Ji.hlava IDFF returns 24 Oct–Nov 2 for its 29th edition, ten days and 300+ films spanning premieres, radical experiments, and sharp retrospectives. Alongside the Inspiration Forum and Industry Days (28–31 Oct), this year’s Conference on Ethics in Documentary Filmmaking zeroes in on AI: creative control, authorship, and responsibility, with academic and industry panels on Thursday, 30 Oct.
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Films
Better Go Mad in the Wild
Director: Miro Remo
Rural twin brothers resisting modern life, where imagination, memory, and rebellion shape a fading yet vivid freedom.
Child of Dust
Director: Weronika Mliczewska
Born of war and raised in hardship, a man’s search for his father becomes a reflection on identity, healing, and generational trauma.
Coexistence, My Ass!
Director: Amber Fares
Noam Shuster Eliassi’s path from UN hopeful to fearless comedian, testing taboos and hope between Jews and Palestinians in Israel.
Fiume o Morte!
Director: Igor Bezinović
A crowd-sourced, carnivalesque reconstruction of Rijeka 1919–20, Rijeka or Death! dismantles D’Annunzio’s cult and exposes the roots and afterlives of fascism.
Flophouse America
Director: Monica Strømdahl
Inside one motel room an intimate portrait of American poverty unfolds.
I Shall Not Hate
Director: Tal Barda
A Palestinian doctor’s heartbreaking loss fuels his mission for peace, emphasizing the need for compassion and unity in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Director: David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin
How a small-town teaching assistant became an unlikely whistleblower on the grim reality of wartime propaganda.
Orwell: 2+2=5
Director: Raoul Peck
Our current reality, as summarised by George Orwell.
Resilience
Director: Tomas Elsik
The rhythms of nature meet the harshness of human industry, painting an urgent, visually poetic portrait of Central Europe’s endangered ecosystems.
Riefenstahl
Director: Andres Veiel
Leni Riefenstahl shaped a controversial legacy, prompting reflection on whether her work’s fascist ideals still resonate in contemporary culture.
The Tree of Authenticity
Director: Sammy Baloji
Through evocative imagery and sound, The Tree of Authenticity challenges colonial legacies in the Congo Basin, giving the forest agency beyond human-dominated histories.
Time to the Target
Director: Vitaly Mansky
Lviv, a city caught between everyday life and an unending funeral procession during war.
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