Václav Kadrnka

Václav Kadrnka studied theatre science in Great Britain, where he moved with his mother in 1988 to join his father, who had emigrated for political reasons the year before. He worked as assistant director to Vojtěch Jasný, and from 1999 to 2008 studied feature film direction at Prague's FAMU.

His acclaimed student films were presented at the IFFs in Mar del Plata, Munich, New York, Karlovy Vary and Berlin. His feature film debut Eighty Letters was premiered at the Berlinale in 2011. This reconstruction of a single day in communist Czechoslovakia as experienced by a fourteen-year-old boy played at numerous world festivals and received important awards. In 2012 Kadrnka won the Czech Film Critics Award as Discovery of the Year. He spent four years preparing the groundwork for his second film Little Crusader.

MFF Karlovy Vary