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22.02.2010
The 60th International Film Festival in Berlin (February 11 – 21, 2010) proved to be a major success for director Jan Hřebejk. His film Kawasaki’s Rose picked up not one, but two prizes this year when two independent juries – the Ecumenical Jury and the Jury of the International Confederation of Art House Cinemas (C.I.C.A.E.) – deemed it a winner.More
06.02.2010
Jan Hřebejk’s latest movie, Kawasaki’s Rose, will open the Panorama Special section at the 60th annual Berlin International Film Festival (February 11 – 21, 2010), where Czech Film Center will represent Czech cinema for the eighth year running. Six other films will be screened at the coinciding European Film Market. The Czech-Slovak project My Dog, Killer from director Mira Fornay will be seeking potential partners at the…More
05.02.2010
The new newsletter 1/2010 is out!More
04.02.2010
A series of Czech film screenings entitled ‘CZECH’ THEM OUT presents a unique selection of eight successful feature and documentary films of the past decade in three biggest cities in Denmark – Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense.The series opens on Thursday, February 4 at 19:15 at the Danish Film Institute (Cinemateket) with the stunning drama Želary introduced by Czech actress Aňa Geislerová. The renowned Czech…More
01.02.2010
The Czech Film Center is to issue the first DVD of selected short films at the end of January. Under the title of Czech Short Films Vol. 1 it will present 12 short films created by students of Czech film schools (namely FAMU, the Film Academy of Miroslav Ondříček, The Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design and the Zlín Film School). It is the first edition of the DVD, which should continue in the years to come. The main goal…More
30.01.2010
Jan Němec's film The Ferrari Dino Girl took the Special Mention at the Trieste Film Festival. "The director gave us a great example of the call of an author’s engagement and by using filmmaking as a mean of autobiographical diary he brings to our present time the cruel history of his nation. He uses the film as one of the main characters, which plays an important role in the narrative structure, thus creating a great example of…More
28.01.2010
Prague, January 28, 2010 – The 32nd festival and the 25th market of short films in Clermont-Ferrand, France, will be held from February 1-6, 2010. Czech Film Center is set to represent the Czech Republic at the market for the first time ever, while two short films will represent the country at the festival – Štěpán Altrichter’s co-production with Germany Did Stephen Michael Knight End the Cold War? in…More
21.01.2010
The 45th year of the International Festival of Science Documentary Films Academia Film Olomouc (AFO) will take place in Olomouc, Czech Republic from the 13th to 18th of April, 2010. Following the pattern of the former years, AFO will expertly and innovatively map the fields of humanities, social and natural sciences that are in contact with audiovisual media, and thus it will offer an open meeting point for science and art. The deadline…More
18.01.2010
Habermann's Mill, a Czech-German-Austrian co-production from Slovak born Czechoslovak New Wave director Juraj Herz, won two awards at the Bavarian Film Prize ceremonies in Munich on January 15. Herz won best director and German actor Mark Waschke won best actor in the film about a wealthy owner of a sawmill with a Jewish wife, in a story set in the Sudetenland region connecting German and the Czech Republic in WWII.More
23.11.2009
Marek Najbrt’s Protektor won the Starz Denver Film Festival’s (SDFF) Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for best feature film.More
05.11.2009
Prague, November 5, 2009 – Six animated films will be screened at 8 o’clock tonight in Dresden’s Motorenhalle as part of the 11th Czech-German Culture Days. The block of films, dubbed Freedom of Animation, commemorates the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which marked fundamental changes in the political and social landscape of Europe, thus naturally Czechoslovakia, too.The program will feature The Hand…More
02.11.2009
The FIPRESCI Jury (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique) at the 52nd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (26. 10. - 01. 11. 2009) has awarded the Prize of the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique to the film Cooking History by Peter Kerekes (Slovakia, Austria, Czech Republic 2009). „The film convinced us with its inventive…More
26.10.2009
The new newsletter 4/2009 is out!More
19.10.2009
A series of screenings of fifteen Czech films will open in New York on Friday, October 23, with the North American distribution premiere of Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek’s documentary Citizen Havel. “The Ironic Curtain” series will run until October 29 at the Walter Reade Theater, located in the heart of Manhattan and operated by the prestigious Film Society of Lincoln Center, and feature screenings of The Return…More
09.10.2009
The slovak-czech-austrian co-production Cooking History (Ako sa varja dejiny) by slovak director Peter Kerekes has been nominated for the European Film Academy’s Prix Arte for the best documentary of 2009. The film was co-produced by Negativ, the production company which also produced last years´ winner Rene by Helena Trestikova.More
07.10.2009
Two new documentaries by Dan Krames will be screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival as well as the coproduction film Cooking History by Peter Kerekes.Jan Klusák - axis temporumLovely black and white documentary captures Czech-Jewish composer Jan Klusák in the axis of time (axis temporum) between his 70th and 75th year with incomparable vitality, charm and wit.Argippo ResurrectedAntonio Vivaldi's lost opera Argippo…More
06.10.2009
Zveme všechny scenáristy, dramaturgy i producenty na VEŘEJNÉ přednášky na téma úlohy mentorů ve vývoji scénáře a v tvůrčím procesu, které proběhnou během workshopuSOURCES 2 - Projects and Process ve dnech 15. a 16. října v 18.00 na FAMU.Přednášející budou Pavel Jech, děkan FAMU, a Dick Ross, dramaturg a pedagog…More
30.09.2009
October 14, 2009, 14:30–18:00 FAMU, Smetanovo nábř. 2, Prague 1 / room U1 Due to its success in March 2009 FAMU is organizing the “Developing Screenplays” Discussion and Pitching Forum for the second time. Discussion will cover the following topics: Story traditions, and film as a narrative vessel. Furthermore the oral, visual and dramatic traditions which are at the foundation of today’s…More
29.09.2009
September 29, 2009 – A two-week presentation of Czech cinema will take place in Strasbourg from September 30 to October 13. The festival titled Quinzaine du Cinema Tcheque, i.e., Two Weeks of Czech Film, follows up on a similar event held years ago in Strasbourg by the same organizer – Odyssée Cinema – in collaboration with Jaromil Jireš. This year’s festival will offer seven cinematic works from…More
25.09.2009
The Czech Film and Television Academy (ČFTA) has nominated the film Protektor by director Marek Najbrt to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film category at next year’s American Academy Awards.More
