Prague International Film Awards

GREETINGS AND WELCOME TO PRAGUE INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS 2024
Prague International Film Awards is uniq IMDb qualifying film festival with live screenings in Prague, in Czech Republic. PIFA mission is to provide a forum to advance public interest in indie film; to support every year a new generation of filmmakers with a unique vision; to draw worldwide attention to Prague as a center for cinema; and to promote artistic excellence and the creative freedom of artists without censure. 

Previous winners of our festival are directors such as Morad Mostafa ("HENET WARD", premiered: Clermont Int Film Festival), Molly Manning Walker ("GOOD THANKS, YOU?", premiered: Semaine de la Critique – Cannes),Zachary Woods (“DAVID”, premiered: Festival de Cannes) and others. The films that were at our festival are part of VOD platforms such as NETFLIX, MUBI or Amazon Prime.

In the Czech premiere, the festival already presented more than 30 films, ten of which were films that premiered at the Festival de Cannes, Berlinale, Clermont, Venice or Sundance. We cooperate with global distributors such as Salaud Morisset or LightsOn. We reach out to national film centers and look for the newest talents of individual countries.

At the end of last year (2023), according to FilmFreeway, our festival was:
TOP 100 MOST POPULAR FILM FESTIVALS IN WORLDWIDE
TOP 50 MOST POPULAR FILM FESTIVAL IN EUROPE
TOP 10 MOST POPULAR FILM FESTIVAL IN EASTERN EUROPE

In the current month of MARCH 2024, our festival is (according FilmFreeway):
TOP 10 BEST REVIEWED FILM FESTIVALS IN EUROPE
TOP 2 BEST REVIEWED FILM FESTIVALS IN EASTERN EUROPE

The moderator of the festival is Natalie Golovchenko, a graduate of JAMU, who is mainly known from Czech TV series. The festival also includes a Networking Party and Q&A for filmmakers who win the prize. Just like last year, we welcomed a large number of Czech filmmakers and film enthusiasts, we believe that it will be the same this year as well. As one of the few festivals in Europe, we can be proud that we have screened films from every continent of the world. We screened more than 100 films from 23 countries. In some seasons, the festival also organizes its screenings outside the festival days - we held a special screening: the Golden Selection of Cannes films, or a screening of Ukrainian short films. In four years, we received more than 12,000 submissions, of which more than 10,000 films were watched and thoroughly evaluated by our jury. Projects came from more than 150 countries around the world, and an international jury awarded prizes to the best films. Many filmmakers went home with a nice trophy.

Every year, the festival tries to recognize new talents and open the doors of cinema to them.
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