Febiofest film festival gets underway

The 29th edition of the Prague film festival Febiofest gets underway on Thursday evening with the screening of the comedy The Duke by the late British director Roger Michell.

This year’s Kristián awards for contribution to cinema will go to the internationally acclaimed Czech actor Karel Roden and Ukrainian director Oleh Sentsov, who spent five years in a Russian jail for protesting against the country’s seizure of Crimea, and now he is fighting for his country on the frontline.

The festival will run at several venues in Prague until May 4, presenting more than 90 contemporary films from all over the world, before moving on to other towns and cities in the Czech Republic.