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: Inspiration Forum, a unique experience uncommon for most film festivals, brings scientists, politicians, artists, social reformers, and journalists together with documentary filmmakers and attending public to discuss complex problems of today’s world.
ABUSE: The daily lives of three women of different backgrounds struggling to break free from violent relationships
Ji.hlava: Modern Times Review speaks with Ji.hlava’s Programme Director, Petr Kubica.
CLIMATE: By making us witnesses to our consumption of the Earth, Anthropocene – the Human Epoch is a planetary portrait that makes room for nuanced irony and wonder, even while urging moral outcry.
DRUG WAR: Trapped within an abjectly corrupt architecture of power, many Mexicans are subject to the collusion between organised crime and state institutions in a deadly concert of terror.
ECOLOGY: The making of this film is itself an integral part of a drama involving the Chinese mafia, Mexican fishermen pushed into crime, fearless activists, frightened policemen and a rare species of mini whales.
TERRORISM: The Good Terrorist provides many inspiring images about Islamic terrorism but fails to explain the motives of those ready to kill in its name
RUSSIA: Meeting Gorbachev is an intimate and engaging portrait of the man who unwittingly prompted the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Immigration and memories of home are the two main themes of this year‘s edition of the Jihlava International Documentary Festival, says festival programmer Andrea Slovakova.
An essay-documentary meditating on future visions and utopias holds a dark heart given the current state of our society.
