The Czech documentary festival ran October 25-30
French director Judith Auffray’s 07:15 – Blackbird has won most notable international documentary film at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in the Czech Republic.
The 30-minute documentary follows a young girl and an old man who set off to identify an unknown bird. The film also won best cinematography.
A special mention was given to Canadian director Jennifer Baichwal’s Into the Weeds: Dewayne “Lee” Johnson Vs Monsanto Company which follows the lawsuit between an agro-chemical corporation and a former employee who believes the herbicide products gave him cancer.
Croatian director...
French director Judith Auffray’s 07:15 – Blackbird has won most notable international documentary film at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in the Czech Republic.
The 30-minute documentary follows a young girl and an old man who set off to identify an unknown bird. The film also won best cinematography.
A special mention was given to Canadian director Jennifer Baichwal’s Into the Weeds: Dewayne “Lee” Johnson Vs Monsanto Company which follows the lawsuit between an agro-chemical corporation and a former employee who believes the herbicide products gave him cancer.
Croatian director...
- 11/1/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The power of sound and the impacts of war dominated the 26th Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival awards, with French doc “07:15 – Blackbird” taking home both the main prize and the cinematography award.
The story of a young girl’s quest to identify the call of a mysterious bird, directed by Judith Auffray and filmed by Mario Valero, the 30-minute doc’s “fairy-tale poeticism,” balancing natural wonder and technology, won over the Opus Bonum jury. The jury said the film “draws us back to the mysteries of our existence.”
The closing gala, after the fest’s focus on war films and a strong presence of Ukrainian filmmakers and their work, paused to honor the fallen in Ukraine as a choir took the stage to sing a traditional hymn, “The Duckling Swims.”
Croatian doc “Deserters,” a study of letters from young Balkan war resistors by Damir Markovina, won the Central...
The story of a young girl’s quest to identify the call of a mysterious bird, directed by Judith Auffray and filmed by Mario Valero, the 30-minute doc’s “fairy-tale poeticism,” balancing natural wonder and technology, won over the Opus Bonum jury. The jury said the film “draws us back to the mysteries of our existence.”
The closing gala, after the fest’s focus on war films and a strong presence of Ukrainian filmmakers and their work, paused to honor the fallen in Ukraine as a choir took the stage to sing a traditional hymn, “The Duckling Swims.”
Croatian doc “Deserters,” a study of letters from young Balkan war resistors by Damir Markovina, won the Central...
- 10/29/2022
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival, which runs Oct. 25-30, has unveiled Opus Bonum, its international competition section. The 16-strong lineup includes eight world premieres.
Andrea Kleine’s “The End Is Not What I Thought It Would Be,” from the U.S., is set during the pandemic. Kleine, the author of novels “Calf” and “Eden,” is seen performing stand-up comedy, monologues and music in a theater without an audience.
Emily Allen’s U.S. film “Cisco Kid” features a young woman living in the middle of a vast desert in the American West, in the ruins of a town where the last of the oddball inhabitants struggle to survive.
Canada’s “Bloom” by Fanie Pelletier follows three groups of adolescent girlfriends from Quebec, who are going through tough changes in their lives as captured through the videos they post online.
Croatia’s “Deserters,” from director Damir Markovina, looks at the...
Andrea Kleine’s “The End Is Not What I Thought It Would Be,” from the U.S., is set during the pandemic. Kleine, the author of novels “Calf” and “Eden,” is seen performing stand-up comedy, monologues and music in a theater without an audience.
Emily Allen’s U.S. film “Cisco Kid” features a young woman living in the middle of a vast desert in the American West, in the ruins of a town where the last of the oddball inhabitants struggle to survive.
Canada’s “Bloom” by Fanie Pelletier follows three groups of adolescent girlfriends from Quebec, who are going through tough changes in their lives as captured through the videos they post online.
Croatia’s “Deserters,” from director Damir Markovina, looks at the...
- 10/14/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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