The winner of the 15th edition of the Ostrava Kamera Oko International Film Festival is now revealed. The main prize was awarded to the Canadian film by cinematographer Vincent Biron Mademoiselle Kenopsia. The jury awarded a Special Prize to cinematographer Victoria Pereda for her film Human Surge 3. The film Trip by cinematographer Jan Vališ won the Short Film Competition, and the jury gave a Special Mention to the film Impulsum by cinematographer Filip Hájek. The festival took place from 15th to 19th November in Ostrava, and almost 2000 spectators attended its programme.

Camera in animation, screenings with live orchestra, new films from Cannes, debuts of young filmmakers, graphic design in the film industry, and women behind the camera – Ostrava Kamera Oko (OKO) announces the first topics, films and guests of this year’s programme. The fifteenth edition of the only domestic festival with a focus on the camera starts on 15 November 2023 and runs for five days. It takes place at the Plato Ostrava Gallery, Minikino, the Etáž cinema in Dolní Vítkovice, and other venues in Ostrava.

The 14th edition of the Ostrava Kamera Oko (OKO) International Film Festival, subtitled Sous les pavés, la plage!, starts on 28th September and runs until 2nd October 2022. It will offer more than thirty short and feature films over five days.

“Use minimum means for maximum effect!”

Jana Hojdová is a cinematographer, director, and producer. This year she made her feature film debut with the confident and visually refined title Mirrors in the Dark (2021, dir. Šimon Holý). She is currently working on a documentary about the cinematography legend Robert Richardson, a long-time collaborator of Quentin Tarantino. At the last edition of OKO she acted as one of the main jurors and at the same time presented her masterclass Knowing Hollywood.

The screening of Annexions, which will take place on Saturday, 18 November, in the new music hall of Ostrava University in the City Campus at Černá louka, will be accompanied by a thirty-piece orchestra conducted by French conductor Jacque Mercier. Czech students (from Ostrava’s Wichterle Grammar School) and students from France and Germany participated in the film together with a professional Czech French staff under the Erasmus+ programme.

The Ostrava Kamera Oko International Film Festival will take place for the fifteenth time this year, this time in a new date from November 15th to 19th. It will offer traditional curatorial selections, short and feature competition films, as well as an intense audiovisual program. This year, we are going to join forces with the Women Cinematographers Prague initiative. Now, OKO is unveiling the visual design of the 15th edition and preparing the sale of accreditations, which will be available in the GoOut network from June 1st.

„The Ostrava Kamera Oko Festival is a truly unique. For me, it was the reason why I came back to Ostrava.“

Ostrava native, graduate of Theory and History of Dramatic Arts at Palacký University in Olomouc. She has been working at Ostrava Kamera Oko since 2015 and has been the festival’s director since 2017. She has been gaining her experience for more than ten years working at selected film festivals in the Czech Republic. Since 2013, she has coordinated international rights and film copies at the Summer Film School in Uherské Hradiště, and the Czech programme at the Jihlava IDFF. She has also worked at Academia Film Olomouc and the Animation Film Showcase in Olomouc, at UKUH and at the IFF Trenčianske Teplice. In addition to film, she is also a professional photographer and interior designer.

The 15th edition of the Ostrava Kamera Oko (OKO) International Film Festival, the only in the Czech Republic focused on the presentation of cinematography, will take place from 15-19 November 2023 in Ostrava.

The fourteenth edition of the International Film Festival Ostrava Kamera Oko (OKO), with a theme Sous les pavés, la plage! screened more than thirty short and feature films, several thematic screenings, and held masterclasses and an audiovisual night.

The fourteenth edition of the Czech film festival Ostrava Kamera Oko (OKO) with this year’s theme “Sous les pavés, la plage!” will offer an audiovisual produce from Wednesday 28 September to Sunday 2 October 2022. The films will be screened in the original version with English subtitles.