In the 2024/2025 academic year, we developed and carried out the first edition of the Peer-to-Peer Film Criticism Workshop for the Visegrad Film Forum in Bratislava, conducted by students of Film and Television Studies at UL AGRFT under the mentorship of Assistant Professor Maja Krajnc. This year, the workshop took place in Bratislava for the second time, with Lina...
Interview with the directors Anton Augsten and Lea El Attal of All that we say to each other (2025) At Visegrad Film Forum in Bratislava, young directors Anton Augsten and Lea El Attal introduced their short documentary all that we say to each other (2025). Anton and Lea study at the University of Television and Film in Munich (HFF München), where they are currently in the third year ...
How can you capture love? Not just the butterflies and passion, but all the intricate layers of it. The film How to Fall Out of Love (Jak się odkochać, 2025) by Varvara Zarytska grabbed the camera and tried to get us as close as possible to love and capture its intimate, raw, and naked parts. The camera could be perceived as the main protagonist. We can observe a unique perspective of...
The short student film White to Red (თეთრიდან წითლამდე, 2024), directed by Georgian filmmaker Liza Chaduneli, explores the theme of catcalling and the violation of personal boundaries that women often face. Rather than addressing the issue in a direct way, the director approaches it through carefully constructed visual symbolism and the use of colour, which gradually reveals the meani...
Interview with director Felix Freidlein and screenwriter Johannes (Johnny) Rockstuhl on Walz Alone (Walzer Allein, 2025) The fiction short film Walz Alone (Walzer Allein, 2025), directed by Felix Freidlein from HFF film school in Munich, was screened in Bratislava at the Visegrad Film Forum at the Film and Television Faculty VŠMU. After the projection, we talked with Felix and Johnny ...
Interview with director Mariam Giorgadze (TAFU Tbilisi, Georgia) The film Mania (2025) by Mariam Giorgadze focuses on a character experiencing an intense psychological and emotional obsession. The film explores how powerful inner desire can take control of someone’s behaviour and examines the emotional and mental consequences of such a state. The story unfolds through a dark atmospher...
Walz Alone (Walzer Allein, HFF München, 2025), the short film by Felix Friedlein and Johannes Rockstuhl, has a shaky, lonesome, anti-musical starting point inside an empty — or what seems to be an empty — music bar. The building seems old and nostalgic. The lighting is soft, the furniture is worn down, the signs are handwritten. The protagonist, simply called ‘Gast’ (guest in English), ent...