KINOMIXER 2026
HORRORS, FANTASY and SCI-FI film festival
Prague | Bio Oko 23. – 25. 1. 2026
The fourth edition of the Kinomixer film festival will take place from January 24 to 26, 2025, at the Bio Oko cinema in Prague. Look forward to a carefully curated selection of the best in global genre cinema. Expect thrilling horror, captivating fantasy, and stunning sci-fi. KINOMIXER promises a breathtaking cinematic odyssey that will blown your mind.
We are very grateful to the Prague 7 district for the financial support of the event.
Future Gate Sci-fi Film Festival 2026 will take place in September and October 2026.
Kinomixer
Stylish, brutally violent, and blood-soaked, Chris Marrs Piliero’s debut feature is a chilling reflection of a world where the line between reality and fiction is dangerously blurred, and a viral video can destroy a life in seconds.
Appofeniacs
Prague 23.1. 18:15 Bio Oko
Deathstalker is an ironic yet sincere celebration of heroic fantasy packed with swords, magic, and rubber-suit monsters. This over-the-top ride, guided by Steven Kostanski (Psycho Goreman), serves up bloody battles, demons, and heroic bravado in pure B-movie bliss.
Deathstalker
Prague 24.1. 21:00 Bio Oko
Digitally restored, Fritz Lang's expressionist film Destiny (1921) enchants with its unique visual language and restored period toning techniques. The screening will be accompanied live by lutenist Jozef van Wissem, whose hypnotic music inspired by regional traditions and modern motifs will enhance the film's dreamy and timeless atmosphere.
Destiny + Jozef van Wissem
Prague 24.1. 18:45 Bio Oko
Soy Frankelda is the first Mexican stop-motion feature film, earning critical acclaim and screening at numerous prestigious international festivals.
I Am Frankelda
Prague 25.1. 17:30 Bio Oko
You can look forward to short films that can be entertaining, harsh, and unsettling, but above all, they won’t leave you feeling calm.
iShorts: Kinomixer 2026
Prague 23.1. 20:30 Bio Oko
Guests
Jozef van Wissem
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Bio Oko | Destiny 24. 1. 18:45
is an avant-garde composer and baroque lutenist, known for his innovative approach to music. He performs worldwide with his signature black baroque lute and creates hypnotic, minimalist and darkly meditative music. His lyrics have a mythic-Christian feel and often work with motifs of love, faith and the afterlife. He collaborated with Jim Jarmusch on the award-winning soundtrack for the film Only Lovers Left Alive (Cannes Soundtrack Award 2013), for which van Wissem won the Best Soundtrack Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Van Wissem has composed music for a number of films including The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Nosferatu (1922), The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), Un Prince (Cannes Award 2023) and the series Irma Vep (HBO). He performs in clubs, festivals and churches and has collaborated with artists such as Tilda Swinton and Zola Jesus. His latest projects include the album The Night Dwells in the Day (2024), new film scores and an upcoming solo album and world tour in 2026. On Saturday, January 24, Jozef van Wissem will perform the legendary film by Fritz Lang, Destiny. In his interpretation, Jozef van Wissem draws on the regional folk music of the places depicted in the individual segments, while simultaneously updating it with modern musical ideas. In doing so, he underscores the film’s central theme: love is stronger than death.
About the festival
Future Gate is the largest festival of science fiction film and culture in Central Europe.
Over the 11 years of its existence, the festival has built a strong audience base of not only film lovers but also fans of science and future technologies.
Thousands of people regularly visit each year's events.
Every year the festival invites distinguished guests from abroad and interesting local personalities from the world of film and science.
The aim of the festival is not only to entertain the audience but also to provide them with an original experience of meeting the filmmakers and to educate them at lectures in the areas of modern technology, while at the same time highlighting current topics that are shaping the world.
The film programme features premieres of the latest titles, complemented by genre legends, documentaries, series marathons, and student and short films. The mainstay of the festival is an international competition of feature films premiered in the Czech Republic.
In 11 years, the festival t has been at מּended by over 55,000 spectators, making it the largest science fiction film festival in Central Europe. The festival takes place in cities Prague, Brno, Pilsen, Hradec Králové, Šumperk, Olomouc, Hodonín and Košice.
Future Gate has been ranked among the top 100 genre festivals in the world, won the main European award for the best sci- festival in the EU in 2012, and has partnered with international festivals such as Sitges or Slash!.
Distinguished international guests include: Neill Blomkamp (director: District 9, Elysium), Michael Ironside (actor: Starship Troopers, Total Recall), Chips Hardy (writer: Taboo, War with the Newts), Norman Love (actor: Red Dwarf), Terry Rawlings (editor: Blade Runner, Alien, GoldenEye), Kurt van der Basch (storyboardist: Star Wars, Jurrasic Park), Jozef van Wissem (Cannes Grand Prix winner for the soundtrack of Only Lovers Survive), Phil Tippe (director: Mad God, Oscar winner for visual effects: Star Wars, Jurrasic Park), Takahide Hori (director: Junk Head) and many many others.
Some of the filmmakers, scientists and inspirational people from the Czech Republic who also made an appearance: Jaroslav Petr, Csc. (biologist), Ing. Petr, Prof. Petr, Mgr. Jan Romportl, Ph.D. (philosopher), Mgr. Jakub Rozehnal (Director of the Prague Observatory and Planetarium), Ondřej (novelist), Jindřich Šídlo (journalist), Officer of the General of the Army of the Czech Republic Col. Otakar Foltýn, Andrea Slováková (filmmaker, dean of FAMU), artists Vlasta Toman and Jonáš Ledecký, Tomáš Baldýnský (screenwriter: Kosmo series), film critic Kamil Fila, scientist Jan Lukačevič and many others.
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Tomáš Müller, Vladana Brouková, Zita Adamová, Marko Veselinović, Jakub Klíma, Radim Kratochvíil, Pavel Záboj, Tomáš Krejčí, Jonáš Ledecký, Michal Suchánek, Ondřej Filgas, Martin Vodička, Viktor Tesařík, Tereza Bartůňková, Bedřich Němec, Zuzana Václavová, Jiří Dušek, Milan Šimánek, Barbora Suchyňová, Jana Glocarová, Kristína Malíková, Kamil Navrátil, Lukáš Berberich, Slavomíra Macáková, Martin Štefan.
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