Money and Movies: How do the V4 States Support Filmmaking?
State subsidies for culture and the arts are a delicate issue in post-communist countries, especially due to the legacy of support coming with control and censorship. Nevertheless, culture is a key element of national identity; it represents the current values of society and constitutes its heritage for further generations. Therefore, finding a new relationship between the state and culture has been one of the essential issues in Central European countries in the last 22 years. Cinema has been a crucial part of national cultures of all the four Visegrad countries since the interwar period.