20th jihlava idff programme specials competition sections

Exprmntl.cz

Best Czech experimental documentary film 2016.

Exprmntl.cz is a competition survey of the latest Czech experimental films that touch upon reality and never cease in their search for new ways of expressing reality through classical and digital film.

De Potentia Dei (Ondřej Vavrečka, 2016, 66’); World Premiere

Dialogue (Kryštof Strejc, 2016, 7’); World Premiere

Funeral (Vladimír Turner, 2016, 10’); World Premiere

Hoax (Jakub Korselt, 2016, 1’); World Premiere

The Colonel’s Photograph (Martina Holá, 2016, 4’); Czech Premiere

Night of the Hunter (Jiří Žák, 2016, 23’); World Premiere

To Be Framed (Zbyněk Baladrán, 2016, 8’); Central European Premiere

Water Pure Azur (Adéla Kudlová, 2016, 4’); World Premiere

WhereWhoYouMeAre (Jakub Krejčí, 5’); World Premiere

Short Joy

Best short documentary film 2016

Short Joy presents a competition selection of the best documentary shorts – consummate works exploring the possibilities and strenghts of documentary film within a limited time framework
Beast (Alyx Ayn Arumpac, Hungary, Philippines, 2016, 18’); World Premiere

Ten Meter Tower (Maxmilien Van Aetryck, Axel Danielson, Sweden, 2016, 16’); Czech Premiere

Coming of Age (Jan Soldat, Germany, 2016, 14’); Czech Premiere

Jungle (Colia Vranici, France, 2016, 18’); East European Premiere

Cooling Waters (Jonas Scheu, Bosnia a Herzegovina, Schweiz, 2015, 8’); East European Premiere

The Horses of a Cavalry Captian (Clemens von Wedemeyer, Germany, 2015, 11’); Czech Premiere

I Wish (Antonio Anton, Spain, 2016, 7’); East European Premiere

Summer (Ronny Trocker, France, Belgium, 2016, 7’); Czech Premiere

Blue Sky from Pain (Stephanos Magkriotis, Hycinthe Pavlides, Greece, France, 2016, 14’); International Premiere

Waste no. 2 Wreck (Jan Iljäs, Finland, Italy, 2016, 10’); Czech Premiere

24 Praska St (Patrycja Polkowska, Poland, 2016, 17’); International Premiere

Dream (Laila Pakalnina, Latvia, 2016, 7’); World Premiere

Consumed (Richard Seymour, United Kingdom, China, 2016, 19’); International Premiere

Murmuration x 10 (Sarah Wood, United Kingdom, 2015, 22’); East European Premiere

Transit (Mandy Krebs, Germany, Luxembourg, 2016, 11’); World Premiere

Zagreb Confidenial – Imaginary Futures (Darko Fritz, Croatia, 2015, 14’); Central European Premiere

First lights

Best documentary debut 2016
First Lights, a section that rises over the entire competition programme, focuses on the first and second great works of beginning documentary filmmakers.

The jury consist of the US experimenter David Dinnell, programmer of Hot Docs Dorota Lech, film critic Wu Lin, film critic Laurence Reymond and cartoonist and curator Gertjan Zuilhof.
27 Times Time (Annick Ghijzelings, Belgium, 2016, 73‘); International Premiere

Czech Journal:Teaching War (Adéla Komrzý, 2016, 70’); World Premiere

Yellowing (Tze-Woon Chan, Hongkong, 2016, 128’); European Premiere

Depth Two (Ognjen Glavonic, Serbia, France, 2016, 80‘); Czech Premiere

My Name is Hungry Buffalo (Pavel Jurda, 2016, 83’); World Premiere

Taego Ãwa (Henrique Borela, Marcela Borela, Brazil, 2016, 75‘); East European Premiere

Metaphysics and Democracy (Luis Ortiz, Germany, Colombia, 2016, 60‘); World Premiere

Among Houses and the Cosmos (Kostana Banovic, Netherlands, Bosnia a Herzegovina, 2016, 70 ‘);World Premiere

Sea Tomorrow (Suvorova Katerina, Kazakhstan, Germany, 2015, 88’); East European Premiere

Instructions for Use of Jiři Kolař (Roman Štětina, 2016, 130’); World Premiere

Notorious Deeds (Gabriel Tempea, Romania, 2015, 68’); World Premiere

Te Dazzling Light of Sunset (Salomé Jashi, Georgia, Germany, 2016, 74’); Central European Premiere

The Nature of Things (Laura Viezzoli, Italy, 2016, 68‘); East European Premiere

The Things (Nino Gogua, Georgia, 2016, 62’); World Premiere

A Distant Echo (George Clark, United States, United Kingdom, 2016, 84‘); World Premiere Helena’s Law (Petra Nesvačilová, 2016, 77’); World Premiere

NON-COMPETITION SECTIONS

Special Events

Exceptional cinema events that guide us through a deep and critical reflection of the meanders of lived life in an unparalleled manner
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (Werner Herzog, United States, 2016, 98’); Czech Premiere

This Oscar-nominated chronicle of the virtual world offers a multifaceted look at the tangled landscape of the internet from its birth to the present day. In a series of encounters with people from all over the planet, Herzog shows how the virtual world is becoming a part of our lives, changing every aspect of contemporary human culture and society.

Peshmerga (Bernard-Henri Lévy, France, Iraq, 2016, 92’); East European Premiere

This wartime essay spends several months following the Kurdish fighters in their struggle against the Islamic State. Rich on information, the film is based on an emotional contrast between visually captivating footage of battle and the consequences of war, accompanied by the filmmaker’s strongly rhetorical commentary.