Well known and respected Polish director Agnieszka Holland was a star guest of FebioFest 2017.She has fans on both sides of Atlantic and is signed under such films as Europe, Europe, Burning Bush or Angry Harvest.In Prague she introduced her brand new film “Spoor” starring Czech actor Miroslav Krobot .Director, who will celebrate her 70^th birthday next year was very swift and witty so time spent with her was very pleasant. With impish smile accompanied with Churchill´s “ V” signs she announced that she got Doctorate at Prague Film university so we should address her as “ Doctor”.

Milan Cieslar is screenplay writer, producer and director who has around 30 titles under his belt.He chooses interesting and different topics and his biggest success was a war movie called „Der Lebensborg-Pramen života“.So far his last movie „ Život je život“was the mostly watched film of 2015.He established his own production company Happy Celluloid to keep his artistic and financial independence.We asked him for interview to which he obliged despite being busy with shooting a TV series.

Icon of American independent film Abel Ferrara was the guest of FebioFest 2017. He was kind of mercurial and at the beginning of press conference it seemed,.that he cares more about the copy of his film then about journalists who flocked in to ask him questions.He opened screening of his three films Welcome in New York, Pasolini and Bad Lieutenant.Our face to face interview was pretty quick, Abel was bit tired after doing all that stuff since lunch time so his answers were pretty short.

Miro Remo is very extraordinary film maker from Slovenian town Ladca where he was born in 1983.He studied VŠMU (Musical university) and for more than 10 years he is making documentaries. He writes scripts himself, stands behind camera and also directs. He picks up very interesting topics which bring controversy among people and make them discuss it. His student film Arsy-Versy made in 2009, won 40 prices at various international festivals and became the most successful Slovakian film in history. His total tally is so far 18 docufilms. On festival Letní filmová škola (Summer film school) in Uherské Hradiště, he showed his latest movie called Richard Müller-Nepoznaný. But also other films from his production were showed-Coolture a Comeback. We were very interested in meeting him and making this interview but his programme ended before we arrived to the venue. He did remarkable thing, postponed his departure, waited for our train to come, answered our questions and then took his family and headed to Bratislava. Amazing.

Top British cinematographer Peter Suschitzky works behind lenses for over a half of century. He collaborated with big bunch of directors but the biggest joy and success he gained alongside David Cronenberg with whom he made 11 movies. Very kind and pleasant gentleman came into Prague as a guest of FebioFest where he received main award Kristian for excellent achievement in film industry. It is nice, that while he still works with top technology and with big crews, he does care about human aspect in his business.