FRESH FILM FEST / 25.–29. 8.
The 7th annual of the International Festival of First Features and Student Films will be held in Prague, Czech Republic from August 25th to 29th, 2010.
5 days, 7 screening venues, 150 films, 50 films in official competitive sections
Fresh Film Fest is an international competitive film festival, which focuses on student and first feature films. In 5 days, the festival aims to provide a wide portrait of contemporary young world cinema and hosts professional non-public presentations. Up to 150 films with around titles in five competitive sections of the Official Selection are screened during the festival. Special film programs and feature film openings are accompanying the student and first films selection.
Despite its short existence, the festival is a follow-up to a more than 30-year old tradition of CILECT RIFE International Student Film Festival held in Karlovy Vary. It both keeps extensive contacts with the most prominent film schools (VGIK, FEMIS, FAMU, NFTS, Columbia) and invests in discovering of young talents from regions with low audiovisual potential (Africa, Latin America, CEE region).
Fresh Film Fest annually offers a solid and varied array of Central and Eastern European student films with the special attention the Visegrad Group countries and to Germany. Fresh Film Fest is also the creator and executive curator of the official students section "Fresh Selection – The promising five" at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the second biggest film festive event in the Central Europe after the Berlinale. Similar to prestigious student sections of Cannes Film Festival and the Berlinale, KVIFF and Fresh Film Fest present the world’s most interesting young filmmakers. Within this five films selection, one film produced by a Czech film school is presented to introduce the next Czech talent for the universal world‘s cinema.
Films and Program Sections
Fresh Film Fest 2010 will award four prizes in four competitive programmes, Fresh Generation, Main Competition, Theatre Optique and the new section Fresh Czech.
The programme out of competition will offer programs of short student films with the main theme of this year's festival, Heroes, short films by Daniel Mulloy, a member of the Main Jury, retrospective of the Rosto A.D Studio and Face 2 Face will focus on student and teachers from Czech, Romanian and Slovakian film schools. Heroes of the British film will be presented in the section called Critics‘ Circle Choice. Fresh Classics offers feature films from around the world, Christoffer Boe's retrospective and the film lesson will be given by Petr Zelenka.