02 January 2025
Girl America and I'm Not Everything I Want to Be lead the nominations for Czech Film Critics‘ Awards
Girl America and I'm Not Everything I Want to Be lead the nominations for Czech Film Critics‘ Awards
Girl America by Viktor Tauš and Klára Tasovská's I'm Not Everything I Want to Be have each received five nominations for the Czech Film Critics Award. Jiří Mádl's Waves, shortlisted for the upcoming Oscars, completes the trio of titles competing for the main prize for the best film of the past year with a total of three nominations. For the first time, the top three films will be presented at a screening followed by a debate with the filmmakers, which will be hosted by the Edison Filmhub in Prague three days before the awards ceremony. The ceremony will take place on Saturday 1 February 2025 at ARCHA+.
Girl America, a very personal, at the same time dreamy and frightening reflection on growing up in an orphanage, earned the nomination for director and producer Viktor Tauš, screenwriter David Jařab, set and costume designer Jan Kadlec and the actress representing the youngest version of the titular character, Klára Kitto.
The portrait of photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková, I'm Not Everything I Want to Be, has successfully outgrown the documentary category, where it competes with Dajori and Limits of Europe. The nomination for the dynamic combination of rich photo archive and diary entries went to producer Lukáš Kokes, director and producer Klára Tasovská and editor Alexander Kashcheev. He will also be competing for the innogy Discovery of the Year Award alongside Kristina Dufková, a double-nominated director of the animated film Living Large, and Martin Pavol Repka, who made his feature debut last year with the gentle family drama March to May.
Waves by Jiří Mádl scored as well. The drama depicting the work of journalists at Czechoslovak Radio during the politically and socially tense years of 1967-8 brought a double nomination for director and screenwriter Jiří Mádl.
In the acting categories, the members of the Czech Film Critics Association highlighted the performances of the titular Mr. and Mrs. Stodola Lucie Žáčková and Jan Hajek, the speechless Oldřich Kaiser in The Gardener's Year and the acting of the otherwise non-actor Karel Martinec in Our Lovely Pig Slaughter. Pavla Beretová is also nominated for her drama Year of the Widow, which is also among the best screenplays of the year.
The short films are again completely dominated by animation. Jan Saska was nominated for his Žižkov night odyssey Hurikan, Jan Cechl for his puppet biographical adventure Lawrence of Moravia and Pola Kazak for her emotional Weeds.
The three films nominated in the Best Film category will be commemorated with special public screenings at the Edison Filmhub cinema in Prague, every day from Wednesday to Friday, 29-31 January 2025, from 7 pm. The awards evening will be hosted by youtuber, comedian and political commentator Jan Špaček. Czech Television will broadcast the ceremony live on ČT art.
Full list of nominated films HERE.
