Year TWENTY 2007 /April 23 – 29, 2007/

The Competition and Accompanying Programme

Over the festival’s seven days, 186 films were presented at 172 screenings in the following 11 thematic sections:

- FEATURE COMPETITION
- DOCUMENTARIES COMPETITION
- CZECH CINEMA’S MOST TURBULENT DECADE – YEAR 1967
- THOSE WONDERFUL MOVIE CRANKS
- LECTURES, TALKSHOWS, MUSIC VIDEOS
- CLOSELY WATCHED TORMENT
- TRIBUTE TO JAN ŠPÁTA
- TRIBUTE TO LADISLAV HELGE
- SCHOOL – THE BASIS OF FILM LIFE
- CENTRAL EUROPEAN FILM
- PECULARITIES OF THE CZECH MOVIES

The accompanying programme included:

· CONCERTS:
- OSKAR PETR A HELEN
- TARA FUKI
- ZÁVIŠ
- IVA FRUHLINGOVÁ
- MOJMIR PAPALESCU AND THE NIHILIST
- NOC S ANDĚLEM – Jan Burian
- A BUDE HŮŘ

· EXHIBITIONS:
- JAROSLAV RÓNA: FIFTY FIFTY
- MILOŠ FIKEJZ: THOSE WONDERFUL MOVIE CRANKS
- PAVEL PTÁK: HISTORY OF FINÁLE
- JIŘÍ KUČERA: STOPPED PICTURES 1972 – 1985
- BIMBA – THE FORGOTTEN PAINTER BOHUMIL KONEČNÝ
- PETR ŽŮREK: CAMERA PAINTING

· PANELS, DISCUSSIONS, LECTURES, MUSIC VIDEOS, DVD SCREENINGS (THEATRE IN THE STREETS)

- The Czech Anti-piracy Union panel
- Digital cinema panel
- Feature film projects panel
- Presentation of Remembrance Publication "Jan Špáta“
- Pavel Koutecký Award
- Central European film – meeting point
- Seminars: Czech film music - the 60’s
- Czech film music – electronic soundtracks era
- Cosy family cinema
- Film machine

The following films entered in the competition:

· FEATURE COMPETITION:

- … IT GONNA GET WORSE (director: Petr Nikolaev)
- BESTIAR (director: Irena Pavlásková)
- GRANDHOTEL (director: David Ondříček)
- PLEASANT MOMENTS (director: Věra Chytilová)
- INDIAN AND THE NURSE (director: Dan Wlodarczyk)
- ONE NIGHT IN ONE CITY (director: Jan Balej)
- BEAUTY IN TROUBLE (director: Jan Hřebejk)
- KVASKA (director: Mirjam Landa)
- MAHARAL (director: Pavel Jandourek)
- MARTA (director: Marta Nováková)
- I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND (director: Jiří Menzel)
- BORN INTO SHIT (director: Marcel Bystroň)
- MONEY MAKES THE MAN (director: Jiří Chlumský)
- RULES OF LIES (director: Robert Sedláček)
- DOLLS (director: Karin Babinská)
- THE RO(C)K CON ARTISTS (director: Karel Janák)
- HOLIDAY MAKERS (director: Jiří Vejdělek)
- ALL THE BEST! (director: Martin Kotík)
- ALL OR NOTHING (director: Karel Žalud)
- THE GARDENER (director: Marcel Bystroň)
- out of competition: EMPTIES (director: Jan Svěrák)

· DOCUMENTARIES COMPETITION:
- ALLEGRO (director: Jan V. Sacher)
- A CZECH PHENOMENON: DANCING CLASS (director: Bernard Šafařík)
- ZIKMUND REACH'S FICTITIOUS DIARY (director: Josef Císařovský)
- VIOLIN KNIGHT (director: Pavel Marek)
- BORDERS OF SMELL (director: Lucie Králová)
- INDUSTRIAL ELEGY (director: Daniela Gébová)
- WHO WILL TEACH ME THE HALF OF THE CHARACTER (director: Martin Ryšavý)
- A BEAUTIFUL LIFE I WILL HAVE... (director: Pavel Koutecký)
- LEFT, RIGHT, FORWARD (director: Linda Jablonská)
- LOVE YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMOROW (director: Olga Sommerová)
- MARCELA (director: Helena Třeštíková)
- ONE STROKE OF BUTTERFLY WINGS (director: Jan Šikl)
- I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU (director: Kateřina Krusová)
- NEVER BEEN BETTER (director: Ivana Miloševič)
- LOW-LEVEL FLIGHT (director: Jan Šikl)
- OSADA BYSTRANY (director: Petra Kunčíková)
- SWEAT AND TEARS - THE MAKING OF THE PRAGUE SPRING, OPUS NO. 2 (director: Pavel Koutecký)
- BIZZARE WORLD (director: Steve L. Lichtag)
- THE LIKELY CASE OF VLADIMIR HUČÍN (director: Martin Vadas)
- WE OUTLIVED OUR CHILDREN (director: Olga Sommerová)
- I GO WHERE I WANT (director: Olga Špátová)
- HALF PAST THREE (director: Tomáš Hodan)
- REMINESCENCES (director: Ivan Vojnár)
- THE EVENTS OF PAVEL ŠTECHA (director: Helena Třeštíková)
- UNDER UNDERGROUND (director: Viera Čákanyová)
- VORGA - A PATH OF TWO BANKS (director: Zdeněk Novotný Bričkovský)
- SHAKING BONES (director: Břetislav Rychlík)
- ZÁVIŠ, THE PRINCE OF PORNOFOLK...(director: Karel Vachek)
- out of competition: INSIDE PASSAGE (director: Ladislav Moulis)
- out of competition: LIFE TOGETHER (director: Karel Makoň, Vladimír Nový)
- out of competition: COME CLOSER, CANDY (director: Pavel Koutecký)
- out of competition: SOLD (director: Lucie Králová)
- out of competition: ZENTA...FATE OF AN AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN CRUISER (director: Petr Jančárek)

Juries and Awards

· The International Feature Film Jury:

Iva Janžurová (Czech Republic), actress – chairperson of the jury
Bojidar Manov (Bulgaria), film critic and journalist
Alan Fountain (Great Britain), media expert
Danijel Hočevar (Slovenia), producer
Peter Dubecký (Slovakia), dramaturge, producer, publicist

conferred the main statutory award of the festival,
the GOLDEN KINGFISHER,
in the Best Feature Film category
on the film directed by Karin Babinská
DOLLS

and also conferred
the Award for an Outstanding Film Achievement
on the film directed by Petr Nikolaev
IT GONNA GET WORSE

JURY’S REASONS:

The jury was impressed with the wide range of films and many genres represented in the Feature Competition. It was difficult to compare films with different aspirations and budgets and to find criteria to compare them. The Jury decided to award two films to which we personally responded very strongly.
We decided to give the main prize – Golden Kingfisher – to “Dolls” by Karin Babinská. We felt that this was an excellent debut film which dealt with universal topics. It found an original form through which it explorer the experience of its three main protagonists in a way which was both intelligent and appealed to wide audience.
We were also impressed with a film which dealt with important history aspects of the recent history of the Czech Republic and wish to award the special award to “It Gonna Get Worse” by Petr Nikolaev.
This is a film which did not set out to win its audiences in a conventional way and very much succeeds in throwing light on the society of the 70’s and 80’s in a very tough and original way.

· The International Documentary Film Jury:

Jana Cisar (Germany), producer – chairperson of the jury
Robert Kirchhoff (Slovakia), director a producer
Kristiina Davidjants (Estonia), scriptwriter and director

conferred the main statutory award of the festival,
the GOLDEN KINGFISHER,
in the Best Documentary Film category
on the film directed by Helena Třeštíková
MARCELA

JURY’S REASONS:
In the competition of documentary films we saw films of various styles and lengths. We decided to find a creative documentary for the category of the Golden Kingfisher. Finally two films where strongly discussed and we decided for the film with a strong universal story, for film MARCELA by director Helena Třeštíková. It is made in a traditional narrative way, which seems simple at the first moment, but is hard to archive. The strong human story shot during several years with “collective method” convinced the jury to award this film.

· Audience Award

was conferred on the basis of festival audiences voting
on the film directed by Robert Sedláček
RULES OF LIES

· Association of Czech Film Clubs

conferred on the basis of its members voting
THE ASSOCIATION OF CZECH FILM CLUBS AWARD FOR 2007
on the film directed by Robert Sedláček
RULES OF LIES

· Mladá fronta DNES readers

decided by their voting that
THE AWARD FOR THE BEST PERFORMANCE
goes to
EVA HOLUBOVÁ
for her role in film Holiday Makers

Film Festival FINÁLE

conferred
the AWARD FOR AN OUTSTANDING SUPPORT
OF CZECH CINEMATOGRAPHY ABROAD on
ROBERT RICHTER
a member of selection committee of IFF in San Sebastian

Accredited Guests and Journalists

750 persons were accredited at the festival, including 89 journalists, 60 foreign guests. The remaining accreditations were for home guests, jury members, students, film club members.
By Sunday morning 21 560 tickets were issued (including accreditations).

· SOME OF FOREIGN GUESTS
Phillip N. Bergson – Great Britain, film journalist; Philippe Boudoux – France, audiovisual attaché; Jeffrey Brown – USA, producer; Aleš Březina – Canada, film journalist; Renata Clark – Great Britain, Deputy Director; Charlie Cockey – USA, European Film Programmer; Michal Drobný – Slovakia, distributor; Andreas Eicher – Germany, producer; Peter Hames – Great Britain, film journalist; Pavol Hell – Germany, programme coordinator; Peter Paul Huth – Germany, film journalist; Carlo Chatrian – Switzerland, member of programme committee; Andrzej Kawala – Poland, festival director; Piotr Kotowski – Poland, film publicist; Tatjana Langášková – Austria, Directo of Czech Centre in Vienna; Stefan Laudyn – Poland, director of Film Festival in Warsaw; Sergey Lavrentiev – Russia, programme director; Magdalena Macejková – Slovakia, programme coordinator; Marcel Maiga – Germany, festival coordinator; Brigitta Manthey – Germany, special referent; Denis Nikitenko – Ukraine, art director; Freddy Olsson – Sweden, producer, programme coordinator of IFF Göteborg; Martha Otte – Norway, festival director; Robert Richter – Switzerland, member of programme committee; Jörg Taszman – Germany, film journalist; Will Tizard – USA, journalist and others.

· SOME OF DOMESTIC GUESTS
F. A. Brabec – cameraman, director, scriptwriter; Aleš Březina – music composer; Jan Budař – actor, scriptwriter; Marek Dobeš – director; Ivan Fíla – director, scriptwriter; Richard Genzer – actor; Tomáš Hanák – actor, host, scriptwriter; Ladislav Helge – director; Jan Hřebejk – director, scriptwriter; Jiří Chlumský – director, producer; Věra Chytilová – director and scriptwriter; Klára Issová – actress; Iva Janžurová – actress; Petr Jarchovský – director a scriptwriter; Jan Kačer – director; Jiří Konečný – producer; Čestmír Kopecký – producer; Jan Kraus – actor, director, scriptwriter; Jana Krausová – actress; Jiří Krejčík – director, scriptwriter; Jan Muchow; Petr Nikolaev – director, scriptwriter; Vladimír Páral – author; Irena Pavlásková – director; Stanislav Penc – goat herder; Maria Procházková – director; Ivan Renč – director; Dara Rolins – singer; Břetislav Rychlík – director, scriptwriter; Jakub Sommer – director, scriptwriter; Olga Sommerová – director, scriptwriter; Pavel Strnad – producer; Vratislav Šlajer – producer; Ondřej Trojan – producer, ČFTA, ČFK; Helena Třeštíková – director, scriptwriter; David Vávra – actor, scriptwriter; Ivan Vojnár – director; Markéta Zahradníková – producer; Karel Žalud – director and others.