Filmasia.cz Website Review

The fourte*nth year of Filmasia presents a brand new programming concept. After the sections focusing on the overview of national cinematographies, author's retrospectives, or genre blocks, it comes with an illusion in the form of a single thematic frame that spans the entire program. The Fourte*nth Direction is the subject of the FILM AND BOOK, to which all of this year's projections are related. Here are six significant literary adaptations, three Korean and three Chinese co-productions. There are spectacular pictures of famous artists, intensive jewels of young authors and one true film event. There are names like Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee or Korean superstar Ha Jung-woo. Young and Pregnant Directors are nominated by Lim Woo-seong and their authority will be celebrated by perhaps the most discerning As*an maker this year - Lee Chang-dong. This year's films recreate creatively the stories of writers who know readers all over the world. For China, Jiang writers Eileen Chang and the world's most renowned Chinese authors Su Tong and Yu Hua. Yu's Unique dimension of this year's festival adds not only the theme but also the complexity with which it is covered. Spectators will not only get film projections but also discussions with professionals who have close to adapted literature. The main attraction is the presence of translators of the literary motifs of individual films, Tomáš Jurkovič, court translator Haruki Murakami, Petra Ben Ari or Zuzana Li, who contributed to the translation of a significant part of the books on whose adaptations this year's program is based. An important aspect of this year's edition is also the availability of original artworks (with the only exception of each in Czech translation) and thanks to Filmasia, viewers will be able to get these masterpieces and examine the relationship between the film and the book properly.