Days of European Film Begins Its 24th Annual Outing Today

The festival opened yesterday with the Spanish film Smoke & Mirrors by the director Alberto Rodríguez. This suspenseful spy film received a number of awards, including the Silver Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival for the best acting performance in a leading role for Eduard Fernández and the Feroz Zinemaldia Award for the best film.

Three films, which were co-produced by Czech producers are worth mentioning. DEF will present the opening night of a film titled The Chronicles of Melanie by the screenwriter and director Viesturs Kairišs who will be a guest of the festival along with the Czech producer Julietta Sichel

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Another film is Ministry of Love by the director Pav Marinković. Together with him, the actor Slobodan Milovanović and the sound engineers Ludvik Bohadlo and Jan Paul will visit the festival in person.

Czech-Slovak film Little Harbour by Iveta Grófová will also be presented. This film received the Crystal Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, given by a jury composed of children within the Generation Kplus section. The film will be personally presented by Iveta Grófová, the director, and Matěj Hlaváč, the music composer.

Yallah! Underground, a documentary about an alternative music scene in the Middle East, will be presented by the director Farid Eslam.

Other guests of the festival include Giancarlo Soldi, an Italian director, will also arrive and personally present his documentary Five Wor(L)ds, which reveals the artistic worlds of five major Italian creators who have all received the golden Oscar statues.

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Jazz drummer Günter “Baby” Sommer who is the protagonist of the music documentary Als Mensch ein Solist will also make an appearance. The audience can look forward to his concert that will take place in the Royal club on Saturday.

In the selection of the delicacies of European cinema, the audience can look forward to the Greek film Chevalier, directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari. It is a peculiar film written by the most prominent contemporary Greek screenwriter Efthymis Filippou who regularly cooperates with Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth).

Me and Kaminski

Another distinctive film in this section is Me and Kaminski, a new film by Wolfgang Becker, the author of Good Bye, Lenin!, once again with Daniel Brühl in the leading role. The last year’s big winner of the Spanish Goya film awards, Truman by the director Cesc Gay, will also be presented. 

The audience can find the detailed DEF programme for each town, the list and descriptions of sections, a catalogue for download, news, information on ticket sale, information on special events, etc., at www.dnyevropskehofilmu.cz.