Czech Films at Cannes 2018

07 May 2018

Film Industry

Czech Films at Cannes 2018

Film Industry

Czech Films at Cannes 2018

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This year, one minority co-production and a newly restored version of Jan Němec’s debut film will be shown. Furthermore, festival will pay tribute to famous director Miloš Forman on the festival opening day. Three other movies will be screened at Marché du film.

FUGUE
SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE
by Agnieszka Smoczyńska /PL, CZ, SE 2018

The psychological thriller depicts the story of Alicia who has rebuilt a free-spirited way of life in the sake of a memory loss. Two years later she returns to her family, against her will, to take on her role as wife, mother and daughter. However, her husband and son do not recognize a woman looking familiar but acting like a stranger. Feelings of alienation, love and revelations will spark Alicia's inner flame.

DIAMONDS OF THE NIGHT
CANNES CLASSICS
by Jan Němec /CZ 1964

An existential drama of two Jewish boys who escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately they are hunted down by a group of old, armed home-guard members.

 


TRIBUTE TO MILOŠ FORMAN
The festival will pay tribute to famous director Miloš Forman, who recently passed away, on the opening day at the Cinema de la Plage. It has been 50 years since his film comedy The Firemen‘s Ball took part in the main competition of Cannes Film Festival in 1968, whose then 21st edition was prematurely terminated due to the turbulent political development in France.

MARCHÉ DU FILM
Apart from the festival programme, Czech films are also screened at Marché du film: animated HARVIE AND THE MAGIC MUSEUM (by Martin Kotík and Inna Evlannikova / CZ, BE, RU 2017), the winning film of this year’s Berlinale shot in Czech co-production TOUCH ME NOT (by Adina Pintilie / RO, DE, CZ, BG, FR 2018) and THE INTERPRETER (by Martin Šulík / SK, CZ, AT 2018).

PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE: RADOVAN SÍBRT
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 Radovan Síbrt (1975): He graduated at Faculty of Arts, Charles University and Department of Direction at Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He co-founded along with Alžběta Karásková the production company PINK in 2010. Síbrt co-produced the Berlinale-winning feature, psychological drama Touch Me Not (2018) by Romanian director Adina Pintilie. Another film produced by Síbrt is When the War Comes (Jan Gebert, 2018), which was also screened at this year’s Berlinale.

 

In the past, for example, Pavla Janoušková Kubečková, Jan Macola, Tomáš Hrubý, Viktor Tauš, Radim Procházka, Jiří Konečný, etc. participated in this program.

CZECH FILM CENTER at MARCHÉ DU FILM 2018
Come and visit us at Czech & Slovak Pavilion No. 131 at Village International.

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

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

Jana Krivenkaja – Project Manager
jana.k@filmcenter.cz, +420 724 329 949

Czech Film Center
division of the Czech Film Fund promoting Czech cinema worldwide

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