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Studio Béla opened in the Hungarian Institute in Prague on Thursday 1st March with a projection of the saucy film The House of Tolerance. Studio Béla is a cinema that wants to continue the diverse tradition of Prague film clubs. According to the organizers of the project, Studio Béla was founded as a result of the need to create space which would not show only those films that break records in the number of sold tickets. On the contrary, it is there to show films that have often been forgotten, films dealing with serious topics, experimental films or films that stand out in another way.

During the 19 years of its existence, Febiofest has won the hearts of many people and indeed directly influenced their lives. “This year the jury has amongst its members a woman who developed a close relationship with a male jury member a few years ago and now they have a child. There is no doubt that this child will become a great movie fan as well,” said the festival’s director Fero Fenič.

Febiofest is the only festival in the CR and probably also the only one in Europe which in its 3D section presents productions from outside Hollywood. It is thus a unique opportunity to see something else than just the typical commercial films.

The Festival’s programme will be released on 7th March; advance sale of tickets begins on 14th March. We can look forward to Nanni Moretti, the movie A Night Too Young by Olmo Omerzu or Jiří Krejčík’s retrospective.

Now in its 14th year, the International Human Rights One World Documentary Film Festival chose fundamentally pressing topics. The documentaries will focus on protests and unrest in various parts of the world, and want to highlight that the aims and means of protest action, be it in Bahrain, Greece, US or elsewhere, have one thing in common: young people who are demanding for positive changes in the current world establishment.

Italian actor and director Nanni Moretti, who became famous in 2001 in Cannes with his movie Son’s Room and won the Golden Palm award, will become one of the main guests of the 19th year of International Film Festival Febiofest.

La Pelicula festival is held between 14th and 19th February in Světozor Cinema

This year’s Eiga-sai, a Japanese film festival which takes place from 20th to 26th January in Lucerna Cinema, gives homage to the film director Takeshi Kitano. The festival will open with his film Hana-bi (Fireworks), which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1998. All in all, the film festival will show 14 films, both feature and animation. Some of them will be shown for the first time ever in the Czech Republic.

This year’s first film festival is the newly set up Iranian Film Festival, which will be held from Wednesday 11th January to Sunday 15th January in Světozor Cinema. The festival presents films that Praguers have not had a chance to see either on TV or in the cinema and which have received awards at such festivals as Berlinale, Venice Film Festival, Moscow Film Festival and the festival in Cannes.