Prague Independent Film Festival


Prague Independent Film Festival is an international film festival held annually in August in Prague, the capital of Czech Republic. The festival focuses on independent cinema.

History

2016

Prague Independent Film Festival was held for the first time on 15–18 August 2016 in the cinemas Kino Evald, :cs:Kino Atlas|Kino Atlas and Kino Lucerna. The festival program consisted of 33 films.
Opening film of the festival was Rocco has Your Name by :it: Angelo Orlando|Angelo Orlando. Angelo Orlando won the Best Screenplay award and the leading actor :it: Michele Venitucci|Michele Venitucci received the Best Actor award.
Grand Prix of the festival – The Golden Eagle – was awarded to the Bulgarian drama film Sinking of Sozopol by :bg: Костадин Бонев|Kostadin Bonev.
Shamim Sarif received the Best Feature Film award for her espionage drama Despite the Falling Snow based on the best selling eponymous novel written by herself. Rebecca Ferguson was awarded Best Actress and Anthony Head received the Best Supporting Actor award.
Best Animated Film was awarded to from the Russian animation company Wizart Animation. The film was written and directed by Aleksey Tsitsilin and produced by Timur Bekmambetov.
Best Short Film was awarded to the short film Cora made by Kevin Maxwell, a student of Santa Monica College who was supervised by Salvador Carrasco.

2017

The opening film of the festival was Collector by Alexei Krasovsky. Alexei Krasovsky received the Best Director, Gustav Meyrink Prize and Konstantin Khabensky received the Best Actor award.
The film Maya Dardel, written and directed by Magdalena Zyzak and Zachary Cotler received the Best Screenplay award and Lena Olin received the Best Actress award.
Train Driver's Diary directed by :sr: Милош Радовић|Milos Radovic received the Grand Prix, Best Feature Film and Lazar Ristovski received the Best Actor prize.

Gallery

Winners

2019

Grand Prix
Gustav Meyrink Prize
Best Feature Film
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Best Actor
Best Short Film
Best Music Video
Best Student Film
Best Art Direction
Best Documentary
Best Cinematography
Best Animated Film
Best Experimental Film
Grand Prix
Honorary Award
Best Feature Film
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Best Actor
Best Short Film
Best Music Video
Best Art Direction
Best Documentary
Best Cinematography
Best Animated Film
Best Experimental Film
Grand Prix
Best Feature Film
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Short Film
Best Experimental Film
Best Art Direction
Best Music Video
Best Student Film
Gustav Meyrink Prize
Grand Prix
Best Feature Film
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Short Film
Best Experimental Film
Best Animated Film
Best Comedy Film
Best Horror Film
Best Art Direction
Best Special Effects
Best Music Score
Best Music Video