Duration (in minutes): 78 minutes
Country of production: Czech Republic
Year of Production: 2022
Directors: Jana Ševčíková
Time of Showing: Friday 9th of June 2023, 16:45-18:30
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Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Arna Novaka 1, Room C34

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Jana Ševčíková and Galina Šustová

Six young people are going through different stages of blindness. Energy, sarcasm and spontaneity allow for a captivating immersion into their inner world. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, at least for a while" becomes the film’s central message not only for them, but for us all. All supported by black and white images with excellent sound and music collage.

About the filmaker

With films that reflect on life in contemporary Eastern Europe, Czech filmmaker Jana Ševčíková has distinguished herself as a practitioner of poetic documentary. A graduate of the Prague Film Academy, her thesis film, Piemule (1984), offers a frank examination of Czech émigrés in Romania during the final years of Ceausecu‘s totaltitarian regime. She has produced films independently, such as Jakub (1992), and received state funding from the Czech Ministry of Culture. Her films have been shown at festivals in Berlin, Strasbourg, Karlovy Vary and Cracow. Praised throughout Europe, Ševčíková‘s intimately crafted works challenge the distanced conventions of ethnographic filmmaking.