2020: Back to the Future
as a theme for the anniversary 60th Zlín Film Festival
The section aims to broaden the horizons of young visitors in the area of science and technology. The films will be dramaturgically divided into three groups: documentary films on science and technology, live-action sci-fi films for young audience, and a section devoted to visual film effects.
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Submission deadline
is approaching!
Dear filmmakers, you still have a few days till the submission deadline for 60th Zlín Film Festival that takes place from May 29 to June 2020. It is looking for new feature films for children and youth, short animations, European documentaries and feature debuts and student films.
Please submit your films by March 1, 2020.
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The way we were
Discover & Explore
Thematic section of 59th ZFF was Discover & Explore showing films about nature, travelling and indigenous people. In total 280 films from 51 countries were screened. More than 170 delegations arrived in Zlín to introduce 80 films. Films screenings were attended by 42,000 viewers.
Take a tour of the past edition in this video.
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The Zlín Film Festival – International Film Festival for Children and Youth is the oldest and, currently, largest film festival of its kind in the world. The festival’s mission is to present a wide range of high-quality international film productions for children and teenagers and to make them accessible to a young audience. An important aspect of the festival is to develop the young audience’s aesthetic, social, and moral feelings, and to expand their awareness of the outside world. Every year the festival welcomes more than 100,000 visitors, hosts numerous international film delegations presenting their creative work, and attracts children’s film professionals from around the globe. The aim of the program is to contribute to the development of Czech cinema for children and youth. The organizer of the festival is the company FILMFEST, s.r.o.
