20th Annual Pavel Koutecký Award | February 9–12, 2026 | Prague

Gallery of the awarded films

2025

The Grand Finale of PSO (dir. Dominik Kalivoda, Czechia, 2024, 92 min)

Touching Darkness (dir. Jamaica Kindlová, Czechia, 2024, 5 min)

2024

Bedwetter (dir. Jan Hušek, Czechia, 2023, 61 min)

In the Dark (dir. Aneta J., Czechia, 2023, 10 min)

Special Mention: Doubt (dir. Adela Križovenská, Czechia, 2023, 5 min)

 

2023

Pongo Calling (dir. Tomáš Kratochvíl, Czechia/Slovakia/GB, 2022, 78 min)

Serpentis (dir. Sarah Lomenová, Czechia, 2022, 18 min)

Special Mention: The Landscape of Ashes (dir. Eliška Plechatová, Czechia, 2022, 5 min)

 

2022

Intensive Life Unit (dir. Adéla Komrzý, Czechia, 2021, 76 min)

JANG (dir. Josef Švejda, Czechia, 2022, 28 min)

Special Mention: How I Became a Partisan (dir. Vera Lacková, Slovakia/Czechia, 2021, 90 min)

 

2021

Traces of a Landscape (dir. Petr Záruba, Czechia/Italy, 2020, 68 min)

Czechia Deforested (dir. Mikoláš Arsenjev, Czechia, 2020, 14 min)

Special Mention: Railing (dir. Barbora Sommersová, Czechia, 2020, 6 min)

 

2020

FREM (dir. Viera Čákanyová, Czechia/Slovakia, 2019, 73 min)

S P A C E S (dir. Nora Štrbová, Czechia, 2020, 8 min)

2019

Empire Builders (dir. Andran Abramjan, Czechia, 2018, 83 min)

Me, Flamingo (dir. Elvira Dulskaia, Czechia, 2018, 15 min)

Special mention for editing: Tonička Janková (Inside Mosul)

 

2018

The Russian Job (dir. Petr Horký, Czechia, 2017, 64 min)

Úhorná (dir. Matej Šmelko, Czechia/Slovakia, 2017, 27 min)

Special Mention: Nothing Like Before (dir. Klára Tasovská/Lukáš Kokeš, Czechia, 2017, 92 min)

 

2017

5 October (dir. Martin Kollár, Slovakia/Czechia, 2016, 52 min)

Backstage (dir. Martin Mach/Dominik Truhlář, Czechia, 2016, 11 min)

2016

The Dangerous World of Doctor Doleček (dir. Kristýna Bartošová, Czechia, 2015, 72 min)

Kohoutková (dir. Veronika Lišková, Czechia, 2015, 7 min)

2015

Lean a Ladder Against Heaven (dir. Jana Ševčíková, Czechia, 2014, 100 min)

2014

DK (dir. Bára Kopecká, Czechia, 2013, 73 min)

2013

Two Nil (dir. Pavel Abrahám, Czechia, 2012, 104 min)

2012

The Tripoint (dir. Klára Řezníčková, Czechia, 2012, 59 min)

2011

Earthlings, who are you voting for? (dir. Linda Jablonská, Czechia, 2010, 30 min)

Special Mention: the band Dva (for music for films Bear Islands a All for the Good of the World and Nošovice!).

 

2010

Country of Dreams (dir. Martin Ryšavý, Czechia, 2009, 57 min)

2009

The Unwelcome (dir. Tomáš Škrdlant, Czechia, 2009, 95 min)

Special Mention: Forgotten Transports to Poland (dir. Lukáša Přibyl, Czechia, 2010, 85 min)

 

2008

The Tadpole, the Rabbit and the Holy Spirit (dir. Filip Remunda, Czechia, 2007, 26 min)

2007

A Low-level Flight (rdi. Jan Šikl, Czechia, 2006, 52 min)