{"id":38213,"date":"2019-10-22T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/?post_type=novinka&p=38213"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:53:58","slug":"ji-hlava-idff-2019","status":"publish","type":"novinka","link":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/news\/ji-hlava-idff-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"World premieres and digitally restored films at the 23rd Ji.hlava IDFF"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Numerous world and international premieres of the Slovak documentaries will take place within the 23rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival<\/a> (October 24 \u2013 29, 2019). The festival will also present a selection of eight digitally restored Slovak documentary shorts made in 1960s and 1970s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Competition section First Lights<\/a> will introduce feature-length debut FREM<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Viera \u010c\u00e1kanyov\u00e1 which reacts to the current wave of post-humanist thinking caused by the development of technology and artificial intelligence as well as the climate crisis. The film will also compete against Slovak documentaries Never Happened<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (dir. Barbora Berez\u0148\u00e1kov\u00e1), The Sound Is Innocent<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (dir. Johana O\u017evold) and The State Capture<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (dir. Zuzana Piussi) within Czech Joy<\/a> section.<\/p>\n

Documentary Paradise on Earth<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (dir. Jaro Vojtek) will world premiere in Between the Seas<\/a> section. The film about photographer and journalist Andrej B\u00e1n will be competing against The Calling<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Eric Praus capturing the life of three monks living at the Orthodox Pochayiv Lavra monastery in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The festival audience will also have a chance to see Communism and the Net or The End of Representative Democracy<\/strong><\/a><\/em> (dir. Karel Vachek) in its world premiere. The six-hour essay in four parts examines the history of regimes and revolutions, leaders and martyrs, from a philosophical perspective. The same non-competitive section Special Event<\/a> will pay tribute to recently deceased Slovak director M\u00e1ria Rumanov\u00e1 and screen her documentary Hotel Sunrise<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Czech Television Documentaries<\/a>, a section composed of Czech Television production, will feature biopic Ji\u0159\u00ed Such\u00fd \u2013 Tackling Life with Ease<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (dir. Olga Sommerov\u00e1).<\/p>\n

Beside the contemporary Slovak documentary production, classics from the collections of the National Film Archive of the SFI will be presented as well: Water and Work <\/em><\/strong>(1963) by Martin Slivka, Old Shatterhand Came to See Us<\/em> <\/strong>(1966) by Du\u0161an Han\u00e1k, Photographing the House-Dwellers<\/strong><\/em> (1968) by Du\u0161an Tran\u010d\u00edk, Lilli Marlen<\/em><\/strong> (1970) by Peter Mih\u00e1lik, Cursed Valley<\/em><\/strong> (1966) by \u0160tefan Kamenick\u00fd, Confession <\/strong><\/em>(1968) by Pavel S\u00fdkora, The Unfinished Chronicle<\/em><\/strong> (1967) by Rudolf Urc and I Am a Cursed Photographer<\/em><\/strong> (1969) by Julius Matula. The directors Du\u0161an Tran\u010d\u00edk and Rudolf Urc will attend the screening which also includes a presentation of the 2-DVD Slovak Documentary Film 60 from the SFI Publications Department, compiled by Rudolf Urc together with the film publicist Pavel Branko.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Slovak participant of Emerging Producers, a promotional and educational project that brings together talented European documentary film producers is Tom\u00e1\u0161 Krupa (HAILSTONE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Numerous world and international premieres of the Slovak documentaries will take place within the 23rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (October 24 \u2013 29, 2019). The festival will also present a selection of eight digitally restored Slovak documentary shorts made in 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42354,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"inline_featured_image":false},"kategorie_noviniek":[1965,2038,2036,2037,2145,2152,2150],"festival":[],"rok":[],"class_list":["post-38213","novinka","type-novinka","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_noviniek-aic","kategorie_noviniek-archive","kategorie_noviniek-english","kategorie_noviniek-news","kategorie_noviniek-prezentacia-en","kategorie_noviniek-slovak-cinema-abroad","kategorie_noviniek-slovak-classics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/novinka\/38213","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:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_noviniek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_noviniek?post=38213"},{"taxonomy":"festival","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festival?post=38213"},{"taxonomy":"rok","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rok?post=38213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}