OBITUARY: Czech Director and Scriptwriter Václav Vorlíček
PRAGUE: Václav Vorlíček, author of several classic Czech films, especially crazy comedies and fairy tales, has died at the age of 88.
Jan Palach Wins 2018 Czech Film Critics‘ Awards
PRAGUE: Robert Sedláček’s Jan Palach won the Czech Film Critics’ Award for best film, while the best director award went to Olmo Omerzu for his road movie Winter Flies /…
FNE Market Analysis 2018: CZECH REPUBLIC
Czech cinema enjoyed domestic and international successes of both feature films and documentaries in 2018, with the Czech Film Fund effectively supporting the development and production of numerous quality films…
FNE IDF DocBloc: First Tutors of 3rd Ex Oriente Film 2018 Revelead
Marta Prus, Torstein Parelius and Mila Turajlić are among the tutors of the last of three week-long Ex Oriente Film workshop sessions, which will take place in Prague from 9…
Magenta TV Buys HBO’s Wasteland
PRAGUE: Beta Cinema sold the eight-part original drama series Wasteland / Pustina produced for the Czech branch of HBO Europe to Deutsche Telekom's Magenta TV.
Three dok.incubator Projects Selected for Sundance
PRAGUE: Three documentaries developed at the dok.incubator workshop have been selected for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2019. Nine films made it to Sundance in…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Czech Docs at FIPADOC, DocPoint Helsinki & Tallinn
Upcoming DocPoint Helsinki (28 January – 3 February 2019) included Helena Třeštíková's retrospective and Jan Gebert's When the War Comes in its programme, while DocPoint Tallin (30 January - 3…
Toman Tops Czech Lion Awards Nominations
PRAGUE: Toman by Ondřej Trojan tops the 26th edition of the Czech Lion awards with 13 nominations. The winners of the 26th Czech Lion awards, organised by the Czech Film…
National Film Museum Opens in Prague
PRAGUE: The new NaFilM National Film Museum located in the very centre of Prague was opened for the public on 15 January 2019.
FNE IDF DocBloc: White World, Amour and War at BIDF 2019
The Budapest International Documentary Festival will show East Silver Caravan titles and Silver Eye nominees in its competition from 28 January to 3 February 2019. The theme of its 5th…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Projects Selected for East Doc Platform 2019
Here are the projects selected for the 8th edition of East Doc Platform, the largest coproduction, funding and distribution platform tailor-made for Central and East European documentaries, which will take…
Jan Palach Tops Czech Critics‘ Awards Nods
PRAGUE: The Czech/Slovak drama Jan Palach directed by Robert Sedláček got six nominations for the Czech Film Critics‘Awards. The awards will be announced on 2 February 2019.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Another Success for Slovenian Doc The Last Ice Hunters
Slovenian documentary The Last Ice Hunters, which captures the vanishing world of the Inuit communities of Eastern Greenland, got two awards at the Autrans International Mountain Film Festival.
GRANTS: Czech Film Fund Gives Highest Funding to Havel Biopic
PRAGUE: The Czech Film Fund will support the production of eight feature films with a total sum of 2,474,386 EUR / 64 m CZK. The highest support of 560,603 EUR…
Barrandov Studio to Coproduce Four New Czech Films
PRAGUE: Barrandov Studio will coproduce new projects by Agnieszka Holland, Zdeněk Jiráský and David Ondříček, and also an animated film by Denisa Grimmová and Jan Bubeníček in 2019.
dok.incubator Calls for Applications
PRAGUE: Long documentaries in the rough-cut stage can apply for the dok.incubator workshop 2019 until 30 January 2019.
FNE IDF DocBloc: From Miner to Programmer: “I’ve Overcome My Own Prejudice,” Says Jindřich Andrš
Click HERE for the interview with Jindřich Andrš, the director of the documentary The Last Shift of Thomas Hisem, about the eponymous worker’s last day of work before a coal…
MIDPOINT Shorts 2019 Selection Announced
PRAGUE: Four projects from the Czech Republic and Hungary have been selected for the MIDPOINT Shorts 2019 programme.
GRANTS: Czech Film Fund Supports Three Debut Films
PRAGUE: Ten debut films with an overall request for 50m CZK applied for support in the call for first films. The Czech Film Fund allocated 10 m CZK in total…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Special Screening of My Granny from Mars
PRAGUE: My Granny from Mars by Aleksandar Mihalkovich, which was banned in Belarus, gets a special solidarity screening in Prague.
