According to the jury, the film was awarded for its fresh acting performances like Vratislav Brabenec's and by its original minimalist language, which tells a story about the impossibility of retribution for crimes committed by communists.
In a year that saw just three films sweep most of the nominations for the Czech Lions, the awarding of Gőbl’s low budget feature might seem surprising, but FITES vice-president Ivan Biel said FITES liked to seek out films of quality that were sometimes overlooked by other organizations. Biel is one of the Czech Republic’s most successful documentary makers, who often produces films for UK TV channels as well as Czech projects.
FITES is the oldest and largest of the Czech Republic’s associations of film and television professionals. The awards ceremony took place 17 January 2015 in the town of Beroun. Czech veteran director Milos Forman was awarded a lifetime achievement award.
Prize Winners: TRILOBIT Beroun 2014
Best Feature Fillm
Odborný dohled nad východem slunce (Expert Supervision of the Sunrise)
Directed by Pavel Gőbl
Produced by Czech Film SRO
Best Documentary
Opři žebřík o nebe (Lean a Ladder Against Heaven)
Directed by Jana Ševčíková
Produced by Jana Ševčíková
Coproduction: Studio Virtual, i/o post
Best Czech TV Series
Trabantem Jižní Amerikou (Through South America with Trabant)
Directed by Dan Přibáň with cinematography by Zdeněk Krátký
Produced by Ceska Televize
Best Documentary Director
Saša Dlouhý for his documentary film Liebe Indigo
Produced by FreeSam
Coproduced by Ceska Televize
Best Work in a Czech TV Drama Series
Klestilová-Volánková and Karel Roden for Terapie II
Produced by HBO CZ
Jury Prizes (The Jury Prize was split between 3 films)
Olga
Directed by Miroslav Janek
Produced by Film & Sociologie
Coproduced by Ceska Televize
Supported by the Czech Film Fund
Podoby dekadence (Forms of decadence)
Directed by Aleš Kisil
Zločin pana Chytila (Mr Chytil´s Crime)
Directed by Ivo Bystřičan
The Extraordinary Jury Prize
Neviditelná ruka trhu: Privatizace Barrandova (The invisible hand of the market: The Barrandov Studio Privatization)
Directed by Martin Kohout
Produced by Martin Kohout
The Special Jury Prize
The journalistic project DVTV, aktuálně.cz
Directed by Daniela Drtinová and Martin Veselovský
Children’s Jury Prize – Beroun´s Little Bear
Pojedeme k moři (Let's Go to the Sea)
Directed by Jiří Mádl
Václav Havel Prize
Kancelář Blaník (Office Blaník)
Scriptwriters and directors Marek Najbrt, Benjamin Tuček, Tomáš Hodan, Robert Geisler, Marek Daniel and Milan Kuchynka
Vladislav Vančura Prize (life Achievement)
Miloš Forman
