Unveiling the programme of the 30th Ji.hlava IDFF
The anniversary edition of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival kicks off in two weeks, and we have unveiled our line-up!
The festival’s 30th edition will showcase 350 films across its competitive and non-competitive sections. Alongside the latest films from the Czech Republic and abroad, the programme includes the unique Films That Changed the World section and a retrospective of Vietnamese-American filmmaker and theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha. You can browse the films here, the day-by-day programme will be released next week.
The first Ji.hlava films are already available to watch: the Short Joy competition is now available free of charge on DAFilms.com, and audiences can vote for the winner.
You can find the most recent Ji.hlava programme news in the press release.
All the best from the Ji.hlava IDFF team!
350 FILMS, COUNTLESS PERSPECTIVES
The festival’s 30th edition will showcase 350 films across its competitive and non-competitive sections, including 106 world premieres, 28 international premieres and 8 European premieres. The Opus Bonum competition will present the best of world documentary cinema, while the First Lights competition will showcase the most remarkable documentary debuts. The best experimental films will be featured in the international Fascinations and Czech Exprmntl.cz competitions. Discover new Czech documentaries in the Czech Joy competition, and the Testimonies competition featuring 15 powerful films. Check out all the sections here.
Photo still: A Song Without Home (dir. Rati Tsiteladze)
BIG TALKS AT THE INSPIRATION FORUM
The Inspiration Forum, Ji.hlava’s discussion platform, has confirmed another special guest. Lea Ypi, one of today’s most prominent political philosophers and the author of the international bestseller Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, which has been published in more than thirty languages, will join Ji.hlava’s Inspiration Forum. Her appearance is part of the new Big Talks series, in which the festival will present “big names in a big venue” – and, for the first time, open these events to visitors without festival accreditation. Tickets for Lea Ypi’s talk, as well as other events in the new Big Talks series, are already on sale. This is the line-up of the Big Talks:
October 24 – Lea Ypi: What Is Europe For Today?
October 25 – Matt Winning: What Can Humour Do in a Crisis?
October 30 – Camila Vergara and Samuel Bagg: How Can We Curb the Power of Oligarchs?
October 31 – David Wengrow: The Dawn of Change
