |
Director & producer: Paula Malinowska
Director & producer: Paula Malinowska
SK | 2025 | 11 min. | experimental
Branching Light and Flickers of a Dawn explores the mysterious synchronized flashing of fireflies, blending scientific research with artistic interpretation through ecofiction.
Branching Light and Flickers of a Dawn explores the mysterious synchronized flashing of fireflies, blending scientific research with artistic interpretation through ecofiction.
| Czech Joy |
Director: Hana Nováková
Producer: Kateřina Traburová
Co-producer: Peter Kerekes
Production: LaDamplinque (CZ)
Co-production: Peter Kerekes (SK), Czech Television (CZ), GURU films (CZ), FAMU (CZ)
Director: Hana Nováková
Producer: Kateřina Traburová
Co-producer: Peter Kerekes
Production: LaDamplinque (CZ)
Co-production: Peter Kerekes (SK), Czech Television (CZ), GURU films (CZ), FAMU (CZ)
CZ – SK | 2025 | 76 min. | documentary
Does something like a totem animal exist? And if so, can its call send even a European on a journey following its tracks? In this moose odyssey, the director follows moose-obsessed people (“amoosed”) across the planet.
Does something like a totem animal exist? And if so, can its call send even a European on a journey following its tracks? In this moose odyssey, the director follows moose-obsessed people (“amoosed”) across the planet.
More films in the programme
Bardo
| Czech Joy |
Director: Viera Čákanyová
According to Tibetan tradition, Bardo is the state of existence after death before the next birth. In the eponymous film, director Viera Čákanyová visualizes the experience of being in darkness, where one can experience the continuous morphing of matter into surprising forms.
| Czech Joy |
Director: Viera Čákanyová
According to Tibetan tradition, Bardo is the state of existence after death before the next birth. In the eponymous film, director Viera Čákanyová visualizes the experience of being in darkness, where one can experience the continuous morphing of matter into surprising forms.
Voice of the Forest
| Czech Joy |
Director: Zuzana Piussi
The forest is cultivated with a saw. At least that’s still what forestry schools teach. But what does a healthy forest actually need? Foresters and hunters see the forest as an agricultural commodity and nature as something that must be constantly regulated and managed. On the other side stand conservationists – advocates of non-intervention, who believe the forest can take care of itself without us.
| Czech Joy |
Director: Zuzana Piussi
The forest is cultivated with a saw. At least that’s still what forestry schools teach. But what does a healthy forest actually need? Foresters and hunters see the forest as an agricultural commodity and nature as something that must be constantly regulated and managed. On the other side stand conservationists – advocates of non-intervention, who believe the forest can take care of itself without us.
Chronicle
| Czech Joy |
Director: Martin Kollar
Chronicle captures everyday stories to create a collective portrait of contemporary reality, aiming not only to document the present but also to build an archive for the future. Through its imagery, it reveals absurd routines and peculiar habits, as well as our tendency to lean on systems we simultaneously question.
| Czech Joy |
Director: Martin Kollar
Chronicle captures everyday stories to create a collective portrait of contemporary reality, aiming not only to document the present but also to build an archive for the future. Through its imagery, it reveals absurd routines and peculiar habits, as well as our tendency to lean on systems we simultaneously question.
Change My Mind
| Czech Joy |
Direcotr: Robin Kvapil
If you felt the war in Ukraine is a hoax, how far would you go for truth? In the documentary feature, Change My Mind, director Robin Kvapil takes three Czechs, each sympathetic to Putin’s Russia, and they embark on a journey for truth, straight into a war zone.
| Czech Joy |
Direcotr: Robin Kvapil
If you felt the war in Ukraine is a hoax, how far would you go for truth? In the documentary feature, Change My Mind, director Robin Kvapil takes three Czechs, each sympathetic to Putin’s Russia, and they embark on a journey for truth, straight into a war zone.
1+1+1
| Czech Television Documentaries |
Director: Ondřej Vavrečka
The triad played a fundamental role in the creation of the world, shapes the dialectic of development, and echoes in our hesitation — yes, no, I don’t know.
| Czech Television Documentaries |
Director: Ondřej Vavrečka
The triad played a fundamental role in the creation of the world, shapes the dialectic of development, and echoes in our hesitation — yes, no, I don’t know.
Better Go Mad in the Wild
| Czech Television Documentaries |
Director: Miro Remo
Franta and Ondra, eternal children and inseparable twins, live in a quietly magical world with their beloved animals. They share every moment, every thought, every routine. Outwardly they appear identical, yet inside they are two entirely different souls. Over time, their closeness begins to suffocate.
| Czech Television Documentaries |
Director: Miro Remo
Franta and Ondra, eternal children and inseparable twins, live in a quietly magical world with their beloved animals. They share every moment, every thought, every routine. Outwardly they appear identical, yet inside they are two entirely different souls. Over time, their closeness begins to suffocate.
Industry programme
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Thieves of Ashes, dir. Lumír Košař, David Ticháček
Ji.hlava New Visions Market
Sheepfold, dir. Nora Štrbová
Who Cares, dir. Ina Ivanceanu
Emerging Producers
Tomáš Gič
Thieves of Ashes, dir. Lumír Košař, David Ticháček
Ji.hlava New Visions Market
Sheepfold, dir. Nora Štrbová
Who Cares, dir. Ina Ivanceanu
Emerging Producers
Tomáš Gič
Book launch
On October 28, before the screening of the film Bardo, the book launch of Jana Dudková’s book Človek na okrAI. Postantropocén Viery Čákanyovej, published by the Slovak Film Institute in cooperation with the Institute of Theatre and Film Studies of the Center for Art Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, will take place.
