Febiofest 2017: Interactive Film and Indie Music

The industrial arts and sports complex Radlická Kulturní Sportovna, located near Febiofest’s main venue CineStar Praha – Anděl, will, for the first time this year, host the festival’s accompanying program, Off, across its seven days.

Director Abel Ferrara

Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor

Febiofest will also offer visitors two exhibitions bringing together film and art. Czechoslovak posters for American films of the 1970s and 1980s will be on display from March 24th to April 2nd at the Portheimka gallery, while an exhibition entitled The Second Muse, or When Actors and Singers Paint and Take Photographs will be held at the Strahov Monastery Winter Refectory from March 25th to April 30th.

The distribution pre-premieres include films in all genres, from The Zookeeper’s Wife, a drama set in WWII Warsaw, to the courtroom drama Denial with Rachel Weisz, to the northern black comedy Small Town Killers, to the action film Trespass Against Us, starring Michael Fassbender.

Sing Street

The festival has confirmed a number of celebrity guests including Love Actually producer Duncan Kenworthy, Czech film legend Jan Tříska, directors Agnieszka Holland and Abel Ferrara, David Cronenberg cinematographer Peter Suschitzky, and Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen.

Febiofest will open on March 23 at the Municipal House in Prague with a screening of Holland’s Spoor.

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