Interconnecting film professionals from Visegrad Countries

Visegrad Accelerator is aimed at interconnecting professionals from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. Over the last eleven years, Visegrad Accelerator has become a respected platform, which initiates and expands various film activities in the Visegrad framework. Ji.hlava IDFF – the leading documentary film event in the Central and Eastern Europe – has become a birth place of creative initiatives and meetings of film professionals, critics, film festivals’ and film institutions’ representatives from Central European countries.

Ji.hlava IDFF has always emphasized the idea of Visegrad cooperation – creating space for promotion and support of Visegrad national cinemas. It has become one of the most important meeting points where Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Polish film professionals encounter, present their work and develop future collaborations among themselves as well as with other documentary film professionals from around the world.

Visegrad Accelerator is a platform for film professionals from Visegrad countries within the Ji.hlava Industry Programme and aims to discover and support new talents from Central Europe, introduce them to the international industry community and thus accelerate their creative growth. It creates a unique environment where V4 filmmakers can initiate and develop their documentary projects (Inspiration Forum & Ji.hlava New Visions Forum & Co-production Market), present their producer’s vision and develop European co-productions (Emerging Producers), share experience (Festival Identity) and discuss their needs and know-how (V4 Panels, Visegrad Open Sessions, and Conference on Ethics in Documentary Film) – all in a relaxed, creative and non-competitive Ji.hlava environment.

Apart from the activities taking place at the Ji.hlava IDFF, we help the V4 filmmakers in introducing their most remarkable upcoming films to the international audiences (Docu Talents from the East at Sarajevo FF).

Since 2023, Ji.hlava IDFF has been according the Visegrad Award for the region’s best documentary film in the festival’s Opus Bonum competition.

The detailed programme of this year's Visegrad Accelerator will be published before the 29th Ji.hlava IDFF, in October.

The partners of the Visegrad Accelerator 2025 are:

Wladyslaw Slesicki Film Foundation
MADOKE (Hungarian Documentary Association)
Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival
Slovak Film Institute
Obala Art Centar
The Center for Modern Information Techniques and Visual Arts
Doc-Air

Visegrad Accelerator is supported by the International Visegrad Fund.