3Kino FilmFest 2023
10th edition of 3Kino FilmFest 2023
3Kino FilmFest has been bringing the best of Central European culture to the Czech Republic for 10 years. Film, art, music, exhibitions, theatre, workshops, personal meetings with leading creators, world premieres.
3KinoFilm Fest is a competitive film festival which takes place in the historic center of Prague and for 10 years it has focused exclusively on the cinematography of the countries of the Visegrad region. The main goal is to draw attention to the high quality of the cinematography of the entire region and to stimulate the interest of mainly young people in the contemporary culture of Central Europe. The program board of the festival (CZ, PL, SK, HU) nominates 18 films for the competition in the feature film category every year. Subsequently, an international jury will select the three best films of the region. An important part of the festival is also the accompanying program, which presents important personalities from the field of culture. The added value of the festival is the linking of film and art of the Central European region.
This year’s jubilee 10th edition will take place on November 6-11 in the cinema halls of the Municipal Library in Prague.
The opening ceremony is taking place on November 6 in the exclusive premises of the Lord Mayor’s Residence of the city of Prague on Mariánské náměstí. At the opening evening in Prague, we will reveal unknown/rediscovered paintings by Tamara Lempicka and Jan Zrzavý to the public and present a unique posthumous mask of Milan Rastislav Štefánik. The curator is a historian prof. Ivo Barteček (CZ).
The closing ceremony with the announcement of the winners and the presentation of prizes is taking place on November 11 in the Clam-Gallas Palace in Prague.
The ceremonial opening of the 10th annual 3Kino FilmFest is also an event that goes beyond Central European borders. The worldwide premiere will be on November 6. In 2023, the long-awaited film JAGNA was released. A brand new saga by the duo of directors Dorothy Kobiela Welchman and Hugh Welchman, from whose studio comes the Oscar-nominated film Loving Vincent. This hot new feature is created using the unique technique of animated painting, and after its presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, it will have its world premiere at the 10th annual 3Kino FilmFest. A bonus is the subsequent meeting and discussion evening with the authors and producers of the film and an extraordinary accompanying program in which the pictures and scenes in which the film Jagna was created will be presented “live”. At the same time, it is an opportunity to remember the important Polish novelist Władysław Stanisław Reymont, the author of the novel The Peasants, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924.
The annual collaboration with graphic design students brings great inspiration and innovative ideas. Therefore, for its 10th birthday, the festival has given itself a new graphic look and a small modification of the name.
The festival 3KinoFest 2022 will take place on November 9 - 18 2022
It is spread over several cinema halls in Prague
- Městská knihovna v Praze (Mariánské náměstí 1, Prague 1)
- 3KinoCentrála (V Jámě 699/1, Praha 1)
- U Nováků passage (Vodičkova 28, Prague 1)
- Humanita (Novákových 489/20, Prague 8)
DRAMATURGY
Since 2014, the international film festival has presented a selection of important feature films from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, which reflects on mutual creative competition. The festival consists of competitive and non-competitive sections, industry and accompanying programs. For a long time, 3KinoFest brings a selection of the best contemporary and classic Central European films, which are not normally available in cinemas, although they have won important awards and their creators or actors belong to the world’s top filmmakers. An integral part of the festival screening are film debates, which create a dialogue with the viewer in relation to the social and cultural context.
One of the components of the festival is the meeting of the audience with creators and producers. In the past, 3KinoFest hosted such personalities as Krzysztof Zanussi, Lech Majewski, Wojciech Smarzowski, Václav Marhoul, Ibolya Fekete and many others.
WINNERS AND AWARDS
A jury composed of experts and film professionals (e.g. Agnieszka Holland, Beata Parkanová, Vica Kerekes, Adam Dvořák, Petr Dubecký and others) annually selects the winning films in three categories:
- The Best Film Award – Award for the best feature film,
- Golden Debut – Award for the best feature debut,
- Special Award – Special prize of the jury
The directors of the winning films will receive a financial prize and a bronze statuette with a semi-precious stone from the workshop of the Polish academic sculptor Tomasz Kocłega.
ACCOMPANYING PROGRAMME
This year’s attractive novelty is the revival of the U Nováků passage (especially the area of the court in front of the ABC theater), where the majority of the accompanying program will take place (Vodičkova 28, Prague 1).
Part of the ceremonial opening of the festival will be the “Exhibition of one painting” by the Polish art deco painter Tamara de Łempická. It is a newly discovered painting from a private collection, which will be exceptionally exhibited only for 24 hours in the lounge of the Municipal House. The curator of the exhibition is prof. Ivo Barteček.
Every year, 3KinoFest looks for attractive topics to create a wave of interest among its audience. For the year 2022, the leitmotif Visionaries of the present was established with the aim of drawing attention to personalities whose thinking significantly influenced and continues to influence contemporary world production. As part of the non-competitive section, there will be film screenings and discussions related to the life and work of Czech-German writer Franz Kafka and Polish writer Bruno Schulz. Two representatives of modern literature of Jewish origin who have never met in person, but are linked by a similar fate.
This year’s guest is Ukraine Film fest, thanks to which the festival will present films on the current topic of the conflict in Ukraine.
The festival will also offer the audience a projection of archival films from a film strip (16mm) of unknown shots of Prague selected by dramaturg Martin Plitz about Prague passages, defunct Prague cinemas and well-known and unknown corners of Prague. Film screenings will take place in the intimate studio space of Retro 3Kino (V Jámě 699/1).
The accompanying program will offer the audience, for example, a relaxing yoga exercise with actress Petra Špindlerová to film music, a workshop for children (14-20 years old) How to make an animated film or a concert by the Polish jazz quartet Brass Riders.
Traditionally, exhibitions will also take place during the entire duration of the festival – the Barrandov Fundus costume exhibition, the “Václav Havel” photo exhibition through the eyes of photographer Oldřich Škácha, and an exhibition of film posters by students of the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Art and Design of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, curated by prof. Karel Mišek.
As part of the industry program, there will be a panel discussion with director Tomasz Wińský and ČT dramaturg Zuzana Kopečková, and a meeting of Czech and Polish producers (e.g. Julie Žáčková – Unit and Sofa, Ewa Jastrzebska, Václav Marhoul, ČT producers).
Project partners: Municipal Library in Prague, Polish Institute in Prague, Slovak Institute in Prague, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Prague, Slovak Film Institute, National Film Institute Hungary NFI, Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych (Gdynia), Solanin film festival, Argo publisher, cinema Humanita, Prague 1 Municipal District, Prague 8 Municipal District, Visegrad Fund.
The patronage of the cultural event was taken over by the Mayor of Prague Zdeněk Hřib, the Capital City of Prague (MgA. Hana Třeštíková), Michaela Šojdrová – Member of the European Parliament and member of the Committee for Culture and Education, Ministry of Culture of Czech republic (promised), MKiDNS (Ministry of Culture PL).
3KinoFest 2021
November 3-11 in the cinemas (if possible):
- Municipal Library of Prague (2 halls)
- Kino Atlas (2 halls)
November 12-21 online @ CINEMAPORT
2021 will bring the 8th year of 3KinoFest, the only competition film festival focused on the cinematography of the Visegrad Region, taking place in Prague. The festival consists of the competition & non-competition section and accompanying program. In 2021, one of the topics of the accompanying program will remind 100th anniversary of the birth of Stanislaw Lem, a renowned Polish sci-fi writer whose books inspired filmmakers all over Central Europe. Besides projections in the cinema (if possible), online screenings are planned via the 3Kino online platform named CINEMAPORT. Most of them will be available for the whole V4.
The competition will present from 16 to 20 films from the four Visegrad countries, selected by the organizer and partners (each for their own country) based on the previously set rules (feature film, Visegrad countries, or co-production, not older than 24 months).
3KinoFest 2021 will award winners in three categories:
– Best Feature Film
– Golden Debut
– Special Prize of the Jury.
The Jury will consist of film professionals from the Visegrad countries. In the past year, members of the jury were Agnieszka Holland, Maciej Stuhr, Livia Bielovic, Martin Pomothy, and Jerzy Armata.
The follow-up plan after the festival includes the “Festival Echoes”. While the festival based in Prague, the echoes will take place in the three other capitals of the Visegrad region: in Warsaw (Kino Kultura), Bratislava (The Lumière Cinema) and Budapest (specific cinema yet to be confirmed by the Hungarian partner). The echoes will also take place in selected Czech cities. The festival echoes will introduce the best of 3KinoFest 2021 in those cities physically if the situation with COVID-19 allows.
Online festival events will be recorded and will also be available on the website for the whole year for free without geographical limitations.
Partners of the project are:
Stowarzyszenie Solanizatorzy
Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich / Kino Kultura
Slovenský filmový ústav
Nemzeti Filmintézet Közhasznú Nonprofit Zrt.
