The festival brings several changes including a new organizer led by its director, Eva Veruňková Košařová. The program focuses on screening competition films, showcasing the full Czech feature cinema production of 2015 and a selection of Slovak films. A new concept also brings screenings outside the competition categories, which are not limited to Czech and Slovak cinema.
Festival ZOOM will offer films that won at international and national film festivals. Other sections are Czech Traces in International Coproduction and Exporting Beauty.
The films will be competing in the following categories: Best Feature Live Action or Animated Film, Best Documentary, Best Series and Non-series TV project. The chairman of the international jury that awards the Golden Kingfisher is the writer and producer Mike Reiss, the creator of The Simpsons and Ice Age.
Golden Kingfisher Best Feature Live Action or Animated Film Lineup:
David (Czech Republic)
Directed by Jan Těšitel
Produced by Sugar Division
Coproduced by FAMU and Magic Lab
Supported by the Czech State Cinematography Fund
Home Care (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
Directed by Slávek Horák
Produced by TVORBA films
Coproduced by Czech Television, Fog´n´Desire Films Sokol Kollár RTVS, Svoboda@Williams.
Supported by the Czech State Cinematography Fund, the Slovak Audiovisual Fund and RWE
Eva Nova (Slovakia, Czech Republic)
Directed by Marko Škop
Produced by Artileria
Coproduced by Sirius Films
Supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Slovak Ministry of Culture and the Czech State Cinematography Fund
Gangster Ka: the African (Czech Republic)
Directed by Jan Pachl
Produced by Movie
Coproduced by Czech Television
The Snake Brothers (Czech Republic)
Directed by Jan Prušinovský
Produced by Offside Men
Coproduced by the Czech Television and RWE
Koza (Slovakia, Czech Republic)
Directed by Ivan Ostrochovský
Produced by sentimentalfilm, endorfilm
Coproduced by the Czech Television, RTVS and Punkchart Film
The Little Man (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
Directed by Radek Beran
Produced by Bedna Films
Coproduced by the Czech Television and Fantomas Production
The Greedy Tiffany (Czech Republic)
Directed by Andy Fehu
Produced by Company F
Supported by the Czech State Cinematography Fund
Chasing Fifty (Czech Republic)
Directed by Vojtěch Kotek
Produced by Format Factory
Coproduced by Europe Easy Energy, MagicLab and Studio Beep C
Family Film (Czech Republic, France, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia)
Directed by Olmo Omerzu
Produced by endorfilm
Coproduced by Rouge International, 42film, Arsmedia, Punkchart films, Czech Television
Seven Ravens (Slovakia)
Directed by Alice Nellis
Produced by Attack Film
Wilson City (Slovakia, Czech Republic)
Directed by Tomáš Mašín
Produced by Pubres
Coproduced by Film Brigade and Czech Television
Supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, the Czech Film Fund, Slovak Public TV
Lost in Munich (Czech Republic)
Directed by Petr Zelenka
Produced by Lucky Man Films
Coproduced by the Czech Television and Barrandov Studio
Supported by the Czech Film Fund
