Some films conceived at the Barrandov Studios in Prague have had Slovak themes, actors, directors, and occasionally language, while Prague-based filmmakers and actors have sometimes worked in Slovakia. The center of Slovak filmmaking has been the Koliba studio (whose formal name changed several times) in Bratislava. The themes of recent films have been mostly contemporary. Children's films were a perennial genre from the 1960s through the 1980s produced mainly as low-budget films by Slovak Television Bratislava. One of them, Ján Kadár's and Elmar Klos' The Shop on Main Street ( Obchod na korze, 1965), gave Slovak (as well as Czech and generally Czechoslovak) filmmaking its first Oscar. The percentage of comedies, adventures, musicals, sci-fi films and similar genres has been low by comparison to dramas and historical films that used to include a notable subset of social commentaries on events from the decade or two preceding the film. The same applies to blockbusters like Juraj Jakubisko's A Thousand-Year Old Bee ( Tisícročná včela, 1983). Even in the field of experimental film-making, there is frequently a celebration of nature and tradition, as for example in Dušan Hanák's Pictures of the Old World ( Obrazy starého sveta, 1972).

These include rural settings, folk traditions, and carnival. Yet there are a certain number of recurring themes that are visible in the majority of the important works.

The cinema of Slovakia encompasses a range of themes and styles typical of European cinema.

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