47th annual Uherské Hradiště film school fest gets underway

The 47th annual week-long Summer Film School (LFŠ) and Festival in Uherské Hradiště gets underway on Friday. It opens with Martin Šulík’s ‘Man with Rabbit Ears’ and closes with Peter Bebjak’s ‘The Auschwitz Report’, this year’s Slovak Oscar candidate.

Guests include Czech actor, humourist and screenwriter Zdeněk Svěrák, Slovak actor Martin Huba, Serbian director Goran Marković, Polish editor Jaroslaw Kamiński and Chilean director and photographer Sergio Castro San Martín.

Special sidebars include Made in Poland, featuring 25 films from that country to be distributed in Czech film clubs, and Eastern Promises, focussing on Yakutian cinema, a phenomenon in contemporary Russian film, along with seasoned masters such as Andrei Konchalovsky and Victor Kossakovsky.