The Czech Film Fund announced support for the development of documentary features. Thirteen of the total of 18 submitted projects succeeded and were granted altogether CZK 4,9 million (EUR 192 156). The Council was interested in projects related to politics, ecology, art or fake news.
Czech Film Fund announced minority co-production support for 10 from the total of 25 submitted projects with the sum of CZK 24 million (EUR 941 176). Six feature-length fiction films, 2 animated films and 2 documentaries were supported, including Vitaly Mansky´s new documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev, or works by promising young Poles. Grzegorz Jaroszyk and Jan P. Matuszyński.
On October 9, the Czech Film Fund announced support for minority co-productions with the sum of CZK 20 million (€ 769,230). From the total amount of 25 projects that applied for support, 14 projects were selected at the initial stage and finally, 8 projects were supported. On the same day, the support for development of animated films was announced. All together 6 projects – 3 features and 3 shorts – were supported with the total amount of CZK 4 million (€153,846).
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The Czech Film Fund announced support for the production of documentaries and development of feature-length fiction projects in its recent schemes announced at the end of July. All together 23 projects will be granted the amount of 21 million Czech crowns (€82,353).
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The Crystal Globe for Best Feature Film at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival went to the new endeavor of the recognised Romanian director Radu Jude – “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians”. The film was produced by Ada Solomon in Romania, in co-production with the Czech Republic, France, Bulgaria and Germany.
53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has announced its competition line-up. This year, the selection includes a record number of 12 Czech and co-production movies that will have their world premiere at the festival. Three Czech films – a road movie Winter Flies by Olmo Omerzu, Adam Sedlák’s feature debut Domestique and a minority Czech co-production “I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians” by Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude – will try their luck in the main competition section. The East of the West competition includes the debut Moments (d. Beata Parkanová), Bear with Us (d. Tomáš Pavlíček) and minority co-production Via Carpatia by Klara Kochańska. Tomáš Bojar's Breaking News, Jana Andert’s Inside Mosul and Putin’s Witnesses by Vitaly Mansky, shot again in the Czech co-production, were selected for the documentary competition. Finally, Benjamin Tuček’s sci-fi comedy Trash on Mars will be presented out of competition and two documentaries King Skate by Šimon Šafránek and Michal Varga’s Circus Rwanda will be part of non-competitive Special Events section.
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The Czech Film Fund announced support for the production of 9 feature length fiction films totalling at EUR 2,516,000 (CZK 65 million). The highest amount – €588,235 – was granted to Zatopek by director David Ondříček and his production company Lucky Man Films.
One week prior to the opening, Berlinale has announced that Jiří Menzel, renowned Czech film director and actor, will receive Berlinale Camera 2018 alongside Beki Probst and Katriel Schory. Jiří Menzel, whose artistic curriculum includes more than 20 feature films, is considered a legend of Czech cinema. Menzel’s world-celebrated film Larks on the String, had its premiere in 1990 at Berlinale, 21 years after it had been released and shortly after banned in communist Czechoslovakia.
Three Czech coproduction films have been selected for the Berlinale IFF. The psychological drama Touch Me Not, directed by Adina Pintilie, will be included in Competition, while the road movie The Interpreter, directed by Martin Šulík and starring Jiří Menzel and Peter Simonischek, premieres in Berlinale Special, and the painfully relevant documentary When the War Comes by Jan Gebert will open Panorama Dokumente.
The latest film by acclaimed artist, screenwriter, and director Jan Švankmajer, Insect, will be screened at the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam, which will be underway from Jan. 24 to Feb. 4, 2018.
Three new Czech documenatries have been selected for International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), which takes place November 15 - 26, 2017. Nothing Like Before by Lukáš Kokeš and Klára Tasovská will have its world premiere in the Competition for First Appearance, Petr Horký's directorial debut The Russian Job has been selected for the Competition for Mid-Length Documentary and Vít Klusák's The White World According to Daliborek will be screened in the Masters section.
Kateřina Karhánková’s animated film Fruits of Clouds (Czechia, 2017, 10 min) won the Best European Short Animation award at the Cinekid Festival for children films, TV programming, and media. The closing ceremony of the 31st edition of the festival took place on Friday, October 27, 2017.
The most extensive retrospective of the Czech film icon presented at DocLisboa in Portugal, October 19-29
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The fifteen-minute short film Who's Who in Mycology by young talent Marie Dvořáková has been awarded by the American Academy as one of the three winners in the narrative film category (domestic film schools) in the frame of 2017 Student Academy Awards.
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The Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA) selected Ice Mother by renowned director Bohdan Sláma as a Czech candidate for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.
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