Year TWELWE - 1999 /April 12 - 18/
Festival director: Ivan Jáchim
Programme director: Jan Kastner
Festival moderator: Jan Burian
Films in competition:
Rivers of Babylon /Vlado Balco/, Dvojrole /Jaromil Jireš/, Je třeba zabít Sekala /Vladimír Michálek/, Císař a Tambor /Václav Křístek/, Pelíšky /Jan Hřebejk/, Panství / Kenneth Berris/, Návrat idiota /Saša Gedeon/, Z pekla štěstí /Zdeněk Troška/, Rychlé pohyby očí /Radim Špaček/, Čas dluhů /Irena Pavlásková/, Co chytneš v žitě /Radim Špaček/, Agáta /Dan Krameš/, Minulost /Ivo Trajkov/.
The film Conjure, Grandma directed by Zdeněk Havlíček was presented out of competition.
Jury: Juraj Jakubisko – chairman of the jury, Mirka Spáčilová, Lubor Dohnal, Jan Kastner, Jan Potměšil, Jaroslav Sedláček and Petr Zelenka conferred the main festival award of GOLDEN KINGFISHER to the film Return of the Idiot directed by Saša Gedeon.
Other awards:
International FICC jury: Richard Kohout (ČR), Alain Carou (France), Olle Peter Bakken (Norway) confered the DON QUIJOTE award to the film Return of the Idiot directed by Saša Gedeon.
The FICC Jury also conferred the SPECIAL AWARD to the film The Past directed by Ivo Trajkov
AUDIENCE AWARD was conferred on the basis of festival audience voting to the film Cosy Dens directed by Jan Hřebejk.
BEST ACTOR AWARD was conferred on the basis of Cinema magazine readers voting to Olaf Lubaszenko (for a role in film directed by Vladimír Michálek: Sekal has to die), BEST ACTRESS AWARD to Iva Janžurová (for a role in film directed by Roman Vávra: In the Rye).
Festival was attended by:
Ivan Arsenjev, Tereza Brodská, Vlastimil Brodský, Michal Caban, Mira Erdevičky-Charap, Saša Gedeon, Ondřej Havelka, Jan Hřebejk, Vladimír Chrenovský, Václav Jakoubek, Miroslav Janek, Iva Janžurová, Petr Jarchovský, Karel Kachyňa, Jiří Kodet, Dan Krameš, Jiří Krejčík, Michaela Kuklová, Jiří Macháček, Tomáš Mašín, Pavel Melounek, Vladimír Michálek, Ondřej Nekvasil, Dana Němcová, Richard Němec, Kristýna Nováková, Petr Oukropec, Irena Pavlásková, Jarmila Poláková, Jiří Pomeje, Jiří Sternwald, Zdeněk Suchý, Jana Ševčíková, Radim Špaček, Ivo Trajkov, Jiří Trnka, Ondřej Trojan, Marian Urban, Roman Vávra
