SPORTFILM LIBEREC 2022
4. – 8.10.
25th SPORTS FILM FESTIVAL
SPORTFILM LIBEREC 2022
Sportfilm Liberec is dedicated to films about sports and is located in a magic city of LIberec in northern Czech Republic. It is the 25th time the City of Liberec will host to the international sports film festival this year and it will be held at an iconic cinema Varšava and at Technical university. During whole jubilee year Sportfilm organize exhibiotions, film premieres, conferences, sport events, music festival and gala awards ceremony. In 2019, Czech Television co-production film The Golden Sting was awarded a prestigious prize Guirlande d’Honneur and in 2021, film Mr. Kriss was awarded Mention d´Honneur by the jury of Milan Final. The award is known as Oscar for sports films. The guarantor of this festival series is the Federation Internationale Cinema Television Sportifs (FICTS) joining 130 countries under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee.
Festival programme
Cinema Varšava Liberec, Technical university of Liberec
| 24.3. | Premiere of film Last race |
| 3.5.–26.6. | Exhibition Vera Caslavska |
| 1.6.–1.9. | Film submission www.filmfreeway.com |
| 14.–15.9. | Jury meeting |
| 26.9.–9.10. | Olympic exhibition Beijing 2022 |
| 2.10. | Festival running through the shelter |
| 5.10. | Gala awards ceremony, conference Mental Health and TUL student festival |
| 6.10. | Sportfilm Golf Cup |
| 4.–8.10. | Film projections |
| 9.–13.11. | Final FICTS Festival in Milan |
Jury
doc. PhDr. František Kolář, CSc.
Jury president
Sports historian, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University
Member of ISOH – International Society of Olympic Historians
Zdeněk Škoda
Vice-chairman of the Czech Olympic Academy
Coordinator of the Olympic Heritage Commission of the European Olympic Academies
Jaroslav Černý
Chairman of the Executive Committee of Czech Film and Television Union (FITES)
Jakub Bažant
Sports journalist, columnist and commentator, Czech Television
Member of FICTS commission in Milan
Radim Špaček
Film director, Czech Lion winner
Martin Koukal
Cross country skier and trainer, bronze medaillist at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, World Champion at the Val di Fiemme 2003
Lucie Pešánová Hrstková
Alpine skier and trainer, Czech Sport TV commentator
doc. PaedDr. Aleš Suchomel, Ph.D.
Head of Department of physical education and sport Technical University of Liberec
History
1997 Pavel Landa, Jiří Kössl and Jiří Kratochvíl initiate Sportfilm in Liberec
1998 1st year of the festival in the hall of Dukla Liberec under the auspices of Czech Olympic Academy
1999 Vladimír Boháč (LB-STO) enters the festival organization as its vice president
2002 Sportfilm integrated into international festival World Ficts Challange, inception of Jiří Kössl award
2019 triumph of Czech Television – film Zlatý podraz, The Golden Betrayal, was awarded Guirlande d’Honneur prize by the international jury of Milan Final. The award is known as Oscar for sports films.
2020 Sportfilm restart, new management, online platform added, film submission at www.filmfreeway.com
2021 success of Czech TV – film Mr. Kriss by director Adolf Zika was awarded Mention d´Honneur in documentary section in Milan Final
Venues: Naive Theatre, Dr. E. Beneš Square, Shopping Centre Nisa, Cinema Lípa, Babylon, Regional Research Library, Soukenné Square, Technical University, Shopping Centre Forum, Cinema Varšava
Jury: representatives of Czech Film and Television Union (FITES), Czech Television, Czech Olympic
Committee, Czech Union of Sport, Dukla, Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts, Liberec Region, City of Liberec, and of course filmmakers and sports personalities
Organizing Committee
Festival president
Leon Jakimič, MBA
Festival vice president
Ing. Vladimír BOHÁČ
Jury president
PhDr. František KOLÁŘ
Festival director
Mgr. Renata Balašová
Programme director
Mgr. Kryštof Šafer
Festival production
Pavel MICHAL
Ing. Pavel HŮZA
Representative of Czech Television – member of international media commission FICTS
PhDr. Jakub BAŽANT
Hospitality manager
Nikola Buriánková