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Winners of Finále Plzeň 2022
The Golden Kingfisher Award for the best feature live action or animated film
SOMEWHERE OVER THE CHEMTRAILS
d. Adam Koloman Rybanský
First of all, we would like to acknowledge the film 107 Mothers, a very powerful drama by Peter Kerekes, for...

The penultimate day of Finále
The great festival atmosphere continued on Tuesday. In the TV and Internet projects category, the Festival offered titles such as Suspicion and PSH: The Infinite Story. The crime thriller Nightline with Karel Roden in the lead role thrilled the...

Window to Festival Monday
The first day of the new week kicked off with the film Victim. Actress Judit Bárdos came to present the film The Last Race, and one episode of the three-part miniseries, The King of Böhmerwald, which will be screened on Wednesday. A first episode...

Finále is halfway through
The day began with an epic fairy tale, The Old Blunderbuss Mystery 2. The film Together was presented by actors Veronika Žilková, Kamila Janovičová, Štěpán Kozub and directors David Laňka and Martin Müller. The psychological drama about life with...

What happened on Saturday?
Saturday was also full of many interesting events. Czech Television presented the teenage series, TBH, dealing with themes of bullying, and biographical mini-series, Iveta. The huge success of Jan Žižka resulted in another screening being added on...

We opened with a biographical movie
At yesterday's opening of the 35th season of Finále Plzeň, the Festival presented Il Boemo, a film depicting the life story of opera composer Josef Mysliveček, with Vojtěch Dyk in the lead role. The director of the film, Petr Václav, was present at...

Czech Republic sends Il Boemo to Oscars
Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA) selected Il Boemo as this year's Czech Oscar candidate. Period drama, written and directed by Petr Václav, will represent the Czech Republic as the official submission for the 95th Academy Awards in the...

ZOOMED on Hungary
This year, we continue with the tradition of presenting outstanding movies from the film production of our European region. This time, we focused on Hungary. We bring the winning film of the Hungarian film awards and films that resonated both in...

German Cinema at Finále Plzeň
Films from German production do not make it to our cinemas or TV screens very often. But Finále Plzeň will make up for it. Again this year, in cooperation with Cottbus Film Festival and the festival of German films in Saarbrücken, we have prepared...

Il Boemo will open Finále
This year's opening film, Il Boemo, tells the story of a courageous and purposeful man destined for the profession of a miller. He decided to defy the will of his family, to follow his dream and become a famous composer in Italy, the musical...