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How to Listen to Fountains

2025
color / Slovakia / 16 mm – 4K / Digital 5.1 / 10’ 07”
prod. Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava

This film is about public space. This film is about the destruction of culture. This film is about fountains that have had enough. What would happen if fountains could speak?

Awards
Premio Nest @ San Sebastián IFF 2025
Best Short Film @ Sun in a Net (Slovak Film and Television Academy Awards) 2025
Best Film, Fireworks Competition @ Beldocs IDFF 2026
Best Student Film @ Milwaukee Underground Film Festival 2026

Screenings
San Sebastián International Film Festival, world premiere
Ann Arbor
BAFICI
It’s All True / É Tudo Verdade
FICCI – Animación Porosa
Vienna Shorts
Experiments in Cinema
Kassel Dokfest
Beldocs
IN THE PALACE
Zlín International Film Festival
Habitar El Cine
Mientras Tanto Cine
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival
FUSE – Film Under Severe Experiment
Marienbad Film Festival
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
goEast
Febiofest IFF
One World IFF
Yellowstone International Film Festival

Credits
Written and directed by: Eva Sajanová
Cast: Silvia Sviteková, fountains of Bratislava
Cinematography: Hugo Činčala
Edit: Rastislav M. Fabian
Sound recording: Olesia Stepura, Eva Sajanová
Sound design: Eva Sajanová
Music: God and Eve
Sound mix: Štefan Tomko
Color: Bruno Dužek
Production: Anna Mária Zimová, Eva Sajanová
Festival Strategy: Festival department, Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava
Poster and typography: Žofia Fodorová