16-05-2015

Czech Cinema in Cannes 2015

By Czech Film Center

    The Czech film Retriever will be in the official programme, in the Cinéfondation section, at this year’s Cannes IFF (13 – 24 May 2015). Seven Czech films will be shown as part of Marché du film, Jan Macola is this year’s Czech “Producer on the Move” and 5 Czech producers will be introduced at the regular Producers Network meeting.

    Czech cinematography will once again be represented at the Marché du Film film market in the Czech/Slovak pavilion, which the Czech Film Center shares with the Slovak Film Institute. The pavilion is located in a prestigious part of the Village International market under number 131 and is used as a space for the presentation of Czech films, cinematic news, co-production opportunities with Czech producers and services provided to foreign film crews as well as facilities for Czech producers that can meet foreign professionals in its spaces. The partners of the pavilion are Barrandov Studios and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

    Cinéfondation, an official competition section of the Cannes IFF that presents student films from all over the world, will be screening a total of 18 films and has also selected a Czech film. Retriever, a short film by FAMU students Tomáš Klein and Tomáš Merta, is the story of Milan, whose wife and son have left him and he takes back at least the last reminder of a functioning family, a retriever named Goldy. Goldy becomes the companion to Milan’s life, soul and mind.

    Jan Macola, the founder of the Prague production company Mimesis film, which produced Petr Václav’s The Way Out, the winner of a number of Czech Lion awards, was chosen this year for the Producers on the Move programme organised by European Film Promotion, of which the Czech Film Center is also a member. The programme, which takes place as part of the Cannes IFF, is meant for 20 selected beginning European producers and its goal is to help them in the search for partners for their further projects. The project with which Jan Macola will be participating in the program is Il Boemo, about the life of composer Josef Mysliveček, which will be directed by Petr Václav and which follows the already completed documentary Confession of the Vanished.

    Another important programme for film professionals as part of the film market in Cannes is the Producers Network, to which around 500 producers from all over the world are invited. The objective of this special meeting is to strengthen the opportunities for international co-productions. Each day of the week-long programme is dedicated to a different country. This year the CFC also managed to arrange for a special day for the Czech Republic. Five producers will be presented at this time: Kristína Hejduková for Sirena Film, Petr Tichý for Barrandov Studio, Jiří Konečný for endorfilm, Karla Stojáková for Axman Production and Pavel Strnad for Negativ Film.

    There will be a special projection of seven Czech films for foreign distributors and sales agents as part of the film market Marché du Film: Aferim! (Rumunsko, Bulharsko, ČR), Goat (SR, ČR), Ghoul (ČR, USA), Honey Night (Macedónie, ČR, Slovinsko), Šiška Deluxe (Slovinsko, ČR, Makedonie), The Snake Brothers and The Wilson City (ČR, SR).

    Contact:

    Denisa Strbova
    Czech Film Center
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    RETRIEVER - Cinéfondation

    TOMAS KLEIN, TOMAS MERTA
    CZ 2014 | 23 min | DCP | fiction
    FAMU, GURU FILM

    SCREENING
    22 May, 11:00
    Programme 4
    Buñuel Theatre

    CONTACT
    Anna Lisalova
    mobile: +420 723 718 484
    e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

    MARKET SCREENINGS

    HONEY NIGHT
    MEDENA NOK
    IVO TRAJKOV
    MK, CZ, SI 2015 | 89 MIN | DCP | DRAMA

    SCREENING
    19 May, 12:00
    Palais E
    19 May, 13:30
    Palais J

    CONTACT
    Robert Jazadziski – Kaval Film
    mobile: +389 70 279 092
    tel: +389 2 24 47 107
    e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
    www.kavalfilm.com.mk

    GHOUL
    PETR JAKL
    CZ, US 2015 | 86 MIN | DCP | HORROR

    SCREENING
    16 May, 18:00
    Riviera 3

    CONTACT
    Daniel Bort – Expression
    Entertainment
    mobile: +1 323 301 2792
    e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
    www.expressionent.com
    Cannes office
    LERINS Stand S3
    Tel.: +33 492 99 32 09

    SISKA DELUXE
    JAN CVITKOVIC
    SI, CZ, MK 2015 | 107 MIN | DCP | COMEDY

    SCREENING
    19 May, 13:30
    Gray 2

    CONTACT
    Arkaitz Basterra
    mobile: +420 776 139 495
    e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

    KOZA
    IVAN OSTROCHOVSKY
    SK, CZ 2015 | 75 MIN | DCP | DRAMA, ROAD
    MOVIE

    SCREENING
    17 May, 10:00
    Palais B

    CONTACT
    Patricie Pouzarova –
    Pluto Film Distribution Network
    mobile: +49 157 822 749 16
    e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
    www.plutofilm.de  
    Cannes office
    VILLAGE INT’L Pavilion No. 123

    THE WILSON CITY
    WILSONOV
    TOMAS MASIN
    CZ, SK 2015 | 115 MIN | DCP | COMEDY
     
    SCREENING
    18 May, 13:30
    Olympia 6

    CONTACT
    Petr Bilek – FilmBrigade
    mobile: +420 775 168 342
    e-mail: bilekJfilmbrigade.cz
    Lubica Orechovska – PubRes
    mobile: +421 905 639 429
    e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

    THE SNAKE BROTHERS
    KOBRY A UZOVKY
    JAN PRUSINOVSKY
    CZ 2015 | 111 MIN | DCP | DRAMA
     
    SCREENING
    18 May, 13:30
    Riviera 4

    CONTACT
    Ida Martins - Media Luna New Films
    mobile: +33 6 19 50 7562
    e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
    www.medialuna.biz
    Cannes office
    RIVIERA Stand D10
    tel.: +33 492 99 33 09

    AFERIM!
    RADU JUDE
    RO, BG, CZ 2015 | 108 MIN | DCP | DRAMA
    Silver Bear
    for Best Director
     
    SCREENING
    15 May, 16:00
    Palais I
    17 May, 15:30
    Palais J

    CONTACT
    Tassilo Hallbauer – Beta Cinema
    e-mail: betaJbetacinema.com
    Cannes office
    Grand Hôtel, Bâtiment Le Goéland,
    45 bd de la Croisette
    tel.: +33 4 93 99 55 80
    www.betacinema.com