Empowering Excellence

The Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival has built one of the most extensive festival programmes for children and teenage audiences in Europe. Over the next three years, it plans to share this unique Czech know-how with representatives of film festivals from around the world. The organisers’ aim is for the number of festivals that include programmes for children and young people in their official dramaturgy to grow significantly by 2029.

The art festival Prague Art Week is developing Meet the Scene, a programme that brings international curators, cultural managers, critics and other visual arts professionals to Prague. Its second edition, planned for September, aims to further strengthen the international visibility of the Czech visual arts scene, expand its professional contacts and create new opportunities for international cooperation.

The PPF Foundation is proud to support the International Festival of Animated Films for the fourth time. Anifilm is not just a showcase for Czech talent, it’s an event where Czech creators get to meet their counterparts from other countries and which annually confirms that the Czech Republic has a firm foothold in the world of animated films.

The International Book Fair and Literary Festival Book World Prague is the biggest celebration of literature in the Czech Republic. Central and East European Book Market, which was established two years ago with our support, is a part of the event for the third time. CEE Book Market serves as a meeting-place and an experience sharing platform for book industry professionals in Central and East European countries. In 2026 the Czech Republic will be the guest of honour at Frankfurter Buchmesse, the world’s largest book fair, and CEE Book Market is one of the institutions that will represent the country there.

New circus company Cirk La Putyka has won acclaim and recognition not only on the Czech cultural scene, but also internationally. Its success is founded on a big helping of talent, fifteen years’ hard work and a vision based on the conviction that to be truly successful, you have to cooperate with and simultaneously to rival the very best at home and around the world.

Viktor Tauš, the author and director of Snowflakes, gave his play the subtitle “a live action trailer for the film Girl America”. The film Girl America, the culmination of more than ten years’ work by Tauš, has its Czech cinema release this week. But that is not the limit of its ambitions – international distribution at the end of the year is the next step. On the international scene, too, Snowflakes will pave the way for the film with our support.

There is no better way to delight cycling fans than to give them the chance to experience first-hand the atmosphere of the famous Tour de France. With our support, L’Etape Czech Republic will make this dream come true for Czech amateur cyclists for the fourth time this year.