Spotlight on the Czech Republic

Bringing together leading professionals from the Czech film and television industries, as well as representatives of the Karlovy Vary IFF, the delegation will take part in CineLink Industry Days’ programme of curated one-to-one meetings, networking events and co-production forums. Throughout the week, the delegation will connect with international industry professionals, building new partnerships and strengthening creative and business ties between Czechia and the wider regional and international film community. 

“I’m truly happy that the Czech Republic returns with a strong presence to the Sarajevo Film Festival and its industry programme CineLink this year. Our goal is to build on the successful cooperation between our industries in the past and strengthen ties while opening new ways of working together,“ said Markéta Šantrochová, Head of Czech Film Center.

Members of the Czech delegation are as follows:

producers Wanda Kaprálová (CLAW films), Klára Mamojková (CLAW films), Kamila Dohnalová (MAUR film), Tomáš Pertold (Perfilm), Natália Pavlove (Other Stories), Gala Kebakoska (Other Stories), Rafaela Radojčić (Cineart TV Prague), Radovan Síbrt (PINK) and Hanka Kastelicová (HBO/Warner Bros Discovery) along with representatives of Karlovy Vary IFF Vojtěch Kočárník (Programmer) and Hugo Rosák (Head of Industry Programs).

Czech Film Center/Czech Audiovisual Fund will be represented by Vítězslav Chovanec (vitezslav@filmcenter.gov.cz).

More about the members of the delegation >> HERE.

Docu Talents from the East

The presentation of upcoming documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe, organised by the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, gives floor to 7 new feature-length creative documentary projects, in production or post-production. Czech Republic is represented in the selection by Love Exposed by Filip Remunda.

List of selected projects >> HERE.

Docu Rough Cut Boutique

For 14 years now, the Sarajevo Film Festival has been partnering with HBO to award a cash prize of EUR 2,000 to a selected project in the program Docu Rough Cut Boutique.

In addition, the Institute of Documentary Film grants the winning film inclusion in the East Doc Caravan, IDF's curated festival distribution initiative for outstanding documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe. The selected film will receive tailored festival strategy support, submissions to relevant international festivals, and promotion through the East Doc Caravan network and its online video library, helping maximise its international festival exposure.

List of selected project >> HERE.

The Official selection

The Adriatic Audience competition section offers two films with Czech involvement: Karlovy Vary-premiered drama Only Beautiful Things to Look At (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary) directed by Ivan Ostrochovský, and Made in EU (Bulgaria, Germany, Czech Republic) directed by Stefan Komandarev, both co-produced on the Czech side by Negativ.