Zlín Film Festival
| Location | Zlín, Czech Republic |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1961 |
| No. of films | 363 |
| Website | www |
Zlín Film Festival, also known as the International Film Festival for Children and Youth (Czech: Mezinárodní festival filmů pro děti a mládež) belongs among the oldest and largest events of its kind worldwide. Founded in 1961 in Zlín, the former Czechoslovak hotbed of filmmaking for children and youth. The festival gradually acquired international presence and attention. The audience consists mainly of children and youth from the Zlín region, but also university students and adult visitors to whom late-night screening slot with appropriate dramaturgy are devoted. More and more film professionals from all over the world come to Zlín.
57th Zlín Film Festival takes place from May 26 to June 2, 2017.
56th Zlín Film Festival - International Film Festival for Children and Youth took place from May 27 to June 3, 2016 and it was attended by 125,000 visitors and 53 film delegations. The screenings were attended by 41,000 viewers. The supporting event with the highest number of visitors was the concert of the band Slza. Two of this year’s new features, the French Alley and open-air dancing were a welcome refreshment of this year’s supporting programme.
The most successful film of this year's 56th Zlín Film Festival was the Israeli film Abulele, taking a total of three festival awards - the Audience Award, the Children's Jury Award and the Ecumenical Jury Award.
This year’s Zlín Film Festival was devoted to the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Zlín film studios and to French cinema.
A total of 361 live-action, animated and combined films from 56 countries of the world were screened at the 56TH ZLÍN FILM FESTIVAL 2016.
The establishment of the tradition of a regular film festival in Zlín was the logical result of efforts by local filmmakers to present their work in a local atmosphere. The first year of the festival took place in 1961, exactly 20 years after another film festival had been carried out in Zlín, which went by the name of Film Harvest (Czech: Filmové žně) or Zliennale. Although these precursors of later film festivals in Zlín were held in the war years 1940–1941, they attracted a considerable amount of attention among audiences and the filmmakers themselves. The Film Harvest was graced with the presence of most of the stars of that period's highly productive and internationally successful Czech and Slovak films. The main program was held in Zlín's Grand Cinema, which was the largest cinema in Central Europe at that time. The capacity of the building, completed in 1932, was over 2,500 moviegoers! The Grand Cinema screens film to this day, and regularly hosts, among other events,the opening ceremony of the festival.
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