Year FIFTEEN 2002 /April 22–28/

Competition and accompanying programme

During seven days there were 102 screenings of 158 films in the following thirteen thematic sections:

- FEATURE FILMS COMPETITION
- THOSE WONDERFUL MOVIE CRANKS
- FORUM OF THE CZECH TELEVISION
- THE MOST TURBULENT DECADE OF THE CZECH CINEMA – 1962
- PECULIARITY OF THE CZECH FILM
- SCIENCE FICTION OF KAREL ZEMAN
- SCHOOL – THE BASIS OF FILM LIFE
- CZECH MUSIC FILM
- ONE WORLD
- RETURN TO THE CIRCLE
- RETROSPECTIVE OF MILOŠ FORMAN
- WHERE TO PUT IT?
- DVD REMINISCENCES

In the framework of the accompanying programme the festival organised
EXHIBITIONS:
- AMADEUS – photographs of Petr Našic
- HOLOCAUST TRACES – Radovan Kodera

CONCERTS:
- Mediterian
- Čechomor
- Michal Prokop a Nutrio
- Jiří Schmitzer
- RED BULL party
- PASKVIL party
- Jan Burian

PRESENTATIONS:
- APA - „the panel of film projects 2002“
- NFA – presentation of the National film archive

Films in competition:

- ARCHA PRO VOJTU (DIR.: MONIKA EŠÍKOVÁ- VADASOVÁ)
- BABÍ LÉTO (DIR.:VLADIMÍR MICHÁLEK)
- DIVOKÉ VČELY (DIR.:BOHDAN SLÁMA)
- KRÁLOVSKÝ SLIB (DIR.:KRYŠTOF HANZLÍK)
- KRUH (DIR.:VĚRA PLÍVOVÁ- ŠIMKOVÁ, DRAHOMÍRA KRÁLOVÁ)
- MACH,ŠEBESTOVÁ A KOUZELNÉ SLUCHÁTKO (DIR.:VÁCLAV VORLÍČEK)
- MEDVĚDÍ SRDCE (DIR.:ARVO IHO)
- NACHOVÉ PLACHTY (DIR.:MIROSLAV JANEK)
- PERNÍKOVÁ VĚŽ (DIR.:MILAN ŠTEINDLER)
- PODZIMNÍ NÁVRAT (DIR.:GEORGE AGATHONIKIADIS)
- RADHOŠŤ (DIR.:TOMÁŠ DORUŠKA)
- ROK ĎÁBLA (DIR.:PETR ZELENKA)
- TMAVOMODRÝ SVĚT (DIR.:JAN SVĚRÁK)
- ÚNOS DOMŮ (DIR.:IVAN POKORNÝ)
- VÝLET (DIR.:ALICE NELLIS)
- ZATRACENÍ (DIR.:DAN SVÁTEK)

Juries and awards
· The specialist jury compound of:
MIROSLAV ONDŘÍČEK; director of photography – the chairman of the jury
TOMÁŠ BALDÝNSKÝ; publicist
IVAN FÍLA; director and scriptwriter
VLASTA CHRAMOSTOVÁ; actress
KATEŘINA ČERNÁ; producer

conferred the main statutory festival award of
the GOLDEN KINGFISHER
to the film directed by Vladimír Michálek
AUTUMN SPRING.

The specialist jury also decided to confer
the SPECIAL AWARD
to the film directed by Miroslav Janek
SCARLET SAILS.

The specialist jury also decided to confer
KODAK VISION AWARD FOR THE BEST DEBUT
to the film directed by Bohdan Sláma
THE WILD BEES.

· The international jury FICC compound of:
Markéta Sulovská – Czech Republic – the chairman of the jury
Stefan Berger – Switzerland
Bosse Linde – Sweden
Martha Otte – Norway
José Cruz Marques – Portugal
decided to confer
the DON QUIJOTE AWARD
to the film directed by Bohdan Sláma, Pavel Göbl, Tomáš Dobruška
RADHOŠŤ
for the fresh view on the strange relations in the diversified society.

The FICC jury also decided to confer
the SPECIAL AWARD
to the film directed by Alice Nellis
SOME SECRETS
for original conception of family relations. Combines the genre of road movies and chamber play and brings unexpected twists on the tours of film heroes and viewers.

· The student jury compound of:
Veronika Dvořáčková – the chairman of the jury
Petr Štípek
Martina Šťastná
Přibyslava Hoffmannová
Jana Dostálová
decided to confer
the AWARD FOR THE BEST COMPETITION FILM
to the film directed by Miroslav Janek
SCARLET SAILS.

· The viewers award
The viewers award,
was conferred on the basis of voting of the festival visitors to the film
directed by Petr Zelenka
YEAR OF THE DEVIL.

· ASSOCIATION OF CZECH FILM CLUBS AWARD
ASSOCIATION OF CZECH FILM CLUBS AWARD for the year 2001 
was awarded on the basis of members of the Association of Czech film clubs
to the film directed by Bohdan Sláma
THE WILD BEES.

· The BEST ACTOR AND ACTRESS AWARD

The BEST ACTOR AWARD
was conferred on the basis of Cinema magazine readers voting to
ONDŘEJ VETCHÝ
for the role in the film directed by Jan Svěrák Dark Blue World.

The BEST ACTRESS AWARD
was conferred on the basis of Cinema magazine readers voting to
TATIANA VILHELMOVÁ
for the role in the film directed by Bohdan Sláma The Wild Bees

Accredited guests and journalists

The festival issued 795 accreditations: 154 journalists, 55 foreign guests and 324 festival guests. Remaining 262 accreditations were students, film clubs members and weekend accreditations. Festival screenings were attended by altogether 28 564 viewers.

· DOMESTIC GUESTS

e.g. Zuzana Bydžovská – actress; Vilma Cibulková – actress; Karel Černý – architect; Jana Hádková – director; Ivana Chýlková – actress; Iva Janžurová – actress; Jan Kačer – actor; Bohumil Klepl – actor; Pavel Koutecký – director; Pavel Liška – actor; Alice Nellis – director; Ivan Pokorný – director; Petr Slavík – director; Jiří Strach – director; Jan Svěrák – director; Ondřej Vetchý – actor; Tatiana Vilhelmová – actress; Miloš Zábranský – director; Petr Zelenka – director; Stanislav Zindulka – actor

· FOREIGN GUESTS

e.g. Oliver Baumgarten – Schnitt – Germany; Christine Dollhofer – Diagonale – Austria; Chris Fell – IFF Leeds - The Great Britain; Petr Hames – London film festival - The Great Britain; Pavol Hell – IFF Vancouver – Canada; Erwan Higuinen - CAHIERS DU CINEMA – France; Peter Paul Huth – ZDF/3 SAT – Germany; Ralf Schenk – Berliner Zeitung – Germany; A.J. Liehm – France; Sergey Lavrentiev – IFF Sochi – Russia; Marcel Maiga – Cottbus – Germany; Alexej Medvedev – IFF Moscow – Russia; Nikolaj Nikitin – Schnitt – Germany; Robert Richter – IFF San Sebastian – Switzerland; Renate Rose – European Film Promotion – Germany; Ilona Ziok – director – Germany; Cay Shiyong – China film Association – China; Chen Ruoying – China film Association – China; Xu Jiansheng – China film Association – China; Bruno Pellandini – Diagonale – Austria; Tanja Meding – Ziegler Film - Germany; Pierre Daum – Libération – France