Ji.hlava IDFF announces full 2022 programme
For its 2022 edition, the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival will screen over three hundred films across all sections, including
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.
DAFilms hosts free online exclusive Ji.hlava IDFF Short Joy programme
From today (10 October), «Short Joy», the competitive international short film section Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, will be presented
Ji.hlava IDFF announces 2022 European New Visions projects
16 new European documentary projects will be presented at the 2nd Ji.hlava IDFF (25 – 30 October) New Visions Forum,
When climate change is not the main issue
COMMUNITY: It’s more than icebergs and permafrost vanishing in the Arctic as a young anthropologist discovers in Svalbard, Norway.
A lesson in past and present war crimes
UKRAINE: Sergei Loznitsa’s new archive-based doc is an impressive reconstruction of the trial of 15 Nazi officers in Kiev after World War II, inevitably making the viewer reflect on more recent war crimes.
Ji.hlava IDFF announces first titles for 2022 festival
Six weeks remain until the start of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, which will take place from 25 to
Understanding terror
TERRORISM Uncovering the history of the Islamic State through the lenses of its now-detained members, capturing the reality of life in a land ravaged by war.
Darkest days of military rule
LEGACY: A son’s search for meaning at the site of a former Argentinian concentration camp where his mother «disappeared» in the 1970s.
The means to gaze into the fire
WAR: Confronting Serbia’s wartime past and the evil that is still on the loose today.
Musical resilience
CULTURE: An insight into the unique liveliness of a forgotten subculture from emigrated Turkish guest workers and their grandchildren in Germany.
Safe sex scenes
SEX: Exploring the female body in Hollywood by tracing the making of sex scenes, the toll it takes on those involved, and what it means for women in the real world.