The Pavel Koutecký Award was founded in 2007 as an award given to the most original Czech documentary film of the year. The award formed the foundations of the International Documentary Film Festival ELBE DOCK that was established in 2018 in Ústí nad Labem and Dresden (where the Pavel Koutecký Award continues to be awarded). Over the years, it has gradually begun to focus on Central European short films across all genres. In addition to short films, the festival also showcases the most interesting feature debuts and presents a rich accompanying programme, including various industry events for professionals and students.
2023
17th annual Pavel Koutecký Award & 6th ELBE DOCK IFF
Ústí nad Labem | Dresden | 6.–10. 9. 2023
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH FIRST OR SECOND FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Pongo Calling (dir. Tomáš Kratochvíl, Czech Republic, 2022, 78 min)
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH FIRST OR SECOND SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Serpentis (dir. Sarah Lomenová, Czech Republic, 2022, 18 min)
SPECIAL MENTION OF THE PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH FIRST OR SECOND SHORT DOCUMENTARY
The Landscape of Ashes (dir. Eliška Plechatová, Czech Republic, 2022, 5 min)
ELBE DOCK AWARD
FOR THE BEST CENTRAL EUROPEAN SHORT DEBUT
Uncle Vakho's Dream (dir. Joanna Rój, Poland/Georgia, 2022, 22 min)
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Nominated Czech first or second feature documentaries
8th Day of the War (dir. Oksana Moiseniuk, Czech Republic, 2022, 93 min)
a-B-C-D-e-F-G-H-i-JONESTOWN (dir. Jan Bušta, Czech Republic, 2022, 77 min)
Pongo Calling (dir. Tomáš Kratochvíl, Czech Republic/Slovakia/UK, 2022, 78 min)
PSH Neverending Story (dir. Štěpán Vodrážka, Czech Republic, 2022, 70 min)
The Visitors (dir. Veronika Lišková, Czech Republic/Norway/Slovakia, 2022, 83 min)
Nominated Czech first or second short documentaries
Foxy Girls (dir. Maja Penčič, Czech Republic, 2021, 13 min)
I Want to Find Peace in Every Situation (dir. Alan Sýs, Czech Republic, 2022, 15 min)
The Landscape of Ashes (dir. Eliška Plechatová, Czech Republic, 2022, 5 min)
Vox populi (dir. Josef Švejda, Czech Republic, 2022, 20 min)
Serpentis (dir. Sarah Lomenová, Czech Republic, 2022, 18 min)
Nominated Central European short debuts
27 (dir. Flóra Anna Buda, Hungary/France, 2023, 12 min)
A Dead Marriage (dir. Michał Toczek, Poland, 2022, 18 min)
A Goat's Spell (dir. Gerhard Funk, Germany, 2022, 9 min)
Amok (dir. Balázs Turai, Hungary, 2022, 14 min)
At Spiral's End (dir. Eliška Kerbachová, Czech Republic, 2022, 5 min)
Backflip (dir. Nikita Diakur, Germany/France, 2022, 12 min)
Brandon Roi (dir. Romain Jaccoud, Switzerland, 2022, 15 min)
Electra (dir. Daria Kashcheeva, Czech Republic/France, 2023, 27 min)
Flowers from Another Garden (dir. Jorge Cadena, Switzerland/Colombia, 2022, 15 min)
Handjobs (dir. Andri Hinnen, Daniel Schneider, Switzerland, 2022, 5 min)
Hardly Working (dir. Total Refusal, Austria, 2022, 20 min)
Insight (dir. Emma Braun, Austria, 2022, 20 min)
Juice (dir. Mona Keil, Germany, 2022, 5 min)
Recordings of a Weather Camera (dir. Bernhard Wenger, Austria/Germany, 2023, 18 min)
Rites (dir. Damián Vondrášek, Czech Republic, 2022, 16 min)
Staging Death (dir. Jan Soldat, Austria/Germany, 2022, 8 min)
Strigov (dir. Barbora Berezňáková, Slovakia, 2022, 8 min)
Text Me When You Get Home xx (dir. Niklas Bauer, Germany, 2022, 11 min)
The Devil (dir. Jan Bujnowski, Poland, 2022, 19 min)
The Newt Congress (dir. Matthias Sahli, Immanuel Esser, Switzerland, 2022, 15 min)
The Other End of the Street (dir. Kálmán Nagy, Austria/Hungary, 2022, 22 min)
Uncle Vakho's Dream (dir. Joanna Rój, Poland, 2022, 22 min)
waking up in silence (dir. Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko, Germany/Ukraine, 2022, 18 min)
We Had a Thing (dir. Franz Quitt, Austria, 2022, 28 min)
When I'll Be… (dir. Tymoteusz Kałużewski, Poland, 2022, 21 min)
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Pavel Koutecký Award Jury
Barbora Námerová, Benjamin Tuček, Klára Vlasáková
ELBE DOCK Award Jury
Karolína Davidová, Monica Koshka-Stein, Johanna Süß, Kateřina Šafaříková
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2022
16th annual Pavel Koutecký Award & 5th ELBE DOCK IFF
Prague | Ústí nad Labem | Dresden | May 12–21, 2022
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH FIRST OR SECOND FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Intensive Life Unit (dir. Adéla Komrzý, Czech Republic, 2021, 76 min)
SPECIAL MENTION
FOR THE CZECH FIRST OR SECOND FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
How I Became a Partisan (dir. Vera Lacková, Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2021, 90 min)
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH FIRST OR SECOND SHORT DOCUMENTARY
JANG (dir. Josef Švejda, Czech Republic, 2022, 28 min)
ELBE DOCK AWARD
FOR THE BEST CENTRAL EUROPEAN SHORT DEBUT
after a room (dir. Naomi Pacifique/Netherlands/United Kingdom/Switzerland, 2021, 21 min)
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Selected Czech first or second feature documentaries
Brotherhood (dir. Francesco Montagner, Czech Republic/Italy/France, 2021, 97 min)
Housing Against Everyone (dir. Tomáš Hlaváček, Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2021, 93 min)
How I Became a Partisan (dir. Vera Lacková, Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2021, 90 min)
Intensive Life Unit (dir. Adéla Komrzý, Czech Republic, 2021, 76 min)
Preparations for Film T (dir. Milan Klepikov, Czech Republic, 2021, 93 min)
Selected Czech first or second short documentaries
Love, Dad (dir. Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2021, 13 min)
JANG (dir. Josef Švejda, Czech Republic, 2022, 28 min)
The Land of the Raven from the Ark (dir. Květa Chaloupková, Czech Republic, 2021, 21 min)
Amplified Silence (dir. Marek Mrkvička, Czech Republic, 2021, 23 min)
Testing Sirens (dir. Hana Slaninová, Czech Republic, 2021, 11 min)
Selected Central Europan short debuts
Can You Still Feel the Butterflies? (dir. Radek Brousil, Kryštof Hlůže, Czech Republic, 2021, 13 min)
Wishaway (dir. Klara von Veegh, Austria, 2021, 21 min)
Mother's Day (dir. Patryk Kaflowski, Poland, 2021, 11 min)
Night (dir. Ahmad Saleh, Germany/Palestina/Qatar, 2021, 16 min)
Rheum (dir. Kateřina Hroníková, Slovakia, 2021, 28 min)
after a room (dir. Naomi Pacifique, Netherlands/United Kingdom/Switzerland, 2021, 21 min)
The Glory of Terrible Eliz (dir. Eliška Kováříková, Adam Struhala, Czech Republic, 2021, 28 min)
Handbook (dir. Pavel Mozhar, Germany/Belarus, 2021, 26 min)
Rondo (dir. Katharina Rivilis, Germany, 2022, 29 min)
Sisters (dir. Andrea Szelesová, Czech Republic, 2021, 11 min)
Sentinels (dir. Patrick Muroni, Switzerland, 2021, 15 min)
Once Upon a Time in Israel (dir. Weronika Szyma, Poland, 2021, 11 min)
In the Inner Circle (dir. Julia Reiter, Austria, 2021, 29 min)
In Shallow Water (dir. Marek Moučka, Slovakia, 2021, 11 min)
Thing (dir. Malte Stein, Germany, 2021, 5 min)
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Pavel Koutecký Award Jury
Alexandra Bryksa, Marharyta Golobrodska, Alexandr Kozlov, Olga Krykun
ELBE DOCK Award Jury
Malvína Balvínová, Julie Žáčková, Anne Gaschütz, Steffi Rostoski
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2021
15th annual Pavel Koutecký Award & 4th ELBE DOCK IFF
Ústí nad Labem | Dresden | September 28 – October 4, 2021
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH FIRST OR SECOND FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Traces of a Landscape (dir. Petr Záruba, Czech Republic, Italy, 2020, 67 min)
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH FIRST OR SECOND SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Czechia Deforested (dir. Mikoláš Arsenjev, Czech Republic, 2020, 15 min)
SPECIAL MENTION OF THE PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH FIRST OR SECOND SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Railing (dir. Barbora Sommersová, Czech Republic, 2020, 6 min)
ELBE DOCK AWARD
FOR THE BEST CENTRAL EUROPEAN FEATURE DEBUT
Purple Sea (dir. Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed, Germany, 2020, 67 min)
ELBE DOCK AWARD
FOR THE BEST CENTRAL EUROPEAN SHORT DEBUT
Vyraj (dir. Agnieszka Nowosielska, Poland, 2020, 20 min)
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Selected Czech first or second feature documentaries
Athanor – The Alchemical Furnace (dir. Adam Oľha, Jan Daňhel, Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2020, 117 min)
White on White (dir. Viera Čákanyová, Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2020, 74 min)
Traces of a Landscape (dir. Petr Záruba, Czech Republic/Italy, 2020, 67 min)
A New Shift (dir., Jindřich Andrš, Czech Republic, 2020, 91 min)
Wolves at the Borders (dir. Martin Páv, Czech Republic, 2020, 78 min)
Selected Czech first or second short documentaries
Czechia Deforested (dir. Mikoláš Arsenjev, Czech Republic, 2020, 15 min)
Mrs. Happy (dir. Nikola Klinger, Czech Republic, 2020, 16 min)
Pripyat Piano (dir. Eliška Cílková, Czech Republic, 2020, 19 min)
Inside (dir. Viktorie Štěpánová, Czech Republic, 2020, 6 min)
Railing (dir. Barbora Sommersová, Czech Republic, 2020, 6 min)
Selected Central Europan feature debuts
DAU. Natasha (dir. Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Jekaterina Oertel, Germany/Russia/Ukraine/UK, 2020, 145 min)
As Far as I Know (dir. Nándor Lőrincz, Bálint Nagy, Hungary/Romania, 2020, 120 min)
The Last Image (dir. Judith Zdesar, Austria, 2020, 70 min)
Purple Sea (dir. Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed, Germany, 2020, 67 min)
Robin's Hood (dir. Jasmin Baumgartner, Austria, 2020, 93 min)
Taming the Garden (dir. Salomé Jashi, Switzerland/Georgia/Germany, 2021, 91 min)
Selected Central Europan short debuts
Agape (dir. Márk Beleznai, Hungary, 2020, 16 min)
Anatomy of a Czech Afternoon (dir. Adam Martinec, Czech Republic, 2020, 22 min)
Spirits and Rocks: An Azorean Myth (dir. Aylin Gökmen, Switzerland/Portugal, 2020, 14 min)
Vyraj (dir. Agnieszka Nowosielska, Poland, 2020, 20 min)
How to Disappear – Deserting Battlefield (dir. Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf, Austria, 2020, 21 min)
We Have One Heart (dir. Katarzyna Warzecha, Poland, 2020, 12 min)
A Little Bit of Paradise (dir. Andrzej Cichocki, Poland, 2020, 19 min)
AN OCEAN (dir. Paul Scheufler, Germany, 2020, 19 min)
Peel (dir. Silvain Monney, Samuel Patthey, Switzerland, 2020, 15 min)
The Game (dir. Roman Hodel, Switzerland, 2020, 17 min)
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Pavel Koutecký Award Jury
Veronika Bendová, Ivan Arsenjev, Hana Galiová, Lukáš Černoch, Aleš Loziak
ELBE DOCK Award Jury
Maike Mia Höhne, Marion Bouvier, Luise Grudzinski
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2020
14th annual Pavel Koutecký Award & 3rd ELBE DOCK IDFF
Ústí nad Labem | Dresden | September 1–6, 2020
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH FEATURE DOCUMENTARY DEBUT
FREM (dir. Viera Čákanyová, Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2019, 74 min)
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH SHORT DOCUMENTARY DEBUT
S P A C E S (dir. Nora Štrbová, Czech Republic, 2019, 8 min)
ELBE DOCK AWARD
FOR THE BEST CENTRAL EUROPEAN FEATURE DOCUMENTARY DEBUT
Searching Eva (dir. Pia Hellenthal, Germany, 2019, 84 min)
SPECIAL MENTION OF THE ELBE DOCK AWARD JURY
Taste of Hope (dir. Laura Coppens, Switzerland, Germany, 2020, 70 min)
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Selected Czech feature debuts
FREM (dir. Viera Čákanyová, Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2019, 74 min)
Kiruna – A Brand New World / Kiruna – překrásný nový svět (dir. Greta Stocklassa, Czech Republic, 2019, 87 min)
Moravia, O Fair Land III / Morava, krásná zem III (dir. Petr Šprincl, Czech Republic, 2019, 68 min)
SOLO / SÓLO (dir. Artemio Benki,Czech Republic, France, Argentina, Austria, 2019, 84 min)
VIVA VIDEO, VIDEO VIVA (dir. Adéla Komrzý, Czech Republic, 2019, 85 min)
Selected Czech short debuts
Apparatgeist (dir. Marie-Magdalena Kochová, Czech Republic, 2019, 11 min)
Daily Manure/ Hnůj vezdejší (dir. Nikola Krutilová, Czech Republic, 2019, 24 min)
Forget Me Not / Kdo se se mnou zatočí (dir. Adela Křižovenská, Czech Republic, 2019, 7 min)
M E Z E R Y (dir. Nora Štrbová, Czech Republic, 2019, 8 min)
Why Do I Feel like a Boy? / Proč se cítím jako kluk? (dir. Kateřina Turečková, Czech Republic, 2019, 27 min)
Selected Central Europan feature debuts
Safety123 / Sicherheit123 (dir. Florian Kofler, Julia Gutweniger, Austria/Italy, 2019, 72 min)
Silent Days / Hluché dni (dir. Pavol Pekarčík, Slovakia/Czech Republic, 2019, 80 min)
Taste of Hope / Le goût de l’espoir (dir. Laura Coppens, Switzerland/Germany, 2020, 70 min)
ISOLA (dir. Aurelio Buchwalder, Switzerland, 2019, 70 min)
Our Little Poland / Nasza mała Polska (dir. Matěj Bobřík, Poland, 2019, 70 min)
Searching Eva (dir. Pia Hellenthal, Germany, 2019, 84 min)
Lost Home / Stratený domov (dir. Juraj Mravec, Slovakia, 2019, 75 min)
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Pavel Koutecký Award Jury
Michal Hogenauer, Štěpán Hulík, Lenka Lindaurová, Pavel Mrkus
ELBE DOCK Award Jury
Marta Golba, Mária Môťovská, Hana Blaha Šilarová
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2019
13th annual Pavel Koutecký Award & 2nd ELBE DOCK IDFF
Ústí nad Labem | Dresden | May 27 – June 2, 2019
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH FEATURE DOCUMENTARY DEBUT
Empire Builders / Budovatelé říše (dir. Andran Abramjan, Czech Republic, 2018, 72 min)
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH SHORT DOCUMENTARY DEBUT
Me, Flamingo / Já, plameňák (dir. Elvíra Dulskaia, Czech Republic, 2018, 15 min)
SPECIAL MENTION OF THE PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD JURY FOR EDITING
Tonička Janková (editor of Inside Mosul / V Mosulu)
ELBE DOCK AWARD
FOR THE BEST CENTRAL EUROPEAN FEATURE DOCUMENTARY DEBUT
The Last Self-portrait / Posledný autoportrét (dir. Marek Kuboš, Slovakia, 2017/2018, 72 min)
SPECIAL MENTION OF THE ELBE DOCK AWARD JURY FOR PRODUCTION
Maciej Kubicki, Anna Kepinska (producers of Over The Limit)
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Selected Czech feature debuts
Empire Builders / Budovatelé říše (dir. Andran Abramjan, Czech Republic, 2018, 72 min)
Central Bus Station (dir. Tomáš Elšík, Czech Republic, 2018, 75 min)
King Skate (dir. Šimon Šafránek, Czech Republic, 2018, 79 min)
Inside Mosul / V Mosulu (dir. Jana Andert, Czech Republic, 2018, 83 min)
Vienna Calling (dir. Petr Šprincl, Czech Republic, 2018, 66 min)
Selected Czech short debuts
FAMU: The Beginning / FAMU, nový začátek (dir. Jakub Jelínek, Czech Republic, 2018, 21 min)
Me, Flamingo / Já, plameňák (dir. Elvira Dulskaia, Czech Republic, 2018, 15 min)
On the Edge / Na okraji (dir. Barbora Chalupová, Czech Republic, 2018, 14 min)
puddles, I don’t know / nevím, kaluže (dir. Anna Petruželová, Czech Republic, 2018, 10 min)
Apart / Spolu sami (dir. Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Czech Republic, 2018, 10 min)
Selected Central Europan feature debuts
Are You Sleeping, Brother Jakob? / Bruder Jakob, schläfst du noch? (dir. Stefan Bohun, Austria, 2018, 80 min)
Diagnosis / Diagnoza (dir. Ewa Podgórska, Poland, 2018, 78 min)
Home Games / Domashni Igri (dir. Alisa Kovalenko, Ukraine, Poland, 2018, 86 min)
Born in Evin (dir. Maryam Zaree, Germany, Austria, 2019, 95 min)
The Last Self-portrait / Posledný autoportrét (dir. Marek Kuboš, Slovakia, 2017/2018, 72 min)
A Woman Captured Bernadett (dir. Tuza-Ritter, Hungary, Germany, 2017/2018, 89 min)
Over The Limit (dir. Masta Prus, Poland, Germany, Finland, 2017/2018, 74 min)
Closing Time (dir. Nicole Vögele, Germany, Switzerland, 2018, 116 min)
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Pavel Koutecký Award Jury
žena Filmového kritika, Marek Kráľovský, Richard Loskot, Tereza Bonaventurová
ELBE DOCK Award Jury
Petr Horký, Csaba Bollók, Ágnes Horváth-Szabó
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2018
12th annual Pavel Koutecký Award & 1st ELBE DOCK IDFF
Ústí nad Labem | Dresden | May 16–20, 2018
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH FEATURE DOCUMENTARY DEBUT
The Russian Job / Švéd v žigulíku (dir. Petr Horký, Czech Republic, 2017, 64 min)
SPECIAL MENTION
Nothing Like Before / Nic jako dřív (dir. Klára Tasovská, Lukáš Kokeš, Czech Republic, 2017, 92 min)
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH SHORT DOCUMENTARY DEBUT
Úhorná (dir. Matej Šmelko, Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2017, 27 min)
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Selected feature debuts
When the War Comes / Až přijde válka (dir. Jan Gebert, Czech Republic, Croatia, 2018, 76 min
God Forsaken / Bohu žel (dir. Saša Dlouhý, Czech Republic, 2018, 83 min
Nothing Like Before / Nic jako dřív (dir. Klára Tasovská, Lukáš Kokeš, Czech Republic, 2017, 92 min
The Lust for Power / Mečiar (dir. Tereza Nvotová, Slovakia, Czech Republic, 2017, 89 min
The Russian Job / Švéd v žigulíku (dir. Petr Horký, Czech Republic, 2017, 64 min
Selected short debuts
Bo Hai (dir. Dužan Duong, Czech Republic, 2017, 26 min)
Prague: A Foreigners' Perspective / Praha očima cizinců (dir. Daria Kashcheeva, Czech Republic, 2017, 5 min)
Transformations/Vapors/Melanosis / Transformace/Výpary/Melanosis (dir. Michal Kindernay, Czech Republic, 2017, 9 min)
Úhorná (dir. Matej Šmelko, Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2017, 27 min)
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Jury
Ivan Zachariáš, Kazma, Markus Krug, Emma Smetana, Janja Prokić, Daniel Pitek
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2017
11th annual Pavel Koutecký Award
Továrna | Prague | June 6–10, 2017
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM
5 October (dir. Martin Kollár, Slovakia/Czech Republic, 2016, 61 min)
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM
Backstage (dir. Martin Mach, Dominik Truhlář, Czech Republic, 2016, 11 min)
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Selected feature films
5 October (dir. Martin Kollár, Slovakia/Czech Republic, 2016, 61 min)
Arms ready / Do zbraně (dir. Barbora Chalupová, Czech Republic, 2016, 39 min)
FC Roma (dir. Rozálie Kohoutová, Tomáš Bojar, Czech Republic, 2016, 75 min)
H*ART ON (dir. Andrea Culková, Czech Republic, 2016, 73 min)
Selected short films
Backstage (dir. Martin Mach, Dominik Truhlář, Czech Republic, 2016, 11 min)
Kittchen - až budu proměněný (dir. Tomáš Šťastný, Czech Republic, 2016, 18 min)
Traces, Fragments, Roots / Stopy, střepy, kořeny (dir. Květa Přibylová, Czech Republic, 2016, 20 min)
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Jury
Tereza Czesany Dvořáková, Julie Kárová, Daniel Moravec, Janek Rubeš, Kateřina Šedá
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2016
10th annual Pavel Koutecký Award
Archa Theatre | Prague | June 9, 2016
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM
The Dangerous World of Doctor Doleček / Nebezpečný svět Rajka Dolečka (dir. Kristýna Bartošová, Czech Republic, 2015, 72 min)
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM
Kohoutková (dir. Veronika Lišková, Czech Republic, 2015, 7 min)
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Selected feature films
Amerika (dir. Jan Foukal, Czech Republic, 2015, 70 min
Koudelka Shooting Holy Land / Koudelka fotografuje Svatou zemi (dir. Gilad Baram, Germany, Czech Republic, 2015, 72 min)
Mallory (dir. Helena Třeštíková, Czech Republic, 2015, 97 min)
The Dangerous World of Doctor Doleček / Nebezpečný svět Rajka Dolečka (dir. Kristýna Bartošová, Czech Republic, 2015, 72 min)
Under the Sun / V paprscích slunce (dir. Vitaly Mansky, Russia/Czech Republic/Germany/North Korea/Latvia, 2015, 106 min)
Selected short films
What to Do While Trains Pass By / Co dělat, když vlaky projíždí (dir. Karl Friis Forchhammer, Czech Republic/Denmark, 2015, 10 min)
Kohoutková (dir. Veronika Lišková, Czech Republic, 2015, 7 min)
Království banánových krabic (dir. Jan Vondráček, Czech Republic, 2015, 9 min)
The Strip / Strip (dir. Kateřina Turečková, Czech Republic, 2015, 10 min)
Everything will End up in a Pine Box / Všechno skončí v jedné bedně (dir. Alžběta Kovandová, Czech Republic, 2015, 18 min)
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Jury
Barbora Stehlíková, Saša Gedeon, Milan Kruml, Ondřej Moravec, Čestmír Suška, Jana Svobodová
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2015
9th annual Pavel Koutecký Award
Archa Theatre | Prague | June 8, 2015
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH DOCUMENTARY FILM
Lean a Ladder Against Heaven / Opři žebřík o nebe (dir. Jana Ševčíková, Czech Republic, 2014, 100 min)
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Selected films
Pit-Hole / Jáma (dir. Jiří Stejskal, Czech Republic, Estonia, 2010, 23 min)
Jenica & Perla (dir. Rozálie Kohoutová, Czech Republic, France, 2015, 72 min)
Into the Clouds We Gaze / K oblakům vzhlížíme (dir. Martin Dušek, Czech Republic, 2014, 66 min)
Lean a Ladder Against Heaven / Opři žebřík o nebe (dir. Jana Ševčíková, Czech Republic, 2014, 100 min)
Long Live Hunting! / Lovu zdar! (dir. Jaroslav Kratochvíl, Czech Republic, 2014, 66 min)
wave vs. shore / vlna vs. břeh (dir. Martin Štrba, Slovensko, Czech Republic, 2014, 88 min)
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Jury
Radka Denemarková, Ondřej Hrab, Ondřej Kamenický, Štěpánka Korytová, Tono Stano
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2014
8th annual Pavel Koutecký Award
Archa Theatre | Prague | June 10, 2014
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH DOCUMENTARY FILM
DK (dir. Bára Kopecká, Czech Republic, 2013, 73 min)
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Selected films
DK (dir. Bára Kopecká, Czech Republic, 2013, 73 min)
Felvidek: Caught in Between / Felvidék – Horná zem (dir. Vladislava Plančíková, Slovakia/Czech Republic, 2014, 75 min)
Liebe Indigo (dir. Saša Dlouhý, Czech Republic, 2013, 52 min)
The Analogs / Parta Analog (dir. Martin Dušek, Czech Republic, 2013, 70 min)
Pirating pirates / Pirátské sítě (dir. David Čálek, Jakub Zahradníček, Czech Republic, 2014, 88 min)
Show! (dir. Bohdan Bláhovec, Czech Republic, 2013, 65 min)
The Great Night / Velká noc (dir. Petr Hátle, Czech Republic, 2014, 72 min)
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Jury
Drahomíra Vihanová, Vojtěch Rynda, Hana Kulhánková, Jana Svobodová, Pavel Pohlreich
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2013
7th annual Pavel Koutecký Award
Archa Theatre | Prague | June 11, 2013
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH DOCUMENTARY FILM
Two Nil / Dva nula (dir. Pavel Abrahám, Tomáš Bojar, Czech Republic, 2012, 104 min)
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Selected films
Two Nil / Dva nula (dir. Pavel Abrahám, Tomáš Bojar, Czech Republic, 2012, 104 min)
Chudoba cti netratí (dir. Daniela Gébová, Czech Republic, 2012, 53 min)
Fragile Identity / Křehká identita (dir. Zuzana Piussi, Slovakia, Czech Republic, 2012, 70 min)
New Life of a Family Album / Nový život (dir. Adam Oľha, Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2012, 77 min)
On Decency / O slušnosti (dir. Radovan Síbrt, Czech Republic, 2012, 52 min)
The Story of Mr. Love / Otázky pana Lásky (dir. Dagmar Smržová, Czech Republic, 2013, 75 min)
The Darkness Under the Lamp / Pod lampou je tma (dir. Kristýna Bartošová, Czech Republic, 2012, 29 min)
Free Smetana / Svobodu pro Smetanu (dir. Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda, Czech Republic, 2013, 52 min)
Burning / Umanutá (dir. Miroslav Janek, Czech Republic, 2012, 58 min)
Life with Jester / Život s Kašparem (dir. Helena Třeštíková, Czech Republic, 2013, 89 min)
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Jury
Jiří Havelka, Petra Hůlová, Ondřej Hrab, Zuzana Raušová, Milada Šírová
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2012
6th annual Pavel Koutecký Award
Archa Theatre | Prague | June 13, 2012
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH DOCUMENTARY FILM
The Tripoint / Trojmezí (dir. Klára Řezníčková, Czech Republic, 2012, 59 min)
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Selected films
Love in the Grave / Láska v hrobě (dir. David Vondráček, Czech Republic, 2012, 79 min)
My Folc Costume / Mein Kroj (dir. Martin Dušek, Czech Republic, 2011, 26 min)
Into Oblivion / Mrtvá trať (dir. Šimon Špidla, Czech Republic, 2011, 52 min)
Solar Eclipse / Pod sluncem tma (dir. Martin Mareček, Czech Republic, 2011, 81 min)
Roxanne (dir. Veronika Mikalová, Czech Republic, 2011, 22 min)
Private Universe / Soukromý vesmír (dir. Helena Třeštíková, Czech Republic, 2011, 83 min)
Trafacka: Temple of Freedom / Trafačka – chrám svobody (dir. Saša Dlouhý, Roman Vávra, Czech Republic, 2011, 75 min)
The Tripoint / Trojmezí (dir. Klára Řezníčková, Czech Republic, 2012, 59 min)
Věra 68 (dir. Olga Sommerová, Czech Republic, 2012, 90 min)
Race to the Bottom / Závod ke dnu (dir. Vít Janeček, Czech Republic, 2011, 82 min)
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Jury
Jaroslav Rudiš, Michal Hladík, Lenka Lovicarová, Jana Svobodová, Marie a Matěj Svitákovi
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2011
5th annual Pavel Koutecký Award
Archa Theatre | Prague | June 6, 2011
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH DOCUMENTARY FILM
Earthlings, who are you voting for? / Pozemšťané, koho budete volit? (dir. o. s. Inventura documentary workhsop participants and Linda Jablonská, Czech Republic, 2010, 30 min)
SPECIAL MENTION
music group Dva (for the soundtrack of Bear Islands and All for the Good of the World and Nosovice!)
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Selected films
Czech Granada / Česká Granada (dir. Jan Papoušek, Czech Republic, 2010, 50 min)
Filmmaker, Fan, Freak / Filmař, fanoušek, podivín (dir. Kateřina Mikulcová, Czech Republic, 2010, 59 min)
For Semafor (dir. Miroslav Janek, Czech Republic, 2010, 73 min)
Bear Islands / Medvědí ostrovy (dir. Martin Ryšavý, Czech Republic, 2010, 62 min)
Matchmaking Mayor / Nesvatbov (dir. Erika Hníková, Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2010, 72 min)
Earthlings, who are you voting for? / Pozemšťané, koho budete volit? (dir. o. s. Inventura documentary workhsop participants and Linda Jablonská, Czech Republic, 2010, 30 min)
All for the Good of the World and Nosovice! / Vše pro dobro světa a Nošovic (dir. Vít Klusák, Czech Republic, 2010, 82 min)
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Jury
Radim Špaček, Irena Hejdová, Ondřej Hrab, Lenka Lovicarová, Marie Rumlová
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2010
4th annual Pavel Koutecký Award
Archa Theatre | Prague | June 7, 2010
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH DOCUMENTARY FILM
Country of Dreams / Země snů (dir. Martin Ryšavý, Czech Republic, 2009, 57 min)
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Selected films
59/184/84 (r. Lukáš Kokeš, Czech Republic, 2009, 24 min)
Czech Peace / Český mír (r. Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda, Czech Republic, 2010, 89 min)
I Love My Boring Life / Mám ráda nudný život (r. Jan Gogola ml., Czech Republic, 2009, 26 min)
Heaven, Hell / Nebe Peklo (r. David Čálek, Czech Republic, 2009, 82 min)
Phantom of Liberty II / Přízrak svobody II (r. Karel Žalud, Czech Republic, Germany, 2009, 57 min)
All That Glitters / Mlčeti zlato (r. Tomáš Kudrna, Czech Republic/Kyrgyzstan, 2009, 99 min)
My Neighbour Killed Heydrich / Šil jsem u Kubiše (r. Pavel Štingl, Czech Republic, 2010, 57 min)
Country of Dreams / Země snů (dir. Martin Ryšavý, Czech Republic, 2009, 57 min)
Coal in the Soul / Ženy SHR (r. Martin Dušek, Ondřej Provazník, Czech Republic, 2010, 58 min)
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Jury
Miroslav Janek, Jitka Rudolfová, Kateřina Bartošová, Jana Svobodová, Jiří Fidranský
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2009
3rd annual Pavel Koutecký Award
Archa Theatre | Prague | June 8, 2009
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH DOCUMENTARY FILM
The Unwelcome / Nevítaní (dir. Tomáš Škrdlant, Czech Republic, 2009, 95 min)
SPECIAL MENTION
Forgotten Transports to Poland / Zapomenuté transporty do Polska (dir. Lukáš Přibyl, Czech Republic, 2009, 85 min)
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Selected films
Czech RAPublic / Česká RAPublika (dir. Pavel Abrahám, Czech Republic, 2008, 90 min)
Colour Symphonist and Painter of the Cosmos / František Kupka – Symfonik barev a malíř kosmu (dir. Daniela Gébová, Czech Republic, 2008, 32 min)
Gyumri (dir. Jana Ševčíková, Czech Republic, 2008, 68 min)
The Unwelcome / Nevítaní (dir. Tomáš Škrdlant, Czech Republic, 2009, 95 min)
René (dir. Helena Třeštíková, Czech Republic, 2008, 83 min)
Seven Lights / Sedm světel (dir. Olga Sommerová, Czech Republic, 2008, 57 min)
Forgotten Transports to Poland / Zapomenuté transporty do Polska (dir. Lukáš Přibyl, Czech Republic, 2009, 85 min)
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Jury
Ondřej Hrab, Michaela Klečková, Lubor Tůma, Alena Čechová, Petr Zelenka
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2008
2nd annual Pavel Koutecký Award
Archa Theater | Prague | June 10, 2008
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH DOCUMENTARY FILM
The Tadpole, the Rabbit and the Holy Spirit / Pulec, králík a Duch svatý (dir. Filip Remunda, Czech Republic, 2007, 26 min)
Selected films
History of Jaroslav Šabata / Dějiny Jaroslava Šabaty (dir. Vít Janeček, Czech Republic, 2007, 52 min)
Home / Domov (dir. Margareta Hrůza, Czech Republic, 2008, 56 min)
Fish'n'Pills / Hormonální akvárium (dir. Tereza Tara, Czech Republic, 2007, 20 min)
Forgotten Transports / Zapomenuté transporty (dir. Lukáš Přibyl, Czech Republic, 2007/2008, 85 min)
Report from Lodz / Zpráva o Lodži (dir. Pavel Štingl, Czech Republic, 2008, 90 min)
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Jury
Hana Jemelíková, Jana Svobodová, Jiří Peňás, Bohuslav Šír, Adam Oľha
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2007
1st annual Pavel Koutecký Award
Archa Theatre | Prague | June 7, 2007
PAVEL KOUTECKÝ AWARD
FOR THE BEST CZECH DOCUMENTARY FILM
A Low-level Flight / Nízký let (dir. Jan Šikl, Czech Republic, 2006, 52 min)
Selected films
The Caique's Flight Against the Wind / Let čajky proti větru (dir. Jaroslava Panáková, Czech Republic, 2005, 15 min)
Jan Křížek, Sculptures and Bees / Jan Křížek - Sochy a včely (dir. Martin Řezníček, Czech Republic, 2005, 59 min)
Source / Zdroj (dir. Martin Mareček, Czech Republic, 2005, 77 min)
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Jury
Ondřej Hrab, Ondřej Štindl, Hana Jemelíková, Jarmila Poláková, Igor Blaževič, Bohuslav Šír