Growing up in and around Sydney in the 1950s I knew nothing about films other than those made in English until around 1955 when I […]

In what is now a well established CaSFFA tradition, it brings us great pleasure to be able to make our first program announcements for our […]

Esteemed Australian historian and author Humphrey McQueen recently attended the Czech and Slovak Film Festival when it visited the National Film and Sound Archive in […]

One thing that became immediately clear to the jury members as we began to delve into the CaSFFA program was that this was to be […]

Voyeurism is a popular theme in film. That is presumably no accident since the mere act of sitting in a darkened theatre and watching people’s […]

For the first time in our four year run, CaSFFA presents a series of unique new short films in If You Go into the Woods […]

Slovakia’s answer to Bill Cunningham! That may be how some see fit to describe Zuzana Mináčová, the heavily influential photographer whose story is the centre […]

It feels strange to call Theodor Pištěk a costume designer, when in an interview for The Washington Post, back in 1985, he claimed, “I want […]

Getting to know Hayley, and getting to know Czech and Slovak cinema I felt a little bit guilty initially on agreeing to be a CaSFFA […]

Like many of a certain generation, I began my film writing life on a blog while simultaneously working the sort of retail and hospitality jobs […]

In the five years that I’ve been fortunate enough to watch movies for a living, I’ve likewise been blessed with the opportunity to attend a […]

Horror festers within the shadows, we’re told, but what if it makes its way into the sunshine? In the myriad cultures she has long haunted, […]

What’s a film festival without guests to liven things up? We’ve got a range of remarkable people coming in from outside of the core festival team […]

Welcome, one and all, to the 4th Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFFA), our biggest and boldest event yet, with its theme of […]