Tereza Smetanová’s short graduation film Seablindness will have its premiere at the Doclisboa festival in the Green Years competition. The Lisbon festival takes place from 16 to 26 October 2025.
The documentary poem explores ecological anxiety and draws attention to largely “invisible” globalized maritime transport, even though up to 90% of everything we consume is shipped to us by boat. The film, shot in Gdańsk, Gdynia, Rijeka, Koper, and Trieste, observes the lives of people and animals near ports, giant cranes, and warehouses: we see a child learning to swim in the shade of a crane, wild birds grazing by the container towers, or young people in kayaks blocking the dock for a brief moment
The film is a co-production of the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and CinePunkt, and produced by Tereza Tokárová. In March this year, it was presented at the Bratislava Industry Days, organized by the Slovak Film Institute and the International Film Festival Febiofest, where it won the main prize, the Best Febio Pitch Award.
In addition to Doclisboa, Seablindness will also be screened at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, with both festivals showing the film in a shared world premiere. Tereza Smetanová’s previous film VALE TUDO premiered at the Jihlava festival in 2023.
More information at: doclisboa.org/en
