This year’s Finále Film Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary, offering once again full immersion in Czech film. So if you have a cinephile interest in the country that brought us Miloš Forman, Věra Chytilová, Jiří Menzel and Jan Švankmajer, the city of Plzeň is the place to be next week!
Animated drama Alois Nebel competes for this year’s Golden Kingfisher Award
The Feature Film Competition includes Martin Šulík’s Gypsy, coming straight from last year’s Karlovy Vary award list, or A Night too (…)
♦ Introduction
This blog is a place for all contributors of Nisimazine to continue to write, photograph, make video and discuss cinema together after the workshops. An extension of the magazine, this is a free space to keep sharing new insights and experiences through reviews, essays, quotes, interviews and festival reports. You can join any conversation by posting comments. So…, let’s go !
Sunday 22 April 2012Finále Festival Plzeň 2012
By Andreea Dobre (Romania), 22 April 2012 | Finale Plzeň 2011 |Translations: [en]
Friday 29 April 2011Interview of Jan Svěrák, director of Kooky
By Olivier Croughs (Belgium), 29 April 2011 | Finale Plzeň 2011 |Translations: [en]
Jan Svěrák presented Kooky at the 24th edition of the Finále Festival. The day before the closing ceremony, we collected some information about the technique, the universe and the meaning of this modern puppets fairytale. At that time, he didn’t know he would gain the most prestigious awards of the festival.
Jan Sverák is one of the most successful directors in Czech Republic. He owns more awards than he actually directed films. Here in the Finále Czech films festival, the trend seems to go on (…)
Jan Sverák is one of the most successful directors in Czech Republic. He owns more awards than he actually directed films. Here in the Finále Czech films festival, the trend seems to go on (…)
Innocence, by Jan Hřebejk
By Olivier Croughs (Belgium), 29 April 2011 | Finale Plzeň 2011 |Translations: [en]
In this sinners world, what would be more irreconcilable than innocence and human nature ? A pretty easy Judeo-Christian statement to make. Nonetheless it turned out to be the major axis of the last Jan Hrebejk’s feature film. Putting things this way might give a simple and yet, non-impressive picture of it. Fortunately, Innocence is more about the how than the what.
In the Prague suburb, Tomas seems to live the perfect middle-class life among a smiling advertising-type family. He took his (…)
In the Prague suburb, Tomas seems to live the perfect middle-class life among a smiling advertising-type family. He took his (…)
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