{"id":38039,"date":"2017-10-20T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/?post_type=novinka&p=38039"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:04:41","slug":"ji-hlava-opens-with-the-lust-for-power-by-tereza-nvotova","status":"publish","type":"novinka","link":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/news\/ji-hlava-opens-with-the-lust-for-power-by-tereza-nvotova\/","title":{"rendered":"Ji.hlava opens with The Lust for Power by Tereza Nvotov\u00e1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The documentary autumn festival season is ready to start! The 21st edition of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (October 24 \u2013 29, 2017) <\/a>kicks off and opens with a Slovak documentary The Lust\u00a0for Power by Tereza Nvotov\u00e1.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Lust for Power<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (dir. Tereza Nvotov\u00e1) is the first Slovak documentary competing in the main competition of Ji.hlava IDFF Opus Bonum. The section selects the best noteworthy documentaries representing diverse trends from around the world. Nvotov\u00e1 approaches a significant figure of recent Slovak history Vladim\u00edr Me\u010diar from several different directions.<\/p>\n

Nvotov\u00e1 told: \u201cWhen I was 10-years-old, we\u00b4d make believe that we were E. T., Winnetou or Me\u010diar. Now I want to find out who he really was and what he has done to us and to our country because now I see the same story playing out all over the world.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

Competition sidebar Exprmntl.cz that surveys the latest Czech experimental films features a short film Today<\/em> (d. Simona Donovalov\u00e1), a portrait of sunlight, created on 35mm film negative using a camera obscura built by the filmmaker. The section also screens another Donovalov\u00e1’s short Trace I Leave<\/em> (Behind)<\/em><\/strong> out of competition. <\/span><\/p>\n

The programme also showcases\u00a0three Slovak documentaries about notable artists. This Is Not Me<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (dir. Miro Remo), an intimate insight into the life of a legendary singer Richard M\u00fcller, and \u010cerven\u00e1<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>(dir. Olga Sommerov\u00e1) revealing private life and the career of world famous opera singer and actress So\u0148a \u010cerven\u00e1, are screened within the Czech Television Documentaries section.<\/p>\n

A portrait of the legend of Czechoslovak music scene Varga<\/strong> <\/em>(dir. Sona Maletz) is introduced within Famu Presents. The film takes a look at rock keyboardist Mari\u00e1n Varga (1947\u20132017) near the end of his life when he was diagnosed with a terminal illness.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Slovak representatives take part in the Industry programme. Producer Barbara Jani\u0161ov\u00e1 Feglov\u00e1 was selected for Emerging Producers and Barbora Berez\u0148\u00e1kov\u00e1 with her project Never Happneed for Ex Oriente Film workshop.<\/p>\n

The Slovak member of the Between the Seas Jury is a renowned documentarist Robert Kirchhoff. \u013dubo\u0161 Slov\u00e1k, enviromental philospher and activists, is member of A Testimony on Nature jury.<\/p>\n

Slovak films in the programme:
\n24.10. | DKO | 20:00 | The Lust for Power<\/em><\/strong> (dir. Tereza Nvotov\u00e1)
\n25.10. | DKO | 20:00 | The Lust for Power<\/em><\/strong> (dir. Tereza Nvotov\u00e1)
\n26.10. | Mal\u00e1 sc\u00e9na HDJ | 20:00 This Is not Me<\/strong><\/em> (dir. Miro Remo)
\n26.10. | Dukla Edison | 21:00 | Trace I Leave (Behind)<\/em><\/strong> (dir. Simona Donovalov\u00e1)
\n27.10 | Dukla Edison | 17:30 | Today<\/em> <\/strong>(dir. Simona Donovalov\u00e1)
\n27.10. | Mal\u00e1 sc\u00e9na HDJ | 20:00 \u010cerven\u00e1<\/em> <\/strong>(dir. Olga Sommerov\u00e1)
\n27.10. | Velk\u00e1 sc\u00e9na HDJ | 22:00 Varga<\/em> <\/strong>(dir. Sona Maletz)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The documentary autumn festival season is ready to start! The 21st edition of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Oct 24 \u2013 29, 2017) kicks off and opens with a Slovak documentary The Lust for Power by Tereza Nvotov\u00e1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"kategorie_noviniek":[1965,2038,2036,2037,2145,2152],"festival":[],"rok":[],"class_list":["post-38039","novinka","type-novinka","status-publish","hentry","kategorie_noviniek-aic","kategorie_noviniek-archive","kategorie_noviniek-english","kategorie_noviniek-news","kategorie_noviniek-prezentacia-en","kategorie_noviniek-slovak-cinema-abroad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/novinka\/38039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/novinka"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/novinka"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_noviniek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_noviniek?post=38039"},{"taxonomy":"festival","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festival?post=38039"},{"taxonomy":"rok","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rok?post=38039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}