Zlín Film Festival

Zlín Film Festival, also known as the International Film Festival for Children and Youth (Czech: Mezinárodní festival filmů pro děti a mládež) is an annual festival of children's film in Zlín in the Czech Republic, founded in 1961 in the former Czechoslovakia.

The first festival took place in 1961, 20 years after a previous film festival had been held in Zlín, named Film Harvest (Czech: Filmové žně) or Zliennale.

In 1936, entrepreneur Jan Antonín Baťa founded a new film studio in the city, which gradually turned into Czechoslovakia's most prominent centre of filmmaking focused on children and youth.

[citation needed] Film-makers such as Karel Zeman, Hermína Týrlová, Alexandr Hackenschmied, Břetislav Pojar and Josef Pinkava created their works in the Zlín film studios.

The 64th edition was held from 30 May to 5 June and featured 293 films from 55 countries.

Zlín skyscraper at night
Opening with the fireworks