Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
October 24 - 29, 2008
Screenings:
Sunday, October 26, 2008, 20:00 / Section Czech Joy / Sokol Cinema
CZECH RAPUBLIC (Česká RAPublika)
Czech Republic 2008, 93 min
Director: Pavel Abrahám
Producer: Martin Pošta - FRESH FILMS s.r.o.
Script: Pavel Abrahám, Tomáš Bojar
Director of photography: Vladan Vála
Editing: Šimon Špidla
Sound: Lukáš Moudrý
Music: PSH, Indy & Wich, Supercroo
Format: 35 mm
Czech RAPublic is the first feature film dedicated to Czech rap. James Cole, Hugo Toxxx and Orion on the stage, but primarily off it. Three prominent Czech rappers, ten pieces, ten lively - and even enlivening - film situations. Introducing a garrulous professor of linguistics, cheeky children from a Roma ghetto in Karviná, a curious photographer, a strict registry clerk, accidental passers-by of Prague or the "almighty" Hana Hegerová; further more the members of a classic music trio, basic school students from the Prague South City, representatives of the association Word and Voice and even the saviour of the Czech language, Josef Jungmann himself. Hip hop on the way from its narrow subcultural ghetto to the world. Citizens of the Czech RAPublic and the Czech Republic come together for a common "freestyle".
The project attended the 2006 Ex Oriente Film workshop.
Related Articles:
I PACK MY STUFF IN A SNAP, MY SOCKS, MY BRIEFS, MY RAP - Interview with Pavel Abrahám and Tomáš Bojar (2006)
Screenings:
Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 14:00 / Section Between the Seas / Sokol Cinema
KITES (Latawce)
Poland 2008, 79 min
Director: Beata Dzianowicz
Producer: Krzysztof Kopczyński - Eureka Media
Script: Beata Dzianowicz
Director of photography: Jacek Petrycki
Sound: Jaroslaw Roszyk
Music: Arturs Maskats
Format: Digibeta PAL
In 2006, at the Art School in Kabul, a film course "Kabul - My City" was held. Students were given cameras and professional help from a young polish director by the name of Jacek Szaranski. The students came up with the ideas for their films and the style in which they would show Kabul. They focused their lenses on their closest surroundings - neighbors' children, ubiquitous kites and themselves. "Kites" has become a record of the present day Kabul from the perspective of an Afghan teenager. It also became a story about how a film passion is awakened, the difficulty of asking questions and the courage of hearing answers.
Under the working title Learning to Watch, the project attended the 2004 Ex Oriente Film workshop.
To find out more about these and other films presented at EEF/ExOr Film, please visit our Pitching Results section.