SLOVAK POP UP

The Slovak Pop Up programme offers Slovak filmmakers with film projects in the stage of development the opportunity to benefit from the presence of the Pop Up Film Residents and their mentors. The Slovak Pop Up takes place in Bratislava and is financially supported by Slovak Audiovisual Fund.

The program is open to feature-length and short films alike, regardless of whether they are fiction, documentary or animation.

Mária Pinčíková

Director, writer

Mmabatho Kau

Mentor

Project: 2,4M

Logline: “Only when we die will it end.” Tehching Hsieh

Olívia Jánošíková

Writer

Mert Dilek

Mentor

Marty Müller

Director, producer

Project: Summer Lamb

Logline: A researcher travels back in time trying to restore the Earth’s climate. An unexpected meeting happens and turns everything upside down. What would happen if the future collided with the past?

Teodor Kuhn

Director, writer

Philippe Barrière

Mentor

Project: Realities

Logline: An individualistic real estate agent is assigned by his ruthless father to sabotage a homeless shelter for redevelopment — but the people he meant to betray begin to change him, forcing a choice between his career and the only community that ever made him feel at home.

Kateřina Hroníková

Director, writer

Mmabatho Kau

Mentor

Project: Dreaming Differences

Logline: In a world where sleep can be permanently removed, Petr gives up his dreams to fulfill the capitalist dreams of success. But then he meets Ema, for whom dreams provide an escape from everyday reality.

Adam Pavlovič

Writer

Mert Dilek

Mentor

Project: This is our house!

Logline: A young mother has to protect her family and their new home when it turns out that the house they just bought carries a dark secret

Patrik Pašš

Writer

Philippe Barrière

Mentor

Project: The Fall

Logline: On the verge of financial and professional ruin and with nowhere else to go, an aging actor returns to his childhood country house, now occupied by his hermit sister whom he estranged years ago. Armed with dreams of a swift return to stardom, he soon realizes he’s the only one reading that script.

Roman Pivovarník

Writer

Mert Dilek

Mentor

Project: #nofilter

Logline: After completing a self-development course called #nofilter, eighteen-year-old Hugo embarks on a quest to find his authentic self—only to discover it’s not as easy as he thought.