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The 24th Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest 2017 took place from March 23rd to 30th in its main venue at CineStar Andel, Prague and was followed up for a month by the Febiofest Regional Echoes with screenings in the 13 biggest Czech cities. As an audience-oriented global festival, it presented the audience with the most interesting films from the previous year from all over the world, but with a strong focus on European cinema. As every year, the festival invited many international filmmakers to introduce their films, meet with the audience after the screenings on Q&A, participate in masterclasses and on other events for a wide audience as well as forums of film professionals and film students. In 2017, the festival included 107 introductions and Q&As. The festival resolved to keep the competitive section New Europe, dedicated to first and second films by European directors. Aside from New Europe, a second competition, You’re the Filmmaker, for short films created on mobile phones and tablets by non-professional filmmakers with the objective of increasing film literacy, was organized. As in previous years there was a workshop organized with the finalists of the short film competition. In 2016, we established, in cooperation with Amnesty International Czech Republic, a third competition dedicated to films with the topic of human rights. Eight films from various program sections were selected to compete for the Amnesty International Febiofest Award. All additional activities such as master classes, lectures and workshops for professionals, students of art schools and for younger audience were intensified in 2017 under the new program department. The number of workshops has increased and some new initiatives were added, especially regarding new technologies and film. We also continued with the popular kids and family oriented section Febiofest Junior on which we co-operate intensively with Prague schools, and we also plan to spread this activity throughout the year. The festival established the institution of charity partnership in 2014. In 2017, we worked with the organization Zdravotní klaun / Health Clown, helping hospitalized children and adults, and the money from selected screenings went to its projects. We are proud to announce an important point in the history of the festival: the city of Prague included the Prague International Film Festival on the list of the six most important events in Prague (together with events like the Prague Spring classical music festival, or the Prague Quadrienale) and, for the first time, granted the festival financial support for next 4 years (2018 – 2021). Besides the city of Prague, there are several other national and local institutions the festival cooperates with, such as Czech Ministry of Culture, Czech Tourism, Czech Film Centre, Czech National Archive, Czech National Mint, Czech Association of the Film Clubs, Academy of Arts (AMU), Czech Technical University (CVUT), My Street Films, Amnesty International Czech Republic to name just a few, as well as many other national cultural institutes based in Prague. |