The Film and Television Faculty of The Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava is the oldest and most prestigious film school in Slovakia. It provides education to especially gifted students, further develops their talent and artistic abilities, and leads them to a deepening of their individual personal expression. In this way it contributes to cultivation in the audio-visual area and helps maintain awareness of the nation’s high cultural level.

The Film and Television Faculty places emphasis on the adoption of high professional standards in all the fundamental film professions, and guides its students to deep theoretic and practical skills. In accredited study programs at all three education levels, space for the creative development of individual artistic talent is provided to them.The Film and Television Faculty is a meaningful cultural institution whose public presentation of student film projects significantly enriches Bratislava’s cultural environment and brings Slovakia major response at international film festivals and art presentations.

The study in the artistic programs is based above all on the creativity of the student of live-action, documentary and animated films. Pedagogues approach the students on an individual basis in the attempt to support their distinct talent, their artistic and personal development, the originality of their world-view, their individual signature and their desire to bring onto the screen courageous stories of the world in which they live.Our students presented their films at international events such as Cannes, Berlinale, Toronto, Munich, Athens, Vienna, Manchester, Hong Kong, Florida, Madrid, Delhi, Seoul, Moscow and Rio de Janeiro.

2026 FILMS

Confession

The word trauma has many shades. The documentary Confession opens up the topic of sexual harassment in the church, which the director has experienced first-hand. She looks back at the world before the trauma, and searches for answers herself to the questions of whether she will be able to come out of it after some time, and whether she will find the courage to tell her parents about it.

Director: Rebeka Bizubová
DoP: Tereza Havadejová
Editor: Peter Koška
Sound: Daniel Valovič
Music: Rebeka Bizubová
Production: Emília Širotníková

How to Listen to Fountains

This film is about public space. This film is about the destruction of culture. This film is about fountains that have had enough. What would happen if fountains could talk?

Director: Eva Sajanová
DoP: Hugo Činčala
Editor: Rastislav Fabian
Sound: Štefan Tomko, Olesia Stepura, Eva Sajanová
Music: God and Eve
Production: Anna Mária Zimová

Bubble

Every day, a small cleaning lady battles fear for her life in a world overrun by violence. She constantly witnesses giants opressing small people. Fear and anger consumes her so deeply that she decides to act. She risks everything to flood the head of a giant boss using an effervescent tablet that can unleash a colorful, sparkly wave of destruction. However, she finds out that there is a room full of people like her inside the head. Her plan almost doesn´t work out but fate helps her in the end.

Director: Wanda Przeworska
Editor: Wanda Przeworska
Sound: Martin Merc, Andrej Kubík, Alfonz Kobielský
Music: Lukáš Lančarič, Lukáš Kapiaš
Animation: Wanda Przeworska, Marianna Lipárová
Production: Martina Bobáňová