SPORTFILM LIBEREC 2023
12. – 15.10.

26th SPORTS FILM FESTIVAL

Sportfilm Liberec is dedicated to films about sports and is located in a magic city of LIberec in northern Czech Republic. It is the 26th 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, Technical university and other venues. During whole year Sportfilm organize exhibiotions, film premieres, conferences, sport events, discussions 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. Year 2022 brought triumph of Czech films. Zatopek, Last race and Jan Koller were awarded. 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

January-February Sportfilm Senior Kino: Last Race, Jan Koller, The Golden Sting
March-May Exhibition Olympic Beijing 2022, Rezidence RoSa
26.5. Sportfilm Kids: discussion about films and screenplays from books, director Tomáš Hodan (film Las Race), Library Liberec
16.6. Sportfilm Golf Cup, Karlštejn
May-July Film submission at  www.filmfreeway.com
September Sportlive fair trade
Jury meeting CZ and press conference
Online jury meeting EU
29.9.-26.11. Exhibition of sport medals and glass trophies, Little exhibition room
29.9. Nature Run – partners sport event
1.-14.10. The Zatopeks, open air photo exhibitions
12.-15.10. SCREENING OF SELECTED FILMS
12. – 19.10. exhibition SPORTFILM AND BOCHETTE: OLYMPIC
IDEAS, Galerie Desítky
13.10. Conference Mental health of sportswomen, Library Liberec
14.10. premiere of film about Martin Škrtel, Clarion Grandhotel Zlatý Lev
14.10. GALA EVENING CZ/EU, Czech and European Finals
SPORTFILM FICTS FESTIVAL, EUROPEAN FICTS FINALS
Gala evening with an award ceremony and afterparty, Technical university, Aula G      
15.10. Sportfilm Golf Cup, Ypsilonka Liberec
15.10. Festival run in a shelter
23.-6.11. Online film festival at www.sportfilm.cz
7.-11.11. WORLD FICTS CHALLENGE, World finals in Milan (Italy)
1.-3.12 Festival Echoes in Prague, Cinema Mat

Jury

Zdeněk Škoda
Jury president, Czech olympic committee

Jakub Bažant
Jakub Bažant, Czech TV, member of FICTS

Jaroslav Černý
Czech film and TV federation – FITES

Tomáš Hodan
director, screenwriter

Adolf Zika
director, photographer

Jana Počtová
director

Petr Horký
director, traveler

Markéta Ekrt Válková
director

Miriam Ryndová
dramaturge, festival strategies consultant

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.
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
2022  Triumph of Czech production: Mention d´Honneur for film Last Race and Zatopek
: Critics prize for film Jan Koller
: Sport personality prize for fotballer Jan Koller

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

Partners

Organizing Committee

Festival president
Leon Jakimič, MBA

Festival vice president
Ing. Vladimír Boháč

President FICTS CZ
PhDr. Jakub Bažant

Festival director
Mgr. Renata Balašová

Programme
Adolf Zika
Mgr. Dušan Jurčík
Mgr. Kryštof Šafer

PR
Ing. Šárka Razýmová
Ing. Radka Bittnerová

Production and hospitality
Karolína Kutnarová
Martin Spěšný
Mgr. Zuzana Veselá

Jury president
Bc. Zdeněk Škoda