Festival winning films 2013
THE 53rd ZLÍN FILM FESTIVAL COMPLETE SCORE SHEET
THE 53rd ZLÍN FILM FESTIVAL IN NUMBERS
The 53rd ZLÍN FILM FESTIVAL offered 354 screenings, at which were shown a total of 299 live-action, animated and combined live-action/animated films from 53 countries of the world, including 6 world premieres and 25 International premieres. A total of 160 films were shown in the Czech Republic for the first time.
The main festival program and supporting events were accompanied by a great amount of interest from visitors of all generations. Total attendance reached the extraordinary number of 95.000 people, out of which attendance at film screenings had 65.000 cinema-goers (including the Cinema-train and projections in partner towns). This year, 30.000 visitors didn't allow themselves to miss the attractive supporting program.
The 53rd ZLÍN FILM FESTIVAL had 1.820 accredited guests from all over the world.
CELEBRITIES AT THE 53rd ZLÍN FILM FESTIVAL
The predominant non-competition section Days of Danish Cinema was accompanied by the personal attendance of actors Cyron Melville (You & Me Forever, Curse of the Seeress, Fightgirl Ayse, Love and Rage, Triple Dare) and Pelle Hvenegaard (Pelle the Conqueror); chairman of the jury producer Per Holst; juror, screenwriter and director Christian Dyekjaer; juror and director Jannik Hastrup; the young actress Frederikke Dahl Hansen (You & Me Forever); and Jacob S. Breuning from the Danish Film Institute - DFI Children & Youth. A delegation of the artists Lotte Svendsen, Mette Agnethe Horn, Samuel Seifert-Heller accompanied the third installment of the film Max Embarrassing to Zlín.
Additional foreign artists also personally presented their films in Zlín, e.g. Swiss actor Max Hubacher (The Foster Boy), Belgian director Vincent Bal and Dutch actress Jessica Zeylmaker (Nono, the Zigzag Kid), Swedish screenwriter and director Stephan Apelgren (Eskil & Trinidad) and many others.
A considerable amount of attention was also created by popular actors and actresses from the Czech Republic, among them Jiřina Bohdalová, Sandra Nováková, Marek Eben, Jiří Mádl and Jiří Dvořák. The festival welcomed directors Pavel Jandourek and Jiří Stracha, writer Arnošt Goldflam, versatile filmmaker Miloslav Šmídmajer and the creative duo responsible for the legendary Lucky Four, the married Němeček couple. Also sitting in the jury were actresses Barbora Poláková and Danica Jurčová.