Ji.hlava IDFF announces first titles, retrospectives, opening film for 2024 edition
The 28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, set to take place from 25 October to 3 November 2024, has announced
Vit Klusák
Knocking on heaven’s door
RUSSIA: Gorbachev’s twilight years captured by now exiled Russian director
Investigating religious power in Poland
RELIGION: The entertaining and self-reflecting Czech film crew embark on a surrealistic road movie to unveil the wickedness behind the facade of the Catholic Church in Poland.
A new film movement on the rise
ENVIRONMENT: Humans are extraordinary in how they manage to isolate themselves away from their problems.
Playing in the online dark
ABUSE: In a radical psychosocial experiment, the scope of online child abuse in the Czech Republic is uncovered.
More Naive Than Nazi
A portrait of an average, everyday Neo-Nazi, The White World According to Daliborek illustrates East-Central European ennui in the form of a gently ironic documentary.
A Pre-war Comedy
The creators of 2004’s fake hypermarket, Czech Dream, return with a second feature documentary, moving away from their country’s consumerist tendencies and to its knack of being occupied by military forces. Along their journey, the filmmakers are confronted with various presidents, pieces of false information, wartime pop tunes and a wild boar named Jonas.