SPORTFILM LIBEREC 2023
12. – 15.10.
26th SPORTS FILM FESTIVAL
SPORTFILM LIBEREC 2023
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