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The festival, which marks its 48th edition the first week of June in a town also famous for its Bata shoe factory and Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier 1920s architecture, will films featuring homesexual love, racially-mixed relationships and other controversial subjects aimed at older teenagers, students and adults.
"We want to challenge the conservative cultural values that dominate Czech society," said Ondrej Hrudka, recently appointed international pr manager for the festival.
"The films will be shown late in the evening well after the bedtime for the children and younger people who participate in the festival."
New British films will also show in a new festival section.
Hrudka, who learned his English in Manchester, is working closely with cultural body the British Council to program the new sidebar, he told Variety.
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