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31.10.2005
New Czech Documentaries Win in Jihlava
Prague, 31 October 2005 – The 9th annual International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava came to a close yesterday, and Czech documentary filmmakers did not leave empty-handed.Czech documentary films competed in the section Czech Joy, which showcased 18 new Czech documentaries. Films by Czech filmmakers appeared also in the international section Between the Seas, where four Czech films competed for the jury’s favor: Martin Mareček’s Source, Miroslav Janek’s Kha-chee-pae, Petr Zahrádka’s One Love, and Jan Šikl’s Private Century. The section Exile was devoted to Czech directors working in exile (e.g. M. Forman, V. Jasný); and a films by Jana Boková, a famous Argentinean documentary filmmaker of Czech origin, was featured in the section Translucent Beings.
Besides those, short films (Šimon Špidla’s Josef Brožek and Vít Janeček’s Syl-la-ba-ry) and Jiří Havelka´s film 1203 were shown.
The jury for Czech Joy took an unprecedented move this year and awarded the Best Czech Documentary Film Award 2005 to six films – Kateřina Krusová’s Jan’s Return from his Parisian Exile to Prague in Summer 2003, Lucie Králová’s Sold, Helena Třeštíková’s Marital Etudes 20 Years Later, Jan Šikl’s Private Century, Miroslav Janek’s Vierka, and Martin Mareček’s Source. The latter also won the Audience Award.
The Hungarian documentary Snail Fortress by director Deszö Zsigismond took the prize in the main competition section Between the Seas.
Besides film screenings, the festival also hosted other docu-centric events, including the now traditional East European Forum – a public presentation of planned Central European documentary projects organized by the Institute of Documentary Film. Pitched in this year’s forum were new projects from Marta Hrubá, Pavla Fleischerová, Linda Jablonská, and Marián Polák, while a project pitched successfully at the 2003 forum – Tomáš Kudrna’s Wichterle and the Czech-South African co-production Taking Back the Stable by Michael Lee – was presented to attendees as a case study. Among Saturday’s festival activities was a panel discussion, “Directly to the Audience,” devoted to theme of digital distribution of documentary films.
You can find more information at http://www.dokument-festival.cz and http://www.docuinter.net.
Contact
Markéta Šantrochová, tel: 22 11 05 322, GSM: 724 329 948,
Jana Černík, tel: 22 11 05 321, GSM: 724 329 949,
