We Have Unveiled the Visual Identity for the 65th Festival

This iconic logo first appeared at the festival’s 5th edition in 1965, which also marked the event’s international debut. Films from 23 countries made their way to Zlín that year, and more than 100 foreign guests attended. The program included an exhibition titled Czechoslovak Film for Children and Youth in the Liberated Homeland and a symposium called What Does Film Art Mean to Children and Youth?

The year 1965 also brought one other noteworthy innovation: the Golden Slipper made its first appearance as the festival’s main award. It went to the short story The Carp from Tales About Children, directed by Jiří Hanibal. Other honored films included the legendary The Hop Pickers, directed by Ladislav Richman, and Lolek and Bolek – The Shooters, directed by Władysław Nehrebecki, in the category of special effects films.

Rediscovered and now modernized—digitized, color-enhanced, and adapted—by Zdeněk Macháček from Studio 6.15, this original festival logo will help celebrate the jubilee 65th year of the festival.

I allow myself a bit of bold hope that this year’s redesigned festival logo will illuminate the city and draw everyone’s attention to the festival’s historical legacy—an extraordinary undertaking visited by millions of fellow citizens and movie-lovers,

Macháček remarked.

Thus, the symbolic figure that was once seen at the festival for many years returns in all its glory, and we are delighted it will be our hallmark again this year.

I trust the little character—who, for some, might be flying on a film carpet, or for others surfing on a film strip—will thrill this year’s festivalgoers just as much as it does us,

said Jarmila Záhorová, the Zlín Film Festival’s Executive Director.