Year SIXTEEN 2003 /March 31 – April 5/

Competition and accompanying programme

During seven days there were 125 screenings of 157 films in the following fourteen thematic sections:

- FEATURE FILMS COMPETITION
- COMPETITION OF DOCUMENTARIES UNDER 30 MINUTES
- COMPETITION OF DOCUMENTARIES OVER 30 MINUTES
- FORUM OF THE CZECH TELEVISION
- THE MOST TURBULENT DECADE OF THE CZECH CINEMA – 1963
- SCHOOL – THE BASIS OF FILM LIFE
- THOSE WONDERFUL MOVIE CRANKS
- LONELY RUNNERS
- JAKUBISKO IN THE EYES OF JAKUBISKO
- FILMS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH
- POETS OF THE WILDERNESS
- SPECIAL SCREENINGS
- CENTRAL EUROPEAN FILM
- THE DAY OF EUROPEAN FILM

In the framework of the accompanying programme the festival organised
EXHIBITION:
- 50 years of the Czech Television

· CONCERTS:
- Yvonne Sanchez & Robert Balzar Trio
- Dara Rolins & DJ Lumiera
- Ladakh – Pavel Fait, Václav Kořínek
- November 2nd
- FUNKOMAT

· PRESENTATIONS
- Presentation of the European union programme MEDIA Plus
- Film projects panel – in cooperation with the Czech film centre and IDF

Films in competition:

· FEATURE FILMS COMPETITION:

- ČERT VÍ PROČ
(dir.: Roman Vávra)
- DĚVČÁTKO
(dir.: Benjam Tuček)
- FIMFÁRUM JANA WERICHA
(dir.: Aurel Klimt)
- HRY PRACHU
(dir.: Martin Mareček)
- KDO BUDE HLÍDAT HLÍDAČE ANEB KLÍČ K CHALOUPCE
STRÝČKA TOMA
(dir.: Karel Vachek)
- KRUTÉ RADOSTI
(dir.: Juraj Nvota)
- KRYSAŘ
(dir.: F.A.Brabec)
- LÁSKA SHORA
(dir.: Petr Marek)
- LESNÍ CHODCI
(dir.: Ivan Vojnár)
- MĚSTEČKO
(dir.: Jan Kraus)
- MUSÍM TĚ SVÉST
(dir.: Andrea Sedláčková)
- NONSTOP
(dir.: Jan Gogola ml.)
- PUPENDO
(dir.: Jan Hřebejk)
- SMRADI
(dir.: Zdeněk Tyc)
- STAROVĚRCI; SVĚCENÍ JARA
(dir.: Jana Ševčíková)
- WATERLOO PO ČESKU
(dir.: Vít Olmer)

· COMPETITION OF DOCUMENTARIES UNDER 30 MINUTES

- ČEKÁNÍ NA ŠÍLENSTVÍ
(dir.: Markéta Válková)
- DOMOV MŮJ
(dir.: Martin Mareček)
- KOLYMA NA PRODEJ
(dir.: Helena Svobodová, Eva Rybková)
- MÁME NA TO?
(dir.: Vít Janeček)
- MAPA MÍST SVATÝCH A KLATÝCH
(dir.: Josef Císařovský)
- OD LEDNA DO KVĚTNA
(dir.: Marián Polák)
- PALAESTRA
(dir.: Martin Čihák)
- SVĚDKOVÉ JEHOVOVI
(dir.: Pavel Marek)
- … TO JSOU TĚŽKÉ VZPOMÍNKY
(dir.: Monika Rychlíková)
- ÚŽERA
(dir.: Martin Řezníček)

· COMPETITION OF DOCUMENTARIES OVER 30 MINUTES:

- DĚDICTVÍ BAROKNÍ ČECHIE
(dir.: Miroslav Kučera)
- DIVNÁ SLEČINKA
(dir.: Rudolf Chudoba)
- DRUHÝ ŽIVOT LIDIC
(dir.: Pavel Štingl, David Vaughan)
- FAŠANKY
(dir.: Petr Hajn)
- FESTER NEBO FIKCE
(dir.: Robert Ellman)
- HITLER, STALIN A JÁ
(dir.: Helena Třeštíková)
- KLÍČ K URČOVÁNÍ TRPASLÍKŮ ANEB POSLEDNÍ CESTA LEMUELA GULLIVERA
(dir.: Martin Šulík)
- MNOHO HLASŮ
(dir.: Tomáš Škrdlant)
- NĚKDE JE LÍP
(dir.: Mira Ardevičky)
- SPRAVEDLNOSTI ČASU, JSEM TVŮJ VYZNAVAČ
(dir.: Josef Císařovský)
- TENKRÁT 3 – HUSÁKOVO TICHO
(dir.: Robert Sedláček)
- ÚŽASNÝ ROKENROL V ČECHÁCH ANEB JEĎ, HONZO, JEĎ
(dir.: Igor Chaun)
- VĚŽ SMRTI
(dir.: Kristina Vlachová)
- ZTRACENÁ DUŠE NÁRODA – ZTRÁTA TRADICE
(dir.: Olga Sommerová)
- ŽENY NA PŘELOMU TÍSÍCILETÍ - SESTŘIČKY
(dir.: Helena Třeštíková)

Juries and awards
· The international feature film jury compound of:

Stanislav Milota (director of photography, The Czech Republic) – the chairman of the jury
Tanja Meding (producer - Ziegler Production, Germany)
Nikolaj Nikitin (programme coordinator - IFF Berlin, Germany)
Thom Palmen (the president of the European office for coordination of film festivals, Sweden)
Eddie Cockrell (film critic – Variety, US)

conferred the main statutory festival award of
the GOLDEN KINGFISHER
to the film directed by Jan Hřebejk
PUPENDO.

The international jury also decided to confer
KODAK VISION AWARD FOR THE BEST DEBUT
to the film directed by Zdeněk Tyc
THE BRATS.

· The international jury for documentaries compound of:
Jiří Krejčík (director, The Czech Republic) – the chairman of the jury
Ulle Schröeder (ARTE, Germany)
Elizabeth Marschan (Film Festival Doc Point, Finland)

decided to confer the statutory festival award of
the GOLDEN KINGFISHER in the category of the best documentary under 30 minutes
to the film directed by Martin Řezníček
ÚŽERA.

and furthermore decided to confer the statutory festival award of
the GOLDEN KINGFISHER in the category of the best documentary over 30 minutes
to the film directed by Helena Třeštíková
HITLER, STALIN AND I.

· The viewers award
The viewers award of the Pilsner Urquell,
was conferred on the basis of voting of the festival visitors to the film
directed by Zdeněk Tyc
THE BRATS.

· ASSOCIATION OF CZECH FILM CLUBS AWARD
ASSOCIATION OF CZECH FILM CLUBS AWARD for the year 2002 
was awarded on the basis of members of the Association of Czech film clubs
to the film directed by Petr Zelenka
YEAR OF THE DEVIL.

· The BEST ACTOR AND ACTRESS AWARD

The BEST ACTOR AWARD
was conferred on the basis of Cinema magazine readers voting to
IVAN TROJAN
for the role in the film directed by Zdeněk Tyc The Brats.

The BEST ACTRESS AWARD
was conferred on the basis of Cinema magazine readers voting to
IVA JANŽUROVÁ
for the role in the film directed by Alice Nellis Some Secrets.


Accredited guests and journalists

The festival issued 846 accreditations: 69 journalists, 53 foreign guests and 543 festival guests. Remaining 181 accreditations were students, film clubs members and weekend accreditations. Festival screenings were attended by altogether 28 326 viewers.

· DOMESTIC GUESTS

e.g. Tereza Boučková – scriptwriter, F.A.Brabec – director, Michal Bregant – the dean of FAMU, Milan Cieslar – producer, Kateřina Černá – producer, Ivan Fíla – director, Monika Elšíková – director Ester Geislerová – actress, Jan Gogola ml. – director, Jan Hřebejk – director, Ivana Chýlková – actress, Petr Jákl – actor, Juraj Jakubisko – director, Deana Jakubisková – producer, Petr Jarchovský – scriptwriter, Jiří Krampol – actor, Jan Kraus – actor, Matěj Mináč – director, Luděk Munzar – actor, Richard Němec – producer, Juraj Nvota – director, Táňa Pauhofová – actress, Vlasta Pospíšilová – director, František Řehák – actor, Ljuba Skořepová – actress, Pavel Strnad – producer, Zdeněk Suchý – actor, Jana Ševčíková – director, Benjamin Tuček – director, Zdeněk Tyc – director, Karel Vachek – director, Martin Vandas – producer, Roman Vávra – director, Ivan Vojnár – director, Lucie Vondráčková – actress, Tomáš Vorel - director

· FOREIGN GUESTS

e.g. Lorenzo Acquaviva – Festival Scienceplusfiction (Italy); Aleš Benda – Czech Centre (Bulgary), Jan Bondy – Czech Centre Berlin (Germany), Aleš Březina – Satellite (Canada), Renata Clark – Czech Centre London (The Great Britain), Charlie Cockey – IFF San Jose (the US), Peter Dubecký – Slovakia film institute (Slovakia), Dimitri Eipides – IFF Thessaloniki (Greece), Chris Fell – IFF Leeds (The Great Britain); Zuzana Golianová – Radio Twist (Slovakia), Petr Hames – London film festival (The Great Britain); Pavol Hell – IFF Vancouver (Canada); Peter Paul Huth – ZDF/3 SAT (Germany); Irada Ismailová – IFF Stalker (Russia), Galina Kompanichenko – Film institute (Russia), Irena Kovářová – Czech Centre New York (the US), Stefan Laudyn – IFF Warsaw (Poland), Sergey Lavrentiev – IFF Sochi (Russia,) A.J. Liehm (France), Marcel Maiga – festival of East European film Cottbus (Germany), Alexej Medvedev – IFF Moscow (Russia), Cathy Meils – Variety (the US), Martha Otte – IFF Tromso (Norway), Gerardo Ochoa Sandy – culture attaché (Mexico) Robert Richter – IFF San Sebastian (Switzerland), Nadja Turincev – IFF Cannes (France)