08-07-2025

What's Slovak in Marseille?

    Slovak Film Institute is pleased to announce the Slovak representation at the 36th edition of FIDMarseille (July 8 – 13, 2025).

    This year, two Slovak directors with their latest films have been selected for the festival program, which focuses on experimental film form and the discovery of new talents.

    Action Item, a feature-length documentary directed by Paula Ďurinová, was selected for the International Competition. The film will be shown in a world premiere shared with the Karlovy Vary IFF (July 4 – 12, 2025).

    Bardo, a short animation directed by Viera Čákanyová, will be screened in world premiere in the Flash Competition.

    Both directors, whose previous films have been shown at major festivals such as the Berlinale or the Karlovy Vary IFF, are presenting their work at the Marseille festival for the first time.

     

    Action Item

    International Competition |

    Director: Paula Ďurinová

    Production: guča films (SK), CLAW (CZ), STVR (SK), Universität der Künste Berlin (DE)
    Slovak producer: Matej Sotník

    Festivals and sales: Kino Rebelde, distribution@kinorebelde.com

    Screenings:
    July 9 | 16.00 | Artplexe Canebiére
    July 11 | 16.00 | Artplexe Canebiére
    July 13 | 13.30 | Artplexe Canebiére

    SK – CZ – DE | 2025 | 69 min. | documentary

    In management, action items are tasks that must be performed to resolve an issue. But what if the issue is not individual, but systemic? In her second feature documentary, director Paula Ďurinová explores how personal experience of burnout shifts into collective sharing and awakening. Set in Berlin, Action Item transforms anxiety into resistance, reframing struggles through shared memory, found footage, and the politics of care. What if the real task is to unlearn, to pause, to reimagine?

     

    Bardo

    Flash Competition |

    Director: Viera Čákanyová

    Production: Somatic films (CZ), guča films (SK)
    Slovak producer: Matej Sotník

    Festivals: Disco Sailing, alexandra@discosailing.com

    Screenings:
    July 9 | 13.30 | Artplexe Canebiére
    July 11 | 16.00 | Artplexe Canebiére
    July 12 | 11.00 | La Baleine
    CZ – SK | 2025 | 28 min. | animation

    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. This journey includes the consciousness of living and non-living entities. Neural network-generated images, crafted into subtle animation, depict transformations into a giant sequoia, the Earth’s core, or the eye of a hurricane.