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JIHLAVA 2018

Ji.hlava unveils its full programme

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- The 22nd edition of Central Europe's most prominent documentary event will feature 327 films, including 100 world, 23 international and 17 European premieres

Ji.hlava unveils its full programme
Vacancy by Alexandra Kandy Longuet

The 22nd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (25-30 October) has announced its full programme. A total of 327 films will be shown across 11 competitions and 12 non-competitive sections, including no fewer than 100 world, 23 international and 17 European premieres. 

The festival's most prestigious competition, Opus Bonum, consists of 17 feature- and mid-length films, out of which 13 are European, including Vacancy [+see also:
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by Belgium's Alexandra Kandy LonguetWestern, Family and Communism [+see also:
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by France's Laurent KriefTalks with T.G. Masaryk [+see also:
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by Slovakia's Jakub ČervenkaUntil Porn Do Us Part [+see also:
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by Portugal's Jorge PelicanoBackstage Action [+see also:
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by Belgium's Sanaz Azari and the Peruvian-Portuguese co-production Expectant [+see also:
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by Farid Rodriguez Rivero. For the full list, click here.

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In Between the Seas, a competition for Central and Eastern European films, there are 15 titles, including the French-Indian-US co-production The End and the Means [+see also:
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by Polish-born Paweł WojtasikAlexander Belinski and Agne Dovydaityte's The Sun Sets in the East [+see also:
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(Lithuania), Tomáš Krupa's THE GOOD DEATH [+see also:
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(France/Czech Republic/Austria/Slovakia), Marek Kuboš's The Last Self-portrait [+see also:
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(Slovakia), Simon Mozgovyi's The Winter Garden's Tale [+see also:
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(Ukraine) and Lukas Marxt's Victoria (Austria). For the full list, click here.

In the First Light section, for debut feature-length films, among 11 titles, five are European: Isaac Stillwell's #3511 [+see also:
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(Poland/Germany/Belgium/France/Australia), the German-Czech co-production Boy of War [+see also:
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by Cyprien Clément-Delmas and Igor Kosenko, Felipe RugelesDouble Me [+see also:
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(Spain/Colombia), Anna Kryvenko's Slovak-Latvian-Czech co-production My Unknown Soldier [+see also:
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and Rebekka Kaufmann's We Own the Crisis (Germany/Greece). For the full list, click here.

Three sections established last year, A Testimony on Politics, on Nature, and on Knowledge, comprise the most significant documentaries dealing with these respective topics, and the vast majority, 18 titles, are European productions or co-productions. Among them are well-known films such as The Waldheim Waltz [+see also:
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Weapon of Choice [+see also:
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The Silence of Others [+see also:
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Almost Nothing
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and Becoming Animal [+see also:
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, but there will also be the world premieres of Rohan and Gorav Kalyan's Badiou [+see also:
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(France/USA), Sue-Alice Okukubo and Eduard Zorzenoni's Near and Elsewhere [+see also:
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, and Mats Bigert and Lars Bergström's The Climate Experiment [+see also:
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(Morocco/Norway/USA/France/China/Sweden). 

The full list of sections and films can be found here, and the Special Event sidebar looks set to present a selection of this year's greatest hits, featuring the new movies by Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Vitaly Mansky, Viktor Kossakovsky, Wim Wenders, Amos Gitai, Albert Serra and Emir Kusturica.

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