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PRESS RELEASE
Prague, September 24, 2015
SURREALISM / LIVING LEGEND / PREPARATION FOR UFO / CZECH
FUNERAL / STEVE JOBS / OUT OF NORWAY, MIGRANTS /
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EXPERIMENTAL FILM / JULIAN
ASSANGE AND PUSSY RIOT / RADIODOCUMENTARY / SHAMPOO BOY
The 19th Jihlava IDFF 2013 reveals the highlights of its festival programme. Each
visitor will have the opportunity to meet the documentary film legend, Artavazd
Peleshyan, whose contribution to the art of film montage is almost as crucial as that of
the film editing pioneer, Sergei Eisenstein. Peleshyan will arrive to Prague several days
before the festival where he will be, by prior appointment, available for interviews.
For the first time in history, the Czech audience will have the rare opportunity to see a
retrospective of French filmmaker and avant-gardist Eugene Deslaw, whose
masterful work with film footage and images raises the following question: “How come
that I haven’t heard of him yet?” The answer is simple – because it took us almost a
year of investigating twenty film archives all across Europe to find his films. Unlike
audiences in many other countries, Czech festival visitors will now enjoy the great
privilege to watch a collection of Deslaw’s films.
Similar difficulties also occur during the search for exceptional experimental films and
we have therefore decided to organise the first edition of the unique Conference
Fascinations that brings together Czech experimental filmmakers with the leading
international distributors of this film genre within the very framework of this year’s
Jihlava IDFF.
This year’s edition of the festival again opens up a space for discussing topical issues.
Since we are well aware of the world’s burning issues, our film selection features titles
that will help the audience see the refugee crisis from different perspectives – for
example, a video diary of Emanuel, an immigrant who returns back to his native Africa,
and more film highlights are on the way. Our efforts are also supported by Czech Radio
– in the form of their Radiodocumentary series that captures the atmosphere, for
example, at the Greek-Macedonian border.
A Danish documentary will take us even further beyond our everyday reality – offering
possible scenarios of what would happen if aliens decided to pay us a visit. On top of
that, the Special Events section will feature a documentary portrait of one of the greatest
figures of our time – Steve Jobs, taking an often critical look at the achievements of the
founder of Apple.
This year’s programme highlights will include a section focusing on surrealism,
spotlighting names such as Švankmajer and Hackenschmied and exploring the
relationship between avant-garde surrealism and documentary filmmaking. Aside from
that, we have prepared a series documenting funerals of prominent Czech thinkers
through the lens of a TV camera - section referring to this year's festival theme, which is
"Eternity".
Exclusively this year, festival visitors will have a unique opportunity to talk directly to
the prominent and, in the eyes of many, controversial figures – Julian Assange, the
founder of WikiLeaks and Masha Alyokhina, member of Pussy Riot.
The accompanying music programme will offer Soundwalks with Eliška Cílková, and
the Czech premiere of the Viennese trio Shampoo Boy – with complimentary ear
plugs.
The 19th edition of Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, the largest event
of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe, takes place in Jihlava, Czech Republic
between October 27 - November 1, 2015.
For more information please contact:
René Kubášek
international communication
19TH JIHLAVA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
October 27- November 1, 2015
Jihlava, Czech Republic
M: +420 778 058 273
E: [email protected]
www.dokument-festival.com
PARTNERS and SPONSORS
Festival is supported by:
Ministerstvo kultury ČR
Státní fond kinematografie
Statutární město Jihlava
Creative Europe MEDIA
Kraj Vysočina
ROP Jihovýchod
Zastoupení Evropské komise v České republice
Velvyslanectví Nizozemského království
Rakouské kulturní fórum v Praze
Francouzský institut v Praze
Polský institut v Praze
Velvyslanectví Státu Izrael
Maďarský kulturní institut v Praze
Slovenský institut v Praze
DOC.STREAM supported by:
Fond EHP
Fond Partnerství Programu švýcarsko-české
spolupráce
Partners of Industry section:
Asociace producentů v audiovizi
Central European Initiative
Česká centra
HBO Europe
Kancelář Kreativní Evropa - MEDIA v České
republice
FAMU/MIDPOINT: Centrum středoevropské
scenáristické tvorby
Main media partners:
Český rozhlas
Lidové noviny
Respekt
Festival official car:
Hyundai AC ROZKOŠ
Festival official courrier:
TNT
Partner:
Automotive Lighting
Regional partners:
Ammeraal Beltech
Chesterton
Dafe Plast
Gold Crystal
Javab
Kronospan
MG - REAL
Mokov
PSJ
Sepos
YASHICA
Official suppliers:
Ackee
AZ Translations
Base Gang
Rodinný pivovar Bernard
Dřevovýroba Podzimek
Co-organisers of Emerging Producers:
elektro-bicykl.cz
Kanceláře Kreativní Evropa – MEDIA v České Eventival
republice – Danish Film Institute, Calouste
Exit112
Gulbenkian Foundation, The Romanian
Fine Coffee
Cultural Institute
Gopas
Chateau Herálec
Co-organiser of Industry section:
ICOM transport
Institut dokumentárního filmu
Jabba design
Krahulík - Masozávod Krahulčí
Partner project:
Mitech
Doc Alliance Films
M-soft
Tonera
General media partner:
Xanadu Catering
Česká televize
Security services supplier:
Top Security, sesterská společnost Nokika
IT services supplier:
Abuco ICT
Media partners:
A2
A2larm
Art & Antique
Cinema
Cinepur
Deník Referendum
Film a doba
His Voice
Host
Iluminace
Literární noviny
Nový Prostor
Plakát s.r.o.
Rádio 1
Revolver Revue
Xantypa
Regional media partners:
Jihlavské listy
Jihlavský deník
Hitradio Vysočina
SNIP & CO
Foreign media partners:
Cineuropa
Film New Europe
Kinečko
kinema.sk
Kino Ikon
Media cooperation:
25 fps
7.G
ArtMap.cz
Dějiny a současnost
festivalguide.cz
H_aluze
jihlava-city.cz
kult.
kulturissimo
protisedi.cz
Rozrazil
tvar
UNI
Other collaborators:
FAMU
Město Třešť
Nakladatelství AMU
Národní filmový archiv
Oblastní galerie Vysočiny v Jihlavě
Vysoká škola polytechnická Jihlava