Slovakia | 20 min.
fiction | drama | in pre-production

Director: Anna Ahaliieva
Producers: Tereza Kravecová, Emília Širotníková (FTF VŠMU, SK)

Inspired by true events, 9 Months sheds light on the ongoing deportations of Ukrainian children to Russia – an atrocity still happening today. When 18-year-old Ksenia learns that her younger brother has been adopted by a Russian family, she embarks on a dangerous journey to reclaim him, facing borders, bureaucracy, and propaganda that has turned him against her. Her fight is not only for her brother, but for his stolen childhood and the bond that war tried to erase.

Slovakia | 15–20 min.
documentary | essay, LGBTQ+ | in production

Director: Radek Ševčík
Producer: Natália Uhrinová (FTF VŠMU, SK)
Co-Producer: Radek Ševčík (tucnak.art, SK)

In 1941, Leo Kowal, a Slovak Nazi officer, was sent to a concentration camp for having sex with his male colleague. His death left no evidence. Essayistic collage of personal letters, Gestapo interrogation transcripts, and parodic adaptation of SS gay-persecution manual reveal how homophobia lives in the language to this day. A young gay filmmaker retraces Kowal's story, filling the gaps in memory and cold evidence with his intimate thoughts. He asks what it means to inherit such documents – and how to confront shame around gay sex while examining a figure who was both criminal and victim.

Slovakia, Czech Republic | 90 min.
fiction | dark comedy | in development

Director: Alica Bednáriková
Producers: Jakub Viktorín (nutprodukcia, SK), Valeria Borkovcová, Tomáš Hrubý (nutprodukce, CZ)

Johana and Marika (both 16) are inseparable. Their bond thrives on rivalry and provocation. At an elite Slovak high school, they pull pranks and compete for attention, constantly testing how far they can go. Marika, already sexually experienced, flaunts it and treats Johana like she’s still a child. Tired of living in her shadow, Johana becomes desperate to prove herself. When Marika proposes a dangerous game to see who can seduce their new teacher first, Johana agrees, unaware of how quickly the game will cease to be one.

Slovakia | 5 min.
animation | psychological horror, folk horror | in production

Director: Alisa Ladeyshchikova
Producer: Samuel Pivarči (FTF VŠMU, SK)

Lonely and ill, Anna spends Christmas Eve in isolation, rejected by villagers and carolers. In desperation, she calls for the mysterious “Dakto,” a being standing between life and death. He draws her into a haunting dance that promises belonging but leads her toward the final embrace of death. By morning, the house is empty, and crows peck at the bowl of porridge left at her door.

Ukraine | 75 min.
documentary | personal essay, observational | in development

Director: Alla Mitiukova
Producer: Alla Mitiukova (UA)
Co-Producers: Giorgi Mukhadze, Giorgi Kobalia (Terra Incognita, GE)

A Ukrainian filmmaker born in Siberia travels across the Caucasus, Moldova, and Eastern Ukraine to confront the ruins left by her country of birth, meeting people marked by occupation, erasure, and fractured identity – reflections of her own story.

Austria, Germany | 100 min.
fiction | drama | in development

Director: Özgür Anil
Producer: Christian Bachmann (Wega Film, AT)
Co-Producer: Dorothe Beinemeier (Red Balloon Film, DE)

After Ibrahim and Emre lose their family in a fire, the brothers try to overcome their trauma through their strict faith in God. They receive support from the secular couple Leyla and Bernhard, who take the brothers in. While Emre becomes part of a new community with the help of his foster parents, Ibrahim completely isolates himself. He becomes increasingly radicalized and believes he can bring order back into his shattered world by carrying out a terrorist attack.

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 100 min.
fiction | road movie, drama | in late development

Director: Terézia Halamová
Producers: Natália Pavlove (Other Stories, CZ), Matej Sotník (guča films, SK)

Rudo is an irresponsible male stripper who is about to go on his first dance tour through small towns of Central-Eastern Europe with a group of strippers. He finds comfort in his new profession, where people pay for his company, granting him a temporary escape from his fear of abandonment and hurt. But his world begins to crumble, as the other group members seem to be going their separate ways. Spontaneous romantic experiences on the road don’t fulfil him as he’d expected, so he starts looking for euphoria somewhere else, mainly in drugs and endless parties.

Slovakia, Czech Republic | 18 min.
documentary, experimental | hybrid | in post-production

Director: Kvet Nguyễn
Producers: Michaela Kaliská, Erika Paulinská (NINJA film, SK)
Co-Producer: Wanda Kaprálová, Klára Mamojková (CLAW films, CZ)

Oanh, a Slovak-Vietnamese woman, recalls her 1990s childhood with Hana in Czechoslovakia, where xenophobia began shaping post-socialist life. Limits to Our Pain is a mosaic documentary combining archival materials, photographs, and staged scenes to reconstruct an individual past against the backdrop of historical change. The film gives voice to a minority experience and shows how even a small story can hold up a mirror to society.

Hungary | 75 min.
documentary | creative documentary | in development

Director: Daniel Washington
Producer: Timea Huszár (ULab, HU)

Upon digging herself out a mass grave, Angéla Lakatos becomes the matriarch of the only Roma family to survive the extermination of her city’s community during the Holocaust. Her story, told through her descendants who themselves grapple with inherited trauma, weaves together with an amateur historian’s efforts to shine a light on the nearly-forgotten grave site. Through their struggles, Underneath the Waves traces the echoes of this killing into the modern day.

Ukraine, France | 20 min.
fiction | black comedy | in development

Director: Vyacheslav Turyanytsya
Producers: Inna Lastochkina (Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema, UA), Quentin Just (Vents Contraires, FR)

Timur, a 35-year-old National Police officer in Kyiv, goes undercover to a private kinky party to gather video evidence against its organizers for allegedly running a place of debauchery. Struggling with the tension between duty and desire, he navigates a world of masked hedonism. As the lines between his professional role and personal experience blur, Timur confronts unexpected emotions. Against the backdrop of Ukraine's political landscape, the investigation takes an unforeseen turn, challenging his sense of morality and identity.

Ukraine | 20 min.
documentary | creative docu-fiction | in production

Director: Marina Baibarza
Producers: Marina Baibarza (Process Films, UA)

A Ukrainian film director drives a taxi through a war-torn Kyiv. As she and her passengers speak to the city with their fears, memories, and hopes, she searches for one quiet moment to hear herself again.

Czech Republic, Slovakia | 95 min.
fiction | eastern, drama | in development

Director: Michal Baláž
Producers: Ivan Ostrochovský (escadra, SK), Vanessa Biermannová (IN Film Praha, CZ)

In a desolate border zone of a totalitarian state, a priest turned smuggler leads a fallen professor and a hunted young outlaw through hostile wilderness toward freedom. Pursued by soldiers led by a sadistic and vengeful Captain, and driven by their own guilt, they face betrayal, violence, and a fierce young woman of the land – Deva – whose presence blurs salvation and doom. The Zone is a stark, poetic, political western about survival, faith, and the borders men build to keep others out – and themselves trapped within. It is about crossing the line beyond which there is no way back.

Slovakia | 15 min.
documentary | experimental | in production

Director: Eva Sajanová
Producers: Michaela Kaliská, Erika Paulinská (NINJA film, SK), Hana Adámiková (FTF VŠMU, SK)

She Just Walked into the Room and She Doesn’t Know Why She Did It explores Alzheimer’s disease and the care of elderly family members from the perspective of a young woman, a family member “who doesn’t yet have to worry about it.” The short film-performance explores the dilemma of staying or leaving and the issue of unpaid care work through the metaphor of stones. Until when is a memory lapse funny and innocent, and at what point does it have the power to change absolutely everything?

Slovakia, Czech Republic, France | 85 min.
documentary | in development

Director: Veronika Kováč
Producer: Maia Martiniak (Mediapulz, SK)

RAW explores the complexity of surrogacy – a practice in which a woman carries a child for intended parents. Moving between the lived reality of a surrogate mother, the memories of a daughter born through surrogacy, and the intimate testimony of an infertile woman longing for a child, the film offers a raw experience of what it means to desire a child, to carry one, and to be born within an agreement where intimacy and commerce collide. Three women who never meet are linked by emotions and memories, offering a female-centred perspective on the value of children and women's bodies, and on how seemingly simple decisions can impact many lives in their small world.

Austria, Slovakia | 90 min.
documentary | in post-production

Director: Kristína Leidenfrostová
Producers: Jürgen Karasek, Alice Karasek (Soleil Film, AT)
Co-Producer: Matej Sotník (guča films, SK)

When disturbing testimonies of police brutality against Roma settlers spread from a nearby village in eastern Slovakia, Igor – a Roma survivor of a 2013 police raid – steps in to help. He must face not only images of violence that begin to return to his mind, but also the limits of what someone on the margins of society can do, including his efforts to get his young nephew Martin out of the settlement. Through children’s battle games and the magical dimension of recurring nightmares, the film highlights the importance of collective memory and understanding in a deeply divided society.

Poland, Switzerland | 90 min.
fiction | music, drama | in development

Director: Katarzyna Iskra
Producer: Dorota Schleiss (ASF Studio, PL)
Co-Producer: Giacun Cadiff (ZAS Film AG, CH)
Sales Agent: Keiko Funato (Alpha Violet, FR)

Róża, a talented pianist, suffers a crisis when anxiety and disturbing sounds from a medical exam block her playing. She retreats to her mountain hometown, reconnecting with Teresa, a childhood friend who leads a girls’ choir. Fascinated by her intuitive singing, Róża tries to save her talent. After conflict with Teresa’s husband, Róża takes her to a quarry, where her voice awakens something in Róża’s own. When Teresa disappears, Róża is accused of obsession and interrogated but released. Listening to silence, she discovers a new music blending Teresa’s voice, nature, and her own, finding harmony.