MOSCOW -- The world's only festival devoted exclusively to eastern European film, Germany's Cottbus Film Festival, will spotlight Czech movie in its next edition in early November, organizers said Thursday. The special focus on Czech cinema, organized in cooperation with the Czech Film Center -- an independent office funded by the national audiovisual producers association and Prague city council -- will showcase productions made since the fall of communism in 1989. "After the 'Velvet Revolution, ' the Czech Republic was the country in eastern Europe with the most emphatic new beginning for the film world as a new generation of directors took over," the festival said in a statement. Directors from what many critics call the "new" New Wave of Czech film, including earlier Cottbus discoveries such as Jan Sverak (director of Oscar winning Kolya), Sasa Gedeon (Return of the Idiot) and Petr Zelenka (Year of the Devil), will be featured.
- 2/13/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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