Finále Plzeň is a film festival based in the Czech Republic. It focuses on Czech feature and documentary films. The best film is awarded the Golden Kingfisher by a jury. It was founded in 1967 and the first year was held in 1968. The festival was held in 1970 but the Golden Kingfisher wasn't awarded. The festival wasn't held again until 1990, when 12 films were awarded the Kingfisher to represent Czech and Slovak cinematography from the 1969-1990 period.
Awards Festival jury Awarded Films: +Golden Kingfisher for the best feature filmYearFilm titleDirectorCountryOnly Czech and Slovak films are allowed to contest.Source 1968 Courage for Every Day Evald Schorm 1969 All My Compatriots Vojtěch Jasný The Deserter and the Nomads Juraj Jakubisko 1991 The Elementary School Jan Svěrák 1993 Horror Story Jaroslav Brabec 1994 The Cow Karel Kachyňa 1995 Saša Gedeon 1996 The Golet in the Valley Zeno Dostál 1997 Mňága - Happy End Petr Zelenka 1998 Buttoners Petr Zelenka 1999 The Idiot Returns Saša Gedeon 2000 Divided We Fall Jan Hřebejk 2001 Parallel Worlds Petr Vaclav Little Otik Jan Švankmajer 2002 Autumn Spring Vladimír Michálek 2003 Pupendo Jan Hřebejk 2004 Faithless Games Michaela Pavlátová 2005 The City of the Sun Martin Šulík 2006 Something Like Happiness Bohdan Sláma 2007 Dolls Karin Babinská 2008 Little Girl Blue Alice Nellis 2009 Who's Afraid of the Wolf Maria Procházková 2010 Kawasakiho růže Jan Hřebejk 2011 Kooky Jan Svěrák Eighty Letters Václav Kadrnka 2012 The House Zuzana Liová 2013 My Dog Killer Mira Fornay 2014 Like Never Before Zdeněk Tyc 2015 The Way Out Petr Vaclav 2016 Family Film Olmo Omerzu 2017 I, Olga Hepnarová Tomáš Weinreb, Petr Kazda 2018 The Line Peter Bebjak 2019 Domestique Adam Sedlák 2020 Let There Be Light Marko Škop 2021 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Radu Jude 2022 Somewhere Over the Chemtrails Adam Koloman Rybanský 2023 Brutal Heat Albert Hospodářský
+Kingfishers ex aequoRelease yearFilm titleDirectorCountrySource 1969 Adelheid František Vláčil 1970 Case for a Rookie Hangman Pavel Juráček 1970 The Sweet Games of Last Summer Juraj Herz 1970 Witchhammer Otakar Vávra 1977 Rosy Dreams Dušan Hanák 1979 Prefab Story Věra Chytilová 1980 Signum Laudis Martin Hollý 1983 The Millennial Bee Juraj Jakubisko 1987 Why? Karel Smyczek 1990 The Ear Karel Kachyňa 1990 Larks on a String Jiří Menzel 1990 Funeral Ceremonies Zdenek Sirový +Golden Kingfisher for the best documentary filmYearFilm titleDirectorSource 2007 Marcela Helena Třeštíková 2008 Citizen Havel Pavel Koutecký, Miroslav Janek 2009 Česká RAPublika Pavel Abrahám 2010 Land of Destiny Pavel Kolaja 2011 The Hardest of Choices Dagmar Smržová 2012 Love in the Grave David Vondráček 2013 Věra 68 Olga Sommerová 2014 The Great Night Petr Hátle 2015 wave vs. shore Martin Štrba 2016 Under the Sun Vitaly Mansky 2017 5 October Martin Kollar 2021 A New Shaft Jindřich Andrš 2022 How I Became a Partisan Vera Lacková Citizen Miko Robin Kvapil
+Golden Kingfisher for the best documentary film shorter than 30 minutesYearFilm titleDirectorSource 2003 Úžera Martin Řezníček 2004 Jan's Return from the Parisian Exile to Prague in the Summer of 2003¨ Kateřina Krusová 2005 Things Marta Hrubá 2006 Děti z Hartmanic Lucie Králová
+Golden Kingfisher for the best documentary film longer than 30 minutesYearFilm titleDirectorSource 2003 Hitler, Stalin a já Helena Třeštíková 2004 Kristova léta, dámy Tereza Kopáčová 2005 Kamenolom boží Břetislav Rychlík 2006 Legenda o ptačím vejci Zdeněk Novotný Bričkovský
+Golden Kingfisher for the TV Project and Internet Project - Cyclic CreationYearFilm titleDirectorSource 2015 Tajné životy Ján Sebechlebský 2016 Mamon Vladimír Michálek 2017 Kosmo Jan Bártek
+Golden Kingfisher for the TV Project and Internet Project - Non-cyclic CreationYearFilm titleDirectorSource 2015 Je to jen rock'n'roll Robert Sedláček 2016 The Midsummer Wreath Jiří Strach 2017 A Case for a Skier Lucie Bělohradská
+Golden Kingfisher for the TV Project - ComedyYearFilm titleDirectorSource 2014 Čtvrtá hvězda Jan Prušinovský, Miroslav Krobot +Golden Kingfisher for the TV Project - DramaYearFilm titleDirectorSource
+Golden Kingfisher for the TV Project Project - DramaYearFilm titleDirectorSource 2014 Cirkus Bukowsky Jan Pachl
Student jury +Student jury award for the best feature filmYearFilm titleDirectorSource 2012 Nothing Against Nothing Petr Marek 2013 DONT STOP Richard Řeřicha 2014 Like Never Before Zdeněk Tyc 2015 Schmitke Štěpán Altrichter 2016 The Little Man Radek Beran 2017 We Are Never Alone Petr Vaclav
See also
List of film festivals in the Czech Republic
References
External links Festival website