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The film Franz by Polish director Agnieszka Holland won the most awards at the Czech Lion Awards, taking four prizes from 15 nominations. The film about writer Franz Kafka won awards for actor Idan Weiss in the leading role, as well as for set design, costumes and make-up.

The award for best feature film went to Karavan by director Zuzana Kirchnerová. The film Sbormistr by Ondřej Provazník won three awards.

Three prizes also went to the documentary Raději zešílet v divočině and the TV miniseries Studna by Terezie Kopáčová, which was named best series. Actors Johana Matoušková and David Švehlík won the top acting awards for their roles in the series.

Firefighters in the Olomouc Region recorded about fifty callouts today due to strong winds, for example to remove trees that fell onto roads or power lines. They also secured several roofs damaged by the wind, including in Dlouhá Loučka in the Olomouc area and Držovice in the Prostějov area. The highest number of interventions has been reported in the Olomouc area, firefighters’ spokeswoman Lucie Balážová told CTK.

Firefighters are also dealing with several grass fires today that spread quickly due to the strong wind. Grass is burning, for example, in Uhelná in the Jeseník area and Šubířov in the Prostějov area.

“We are also extinguishing stored wood in Lobodice. We remind the public that burning grass and burning biological waste is prohibited. In strong winds and dry conditions there is also a risk that fires can spread quickly to surrounding areas,” Balážová added.

The war in Iran will be reflected in the Czech economy through an additional increase in inflation of between 0.2 and 1.9 percentage points. As a result, year-on-year inflation in 2026 will likely range between 1.8 and 3.5 percent. The expected loss of economic performance linked to rising oil prices will slow economic growth by 0.1 to 0.7 percentage points. This follows from an analysis provided to CTK by the company XTB.

The expected loss of economic output corresponds to a GDP loss of between 8.7 billion and 60 billion crowns. Despite this, economic growth is still expected to remain relatively strong, between 2.2 and 2.8 percent.

“Estimates suggest that inflation will respond to the war in Iran and rising commodity prices much faster than economic growth. It is also clear that a short-term shock in the form of higher oil prices will not be a catastrophe for the Czech economy,” XTB analyst Pavel Peterka told CTK.

Construction of a school and kindergarten costing 150 million crowns in the Brno district of Židenice will begin in the coming weeks. In previous months the local authority had the original house demolished and the site cleared where the new building will stand. The contractor has two years to complete the project and, if nothing complicates the process, the school could open in the 2027/2028 school year, deputy mayor Štěpán Juránek (KDU-ČSL) told CTK.

The new building in Šámalova Street will replace an old courtyard house. The ground floor will house three kindergarten classes for 75 children, while the upper floor will include three, possibly four, classes for primary school pupils. The facility will serve pupils from the primary school in Kuldova Street, whose historic building cannot be expanded. The total capacity will be about 150 children.