The New Europe section features the best of fresh work from around the continent, including buzz-worthy Romanian spy romance film Roxanne by Valentin Hotea and Poland's Life Feels Good, a true-life story of overcoming odds by Maciej Pieprzyca
World Panorama, meanwhile, features some films in 3D and will screen the latest work of past Kristian award winner Roman Polanski, Venus in Fur (2013). Jude Law will also introduce himself as the safecracker in Dom Hemingway (2013). The 3D spectacles Bull Running in Pamplona (2013), Stalingrad (2013) and genre-shifting film Gold (2013) by Germany's Thomas Arslan, are also slated.

Febiofest will also introduce the most acclaimed Polish film of the year, Ida by Pawel Pawlikowski (a guest of the 2012 festival). Alain Guiraudie has stirred the festival scene with Stranger by the Lake, which is included in the program as well, and Febiofest also returns to the films of Denis Villeneuve from Canada, who made the captivating Enemy with Jake Gyllenhaal.

The event, targeted at audiences seeking out international indie fare, is running 18 thematic film sections and some 436 screenings are set for Prague with more to follow in smaller cities through 15 April. Tickets go on sale at noon 12 March.

New Europe program:
2 Autumns, 3 Winters
France
Directed by Sebastien Betbeder

Heroin
Netherlands
Directed by René Houwen

Home
Sweden, Iceland
Directed by Maxmilian Hult

I am Yours
Norway
Directed by Iram Haq

Life Feels Good
Poland
Directed by Maciej Pieprzyca
Produced by Tramway

Princess of Egypt
Finland
Directed by Jan Forsström

Puppy Love
Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France
Directed by Delphine Lehericey

Rock the Casbah
Israel, France
Directed by Yariv Horowitz

Roxanne
Romania, Hungary
Directed by Valentin Hotea
Produced by Hi Film Productions, co-produced with Cor Leonis and Abis Studio

The Machine
UK
Directed by Caradog W. James

Wolf Children
Lithuania, Germany
Directed by Rick Ostermann

Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot
Italy
Directed by Matteo Oleotto