Festival cooperation with charity organisations

The Karlovy Vary IFF offers charity organizations and foundations opportunities to take part in an attractive media environment and avail themselves of the large numbers of festival visitors to present their community service programmes and projects on a major scale.

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival partners with the Jakub Voráček Foundation

Photo Credit: Jakub Voráček Foundation

The official nonprofit partner of the 58th Karlovy Vary IFF is the Jakub Voráček Foundation, whose main objective is to help patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Founded in June 2015 by Jakub Voráček, one of the most famous Czech hockey players, and his sister Petra Klausová, the Jakub Voráček Foundation aims to improve the quality of life for patients with multiple sclerosis. Petra lives with the diagnosis, runs the foundation and has seen first-hand the challenges that patients with the disease face in the Czech Republic.

During his long-standing career in the NHL, Jakub Voráček financially supported the foundation's activities based on the success of his Canadian scoring in each season of the world’s most famous hockey competition. Following the end of his active playing career, this form of financial support was taken over by the most successful Czech hockey player of the present, David Pastrňák.

In previous years we have supported:

Club of People with Cystic Fibrosis
The Alliance of Women with Breast Cancer
Jedlička Institute Foundation
DebRA ČR
Helping Paws n.g.o.
Firefly Project of the Czech Radio Endowment
Barriers Account Project
Charter 77 Foundation
Drop of Hope fund
Centrum Paraple
Pomozte dětem – Help the Children
Amnesty International
The Taťána Kuchařová Foundation – Beauty of Help