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Štětina Jaromír

Karabach Ten Years Later
A film about the Karabakh war conflict and its lasting impacts.

The Ways of Faith - A Journey to Isfahan
A documentary film about the 2003 earthquake in the East Iranian city of Bam, and the humanitarian aid organized by the Czech Catholic Charity.

Building Bridges to Lepers
Jaromír Štětina's documentary about leprosy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Afghanistan - Land of My Blood
A documentary film about post-9/11 Afghanistan. Two years ago Petra Procházková and Jaromír Štětina filmed - as apparently the only report of its kind in the world - an interview with the later murdered leader of the Afghan opposition Masúd. Then they used their established personal connection to get to the Taliban's frontline immediately after war broke out in Afghanistan and try to capture witness accounts of the war.

Women of My Life
The view of a thirteen-year-old boy on Afghan women and the war.

Ethiopia - Land of My Blood
A documentary film about Ethiopian Christians in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. In the story's bacground of Ethiopian runners we become acquainted with the Ethiopian orthodox church.

Josephine - The African Story
A documentary film about Africa - traditions, tribal wars, poverty, female cirumcision.

Georgia in Year One
An historical account of the conflicts between Russia and Georgia from 1801 to the present.

The Ways of Faith - Afghan Gospel
A documentary film about the friendship between a Muslim and a Christian.

Our Man in Bamian
The film explores Czech humanitarian activities in Afghanistan.

The Ways of Faith
In the backdrop of Persia, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan and Daghestan high in the mountains of the eastern Caucasus lies the Jewish enclave. We see the current life, customs and longing to return to Israel.

Jaromír Štětina (born April 6, 1943 in Prague[1]) is Czech journalist, writer and politician. He is most known as war correspondent from conflict areas of former Soviet Union. Štětina studied University of Economics, Prague (graduated in 1967). He started to work as journalist in newspaper Mladá Fronta but after Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 he was fired because of disagreement with the occupation and worked as geodetist. Later he started to study geology at Charles University in Prague and organized 25 geologic or sport tours to Siberia and Asia. Since 1989 he works in re-established newspaper Lidové noviny. In 1990 he moved as foreign correspondent in to Moscow from where he covered numerous conflicts in former Soviet Union. During 1993-94 he was editor-in-chief of Lidové noviny. In 1994, together with journalist Petra Procházková, founded independent journalist agency Epicentrum dedicated to war reporting. Štětina specialised on war conflicts in Europe, Asia and Africa and covered more than 20 of them. He published ten books, dozens of documentary movies and countless articles.

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