Documentarist Petr Záruba wins Pavel Koutecký Award

This year’s Pavel Koutecký Award for Best Czech Documentary has gone to Petr Záruba for his film Traces of a Landscape about the Czech painter, filmmaker and photographer Jan Jedlička, who emigrated in 1968 and settled in the desolate landscape of the Tuscan lowlands of Maremma. The Award for Best Short Documentary went to Czechia Deforested by Mikoláš Arsenjevic.

The award giving ceremony took place within the third edition of ELBE DOCK festival in Ústí nad Labem on Saturday night. Pavel Koutecký was a filmmaker who died in 2006 at the age of 50, halfway through filming Citizen Havel, a portrait of the late president that subsequently became a great success.