The Czech-French-Slovak film directed by Michaela Pavlátová My Sunny Maad will be presented in the Slovak premiere at the International Film Festival Cinematik in Piešťany. 

My Sunny Maad is the story of Helena alias Herra, a young Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan, and decides to move along with him to post-Taliban Afghanistan. Yet she he has no idea what kind of life awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor of the family she is about to integrate into. A liberal grandfather, an adopted child who is highly intelligent and Freshta, who would do anything to escape her husband’s violent grip.

The film will be presented in Slovak cinemas from October 14, 2021 thanks to the distribution company ASFK.

The film My Sunny Maad is the co-production by the Czech Republic, France and Slovakia. The production of the film was financially supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, the Czech Film Fund and the grant program of the Council of Europe Eurimages.

The film trailer can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbbTDWDR4j8

The Czech-French-Slovak film directed by Michaela Pavlátová My Sunny Maad will be presented in the Czech premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2021. It will be presented in the Great Hall in the Special Presentation section.

My Sunny Maad is the story of Helena alias Herra, a young Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan, and decides to move along with him to post-Taliban Afghanistan. Yet she he has no idea what kind of life awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor of the family she is about to integrate into. A liberal grandfather, an adopted child who is highly intelligent and Freshta, who would do anything to escape her husband’s violent grip.

The film will be presented to Slovak audience in its premiere in September 2021, and will then be distributed to the cinemas by the distribution company ASFK.

The film My Sunny Maad is co-production by the Czech Republic, France and Slovakia. The production of the film was financially supported by the Audiovisual Fund, the Czech Film Fund and the grant program of the Council of Europe Eurimages.

The film trailer can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbbTDWDR4j8

Our feature films has been honoured during the awards ceremony of the 45th Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Czech-French-Slovak animated drama My Sunny Maad, directed by Michaela Pavlátová, received the Jury Award.

Trailer you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbbTDWDR4j8

For the first time Award for the Best Pitch was funded byFixafilm, a Dolby Vision certified postproduction facility based in Warsaw (Poland) with branches in Los Angeles (USA) and Canberra (Australia). Fixafilm offers a full range of post production service and has post-produced Prisoners of the  Ghostland (2021),  Hopper/Welles (2020), My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To (2020), Systrar 1968 (2018), Menashe (2017), The Persian Connection (2016), Yarden (2016) and restored over 220 productions, including classic films of masters like Peter Weir, Sergei Parajanov, Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Zulawski, and Dario Argento.  

More information about the awarded projects you can find here.

Our new family film Martin and the Magical Forest will be released in Slovak cinemas on August 26, 2021.

Exactly on Children’s Day, we are publishing the official trailer for the new family film Martin and the Magical Forest. In addition to human characters, the first shots also show magical forest creatures that come to life when we are not looking. The main children’s characters are Sebastian Pöthe and Jozefína Krycnerová, in the roles of adults Vasil Fridrich, Aleš Petráš, Kristýna Boková or Ester Geislerová . They will appear as camp leaders and parents. “Martin and the Magical Forest is a summer film with a holiday atmosphere. We had our own real camp to shoot, and we all soon lost sight of the differences between filming and playing, between real leaders and actors, so we actually actually shot one real section,” says director Petr Oukropec.

In addition to the real atmosphere of the summer camp, forest creatures are important for the film, who will influence the fate of the entire camp. “Some of them are cheerful and others may be dangerous. Keep in mind that if you trip over a root in the woods or a pine cone falls on you, it’s not a coincidence and it’s not even a playful squirrel. It’s them and they show who’s in forest at home, ” says Petr Oukropec, who, as an acclaimed producer, gave rise to a number of acclaimed Czech films of the last twenty-five years and, as a director, made the films Blue Tiger and In Your Dreams!.

Our new trailer you can find here.

Upcoming animated film Heart of a Tower by Peter Budinský will be presented at the Gap Financing Meeting at the largest market for professionals in the field of animated film MIFA in Annecy.

The film is a Slovak-Czech-Belgian co-production, and should be theatrically released at the end of 2021.

Upcoming animated documentary by Joanna Kozuch Once There Was a Sea… will be presented at the presentation forum of animated films at the Krakow Film Festival.

The event is a presentation of Polish short animated films at the last stage of production. The representatives of the selected projects will talk about their films, before they are included in the programmes of film festivals in Poland and abroad. Each year international animated film industry professionals, such as festival programmers, distributors, sales agents and commissioning editors, participate in the pitching and one-on-one meetings afterwards.

More information about the presented projects can be found here.