Ms. President
POLITICS: A look at Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová’s transformative term.
The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
Located in Jihlava, Czech Republic
The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival is the largest festival of creative documentary films in Central and Eastern Europe. It draws attention to documentaries notable for their innovative visual style and a deeper social reflection and confrontation.
The Jihlava IDFF has a prominent place on the map of documentary film festivals, being also a member and co-founder of Doc Alliance, an initiative of seven key European documentary film festivals, the activities of which also include the selective documentary and experimental video-on-demand portal dafilms.com.
Ji.hlava IDFF 2024: the complete winners
The 28th Ji.hlava IDFF has announced the award winners. Tomorrow evening, Ji.hlava Online kicks off. It will run until November
Documenting our destruction
ENVIRONMENT: Fifty years after capturing America’s consumerist landscape, photographers revisit their work, offering a reflective documentary on environmental crises and unfulfilled promises.
Let the young die
CONFLICT: Ville Suhonen’s study of the cult of youth soldiers in inter-war Finland shows there’s nothing new in the old sacrificing the young for their own aims.
Modern remains
TOURISM: Combining performance, visual effects, newly captured and found footage, this hybrid work offers an exploratory journey through the desolate remnants of an abandoned tourist complex in Türkiye.
Born pre-polluted
HEALTH The dawn of the age of Homo Plasticus – or how plastics are going to kill us, unless we do something about them.
Commercial politics
ADVERTISING: Radu Jude’s latest weaves commercials from the past 35 years, creating a disorienting critique of capitalist culture, advertising, and national identity in post-communist Romania.
Ji.hlava is an ecosystem of issues that we live by
Ji.HLAVA IDFF: Dok.revue talks about this year’s programme with festival director Marek Hovorka, programme director Petr Kubica and programmer of experimental documentaries Andrea Slováková.
Ji.hlava IDFF announces full 2024 programme
The 28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival will run from 25 October to 3 November 2024, marking its first ten-day
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
The Sky Above Zenica
ENVIRONMENT: A Bosnian town grapples with pollution, health crises, and conflicting interests, as citizens demand accountability from a massive steel plant.
A million roses and coal
UKRAINE: The impact of war on three generations of women, blending personal stories, family archives, and historical parallels.