Andrea Kalinová

Andrea Kalinová graduated in Photography and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in 2006 with her graduation film The Secret of a Swimming Pool. Using the mockumentary format, the film explored and mythologised an unfinished swimming pool above Bratislava’s tram tunnel. Her films include Off Season (2018), about the Machnáč sanatorium in Slovakia, and Replanted (2025), which follows displaced residents of a former sanatorium in Georgia. Andrea Kalinová was part of Caucasus Cinema 2023, where she made several short films: A Photo with the Dictator, Mosaic (co-directed with Valeria Korolova), Winter Is Going, Passing Away.