Prague - The 14th year of the travelling film feast called Projekt 100 starts on January 10 offering the best new independent films and film classics in one hundred art movie theaters across the whole Czech Republic.
Movie fans will have a chance to see the best films the independent scene has to offer in the next few months.
However, this time they won´t see Jiří Králík, the founder of Projekt 100 and the popular annual Summer Film School in Moravian city of Uherské Hradiště, as he had to leave his office at the end of the year.
"I took part at the selection process for Projekt 100 but there were some changes made that I do not approve of," says Jiří Králík claiming the new project management did not do well with the production this year.
The mission of the Projekt 100 is to support the art movie theaters, introduce films of minor interests to multiplexes and last but not least, please most passionate film fans.
What´s on?
On Thursday, the new Iraqi - Iranian film Turtles Can Fly opens the festival in Prague cinema Aero. It is the first movie made after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime telling a story of children from refugee camps that make their living by searching for land mines.
Another film that the movie-goers can feast on in the coming weeks is The New World, a Terrence Malick-scripted drama about the English explorer John Smith, Indian princess Pocahontas and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
Some of the film addicts will surely remember a Swedish director Roy Andersson from the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary. This time they will have a chance to see his latest film about the desire to love and be loved, self-confidence and anxiety called You, the Living (2007).
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- The Projekt 100 will take place till May 2008.
- You can find the Project 100´s program here.
- All the films will be screened in their original language with Czech subtitles only.
Besides new works, Projekt 100 brings old classics back on the silver screen. One of the evergreen delights on the program are two films by Louis Bunuel - Oscar-crowned The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and a surreal sequence An Andalusian Dog (1929), Michelangelo Antonioni's portrait of 1960s America Zabriskie point (1970) or a surreal science fiction horror The Holy Mountain (1973) by a Mexican director Alejandro Jodorowsky.
No Czech films to be screened
No Czech film made it to the final selection, only Dušan Hanák's Slovak documentary The Images of an Old World (1972), a tibute to old people, will be shown in the participating movie theaters.
The bonus appetizer for all film lovers was introduced on Tuesday evening at the Prague club Roxy, which presented audio-visual sets of music, videoclips and film classics of video jockeys.
"VJs thus have the chance to take the old classics, transform them and present them to the audience in a new, shorter form with repeating parts and new music background," explained Jiří Šebesta from the participating movie theater Aero.
