16/03/2015 - Febiofest returns to Prague for its 22nd edition

Febiofest - International Film Festival Prague returns to the Czech Republic for its 22nd edition, which will run from the 19th  to the 22nd of April 2015. The festival will offer 159 films from 56 countries in 562 screenings in Prague and the Regional Echoes. Ticket sales started on March 11th.
 
Opening the festival, will be Alan Rickman's film A Little Chaos and Jean-Jacques Annaud's Wolf Totem. Annaud will also be accepting the Kristian Award for Contribution to World Cinema along with legendary screen icon Kim Novak. The two will be among the around 50 guests welcomed by Febiofest this year - 44 of them coming from outside of Prague. One of them will be director John Madden, here to present The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, starring Judi Dench and Richard Gere.
 
The festival has started a long-term cooperation with the Czech Mint, whose aim it is to honour distinguish Czech cinema personalities each year by issuing gold and silver commemorative medals. This year's medals will be stamped in honor of Czech actor Karel Fiala's 90th birthday - on one side will be his current likeness and other other side it will be him in his most famour role as Lemonade Joe, the acid western comedy film directed by Oldřich Lipský.
 
Another centre piece of this year's Febiofest will be the presentation of four films produced by legendary independent producer Mike Downey, who will also be a guest of the festival, and they include Peter Greenaway's Goltzius and the Pelican Company and Mohsen Makhmalbaf's The President. Downey's presence at the festival is also significant as an envoy of the European Film Academy, which supports the imprisoned Ukranian director Oleg Sentsov. Febiofest will join the cause with their own protest event titled Freedom for Sentsov.