“Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami” will be screened at the opening ceremony on 5th June at the Budućnost basketball court in Njegoš park – an unusual documentary by Sophie Fiennes about Grace Jones, a unique figure whose impact on pop culture is immeasurable.

ZLIN: A Kenyan/German coproduction for the youth audience, Supa Modo directed by Likarion Wainaina, won the Golden Slipper for the Best International Feature Film at the 57th Zlin IFF for Children and Youth, which took place 25 May - 2 June 2018. The film also won the prize of the Ecumenical Jury.

ZLIN: Executive Director of the Czech Television Petr Koliha talked exclusively to FNE about the success and future or the Déčko children's channel.

ZLIN: French sales agent Planet Nemo Animation picked up the animated Czech/Belgian/Russian coproduction Harvie and the Magic Museum directed by Martin Kotík and Inna Evlannikova.

PRAGUE: Twelve films are competing in the East of the West competition at the 53rd Karlovy Vary IFF.

Petr Horky won the 2018 Pavel Kotecky Award.

ZLIN: Winter Flies, a new film from Olmo Omerzu, coproduced by the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, France and Poland, is being readied for a summer 2018 release.

ZLIN: Building teen attendance in cinemas is one of the goals of the New Cinema 2018-2019 project, designed to educate cinema operators on improving youth film audience numbers, presented at a special seminar during 58th Zlin IFF, running through 3 June 2018.

Czech Feature Film Grants, May 2018

CINEDAYS Festival of European Film was recently recognized as “Competitive film festival specialized in European first and second feature films” by the General Assembly of FIAPF held in February 2018.