Director: Maria Jirmannova

Internet: www.rockart.cz/mhff

The first International Mountaineering Film Festival in Teplice nad MetujĖ took place in 1981 when the climber, photographer and film maker Miroslav Smid with his fellows managed to set up a short display of films by his friends-climbers.

In the first annuals the Festival had been approached mainly as a friendly meeting, an opportunity to share the experiences from the mountains from all over the world.

After the revolutionary events in 1989 the Festival had been cut for a period of three years.

However, the tragic death of Miroslav Smid, the Festival's founder, in 1993, was an impulse for a group of his friends to restore the faded away glory and the atmosphere of the Festival.

18th IMFF will take place in August, from the 23^rd to the 26^th, 2001, and will see there categories in competition: climbing, sports in the mountains and nature and life in the mountains.

The 2001 Cervino Film Festival
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