Can justice be brought?
CONFLICT: A film set in the present, about the past, that points to the future…
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.
The third message
BIOGRAPHY: By focusing on her artistic approach to language, the complex and multi-layered Nobel laureate also reveals the deep contradictions of her native Austria.
The «Grind» of the pilot whale
ANIMALS: Activists and locals clash during the traditional Faroe Islands pilot whale hunt.
Ulrich Seidl’s Sparta and the question of ethics in filmmaking
ETHICS: The first season of Ji.hlava’s IDFF Conference of Ethics in Filmmaking was a necessary conversation around the need for common ethical principles in documentary filmmaking.
Ji.hlava 2022: the complete winners
The 26th Ji.hlava IDFF has announced its winners. The award for the most notable international documentary film was granted to
«Visual artists are the quickest ones to reflect on what’s happening in society»
JIHLAVA IDFF: Marek Hovorka on the festival’s place within the wider industry landscape, his thoughts on the art vs content debate, and on its extensive film and event programme.
Jean-Luc Godard: Death was waiting
CINEMA: Four films and two books – can they capture something about this newly dead legend of cinema? Let me try, especially with Godard’s intellectual autobiography and two new films about him.
History repeating
WAR: Footage from a Soviet war crimes trial in Kiev in 1946 underscores today’s atrocities committed by the heirs to the Red Army in Ukraine.
The Philippines: Thousands of islands, thousands of positions and themes of documentary film
THE PHILLIPPINES: The following text introduces the concept of the retrospective of Philippine documentary cinema that will be presented at this year’s festival in Ji.hlava IDFF.
The revolution inside
BELARUS: A dreamy figure takes us through the protesting crowds of 2020 Belarus as dreams turn to nightmares.
Returning to ruins
PHOTOGRAPHY: Legendary Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka revisits more than 200 Hellenistic and Roman ancient cities he had shot over the past 26 years.