Czech Film Center and Czech Films at Cannes 2017

18 May 2017

Film Industry

Czech Film Center and Czech Films at Cannes 2017

Film Industry

Czech Film Center and Czech Films at Cannes 2017

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In 2017 there two Czech films and minority co-productions are part of the most important sections. Out by György Kristof was selected for Un Certain Regard, Atlantis, 2003 will be shown within Cinéfondation. Four other movies will be screened at Marché du film.

OUT
UN CERTAIN REGARD
by György Kristóf / SK, HU, CZ 2017
Ágoston, a family man in his fifties, sets off to wander through Eastern Europe with the hope of finding a job and fulfilling his dream of catching a big fish. He ends up in the Baltics, with nothing but sea-salt and wind behind his collar. His journey pulls him deeper and deeper into a swell of bizarre events to finally meet a friendly woman, a Russian acquaintance with unfriendly intentions and a sad earless stuffed rabbit. Waves spread over the sand, and retreat slowly.
 

ATLANTIS, 2003
CINÉFONDATION
by Michal Blaško / SK, CZ 2017
2003, four years before Slovakia entered the Schengen Area. Martin and Denisija, a young couple from Ukraine, are trying to get illegaly to Germany through Slovakia, like many people before them. The border between Slovakia and Ukraine will be in a couple of years one of the most secured borders in Europe, but in 2003 it is still open for smugglers and for people hoping to find a new life in Western Europe. Martin and Denisija both dream about getting to Germany, a place they've never been to, both ready to sacrifice everything they have to reach this destination.
 

MARCHÉ DU FILM
Apart from the festival programme, Czech films are also screened at Marché du film: A PROMINENT PATIENT (by Julius Ševčík / CZ, SK 2016), SPOOR (by Agnieszka Holland / PL, DE, CZ, SE, SK 2017), LITTLE HARBOUR (by Iveta Grófová / SK, CZ 2017) and ICE MOTHER (by Bohdan Sláma / CZ, SK, FR 2017).

PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE: PAVLA JANOUŠKOVÁ KUBEČKOVÁ
European Film Promotion and its member organisations have again selected 20 of the most promising up-and-coming European producers to take part in EFP's high-profile networking platform Producers on the Move at the Cannes Film Festival.
One of the producers of 2017 season is Pavla Janoušková Kubečková (b. 1985). She studied Journalism and Media Studies at Charles University, and Film Production at FAMU. Pavla took part of the 2017 EAVE Producers Workshop. In 2009 she founded nutprodukce, together with Tomáš Hrubý. Nutprodukce is the winner of multiple Czech Lions, including the 2013 Czech Oscar entry, Burning Bush, directed by Agnieszka Holland. Also in 2013, their animated film Pandas took third prize in the Cinéfondation selection at Cannes. In 2017, Wasteland, an original TV series for HBO Europe, won the Czech Lion for best TV series, and their co-production with Poland, Spoor (Pokot), also directed by Holland, received the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize at Berlinale 2017.

ANNECY GOES TO CANNES: EVEN MICE BELONG IN HEAVEN
Annecy will be part of Goes to Cannes, during the Marché du Film, allowing the Festival and Mifa to continue supporting animated features. The event will present five animated works in progress and will take place on Friday 19th May at 10:00 am.
One of the selected project is Czech-French-German co-production Even Mice Belong in Heaven, which will be presented by producers Vladimír Lhoták (Fresh Films) and Alexandre Charlet (Les Films du Cygne).
Synopsis: After an unfortunate accident, a little mouse and a fox meet in animal heaven. In this new world, they have to clean themselves of their natural instincts and follow a path into a new life. They then become the world’s best friends and overcome what should be impossible.


CZECH FILM CENTER at MARCHÉ DU FILM 2017
Come and visit us at Czech & Slovak Pavilion No. 133 at Village International.

Markéta Šantrochová - Head of CFC
marketa@filmcenter.cz, +420 724 329 948, May 17 - 25

Barbora Ligasová - Festival Relations - Feature Films
barbora@filmcenter.cz, +420 778 487 863, May 17 - 27

Martin Černý - Festival Relations - Documentary & Short Films
martin@filmcenter.cz, +420 778 487 864, May 18 - 27

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