The 31st edition of the International Film Festival Art Film, which will take place this year from 20 to 27 June 2025 in Košice, is approaching fast, and the name of the famous actress who will receive the Actor’s Mission this summer is already known a few months before its start.
Since 1995, the festival has presented this award to actors for their outstanding contribution to film acting. In the past, this award was presented to acting legends such as Zdeněk Svěrák and Zuzana Kronerová, as well as world stars such as Claudia Cardinale and Geraldine Chaplin. This year, the prominent Czech film, television and theatre actress Daniela Kolářová will join the acting legends of international and Slovak cinema.
“Czech actress Daniela Kolářová is one of the stable stars of Czechoslovak cinematography. There is no doubt about her creative contribution in the field of film art. She has appeared permanently and incessantly on silver screen and television screen since 1965. She has created a number of unforgettable character roles, thanks to which she gained admiration and attention from many viewers across the former Czechoslovakia. It is an honour for Art Film to welcome such a significant actor to the festival and to award her the honorary Actor’s Mission award for her exceptional contribution to film,” says the festival’s art director Martin Palúch.
“In her best films she appeared alongside Jaromír Hanzlík in A Night at Karlstein (1973), with Zdeněk Svěrák in Seclusion Near A Forest (1976) and Empties (2007), with Oldřich Kaiser in Meeting in July (1978) and with Josef Abrahám in Ball Lightning (1978). Her performances in popular series of that period such as The Saleswoman (1977) or in the cult series Hospital at the End of the City (1977–1981) are unforgettable as well. Together with the previous laureates of the Actor’s Mission award – Iva Janžurová, Jiřina Bohdalová and Jana Brejchová – Daniela Kolářová belongs to the most popular generation of Czech actresses to this day,” added Martin Palúch.
In addition to film and television acting, she worked for many years at Vinohrady Theatre, where she portrayed many distinctive theatre characters. For her performance in Thomas Bernhard’s Am Ziel at Prague Comedy Theatre, she won the Alfréd Radok Award for her portrayal of a mother at the end of March 2005. She also performed at Na zábradlí Theatre, Švandovo Theatre and many others.
Film fans can meet Daniela Kolářová in Košice in June during the 31st
edition of the IFF Art Film, where she will receive the Actor’s Mission award. Current information about the festival as well as cinepasses is available at www.iffartfilm.com.
The 31th edition of the IFF ART FILM will take place thanks to the support of:
Organiser: ART FILM FEST s.r.o.;
Co-organizers: City of Košice, K13 – Košice cultural centers, ART FILM FEST, n.o., LGM, s.r.o., FORLIVE;
The festival was financially supported by: Audiovisual Fund
The festival is co-financed by the Košice self-governing region from the Terra Incognita program;
Main partner: národná lotériová spoločnosť TIPOS;
Main media partners: TV JOJ, Pravda, Eurotelevízia;
Advertising partner: Kino Úsmev;
Technological partners: NOV, ZEBRA, DELTA OnLine, ARICOMA, TelekomCLOUD;
Official contractors: DKC Veritas, Eastern Slovak Museum in Košice, Café Slavia;
Media partners: JOJ PLAY, JOJ 24, Film Europe, Rádio KOŠICE, Forbes, Korzár, Slovenka, SITA, TASR, See & Go, BigMedia, Košice City Guide, Film.sk, Visit Košice, zenskyweb.sk, MOJAkultúra;
Partners: JOJ Cinema, Slovenský filmový ústav;
