Famous French director Claude Lelouch was born on 30.10.1937.He had dramatic childhood in occupied France, where he had to hide with his half Jewish parents from Gestapo. He is film self- made man and at the beginning of his career he not only wrote script, but also produced and directed his film and also stood behind camera. He fended off failure of his first films which were panned by critics and the luck shone at him in 1966 when he shot in few weeks with minimum budget a movie A Man and a Woman, which not only brought him many awards world-wide, including Academy Award, but also became one of the most important films in history of world cinematography. Almost every year he came with new film which were well accepted by audience and won awards but failed by the critics. He collaborated three times with Jean- Paul Belmondo and also with Annie Girardot, Jacques Brel or Jean Louis Trintignant. Very often he focuses on showing love between man and woman, about ordinary life and rational and irrational things. Despite being over 80.he didn´t slow own and still makes new films.

Jiří Menzel is one of the most known, well respected and globally applauded Czech filmmaker. His way how he got to directing films was explained short while ago in his memoires book called „ Rozmarná léta“.

Famous and legendary Serbian director Emir Kusturica was a guest of FebioFest 2017, where he showed his film On milky way. It was for the first time in 40 years when he did so. He is very interesting, open and pleasant person who has very interesting looks at various things. It can be said that everything he touched in his life, turned into gold. He made great movies which won many international awards, wrote autobiography which sold more than 110 000 copies and with his band Emir Kusturica and The NO Smoking Orchestra he toured the World. Since his days at Prague film academy he speaks fluent Czech and despite his success he stays modest and down to Earth man.

Matthew Modine (1959) hails from a big family and has six siblings. His father used to run drive- in theaters and they lived in Utah for several years. When the land beneath drive –in theaters exceeded value of the theaters, they were torn down and family moved to California. Matthew graduated at Mar Vista High School and then moved to New York City, to pursue his interest in artistic life. He often played young American soldiers fighting in Vietnam, not only in Robert Altman´s film Streamers, for which he and his mate shared the accolade on Venezia Film Festival or Alan Parker´s Birdy where he excelled with young Nicolas Cage. He refused to star in Top Gun, which brought fame to Tom Cruise but his moment came when playing Private Joker in famous Stanley Kubrick movie Full Metal Jacket.Then he depicted airman in Memphis Belle and to avoid labelling he often changed film genres and also played in theatre. He is intrepid ecological activist and he does care what happens around him. He must be a fine and nice man since we sent him questions for interview and he duly returned them month later.

Son of legendary film maker Ingmar Bergman made a flying visit to Zlín film festival.His schedule was packed but he still found some time for us. It was difficult not to ask him questions about his father but what Daniel revealed about his current attitude and profession was also very interesting and surprising.