09 October 2017
Three new Czech documenatries have been selected for International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), which takes place November 15 - 26, 2017. Nothing Like Before by Lukáš Kokeš and Klára Tasovská will have its world premiere in the Competition for First Appearance, Petr Horký's directorial debut The Russian Job has been selected for the Competition for Mid-Length Documentary and Vít Klusák's The White World According to Daliborek will be screened in the Masters section.
Nothing Like Before by Lukáš Kokeš and Klára Tasovská, selected for the Competition for First Appearance, is a stylized documentary view into the life of present day teenagers living on Czech-German border – a geographic and social periphery in the middle of Europe. It portrays daily lives of 3 youngsters, students at one particular high school, and witnesses their transformation into mature individuals. It is the second documentary film of the creative duo after Fortress (CZ, 2012), which received the nomination for Lux Prize and also won the Czech Joy competition at Jihlava IDFF. The film was produced by nutprodukce in co-production with HBO Europe.
The fate of a languishing Russian car factory, tagged to be brought back to life under new Swedish management, is the topic of The Russian Job, journalist Petr Horký’s cinematic debut selected for the Competition for Mid-Length Documentary. He came across the subject by chance when he was sent to the Avtovaz car factory, which produces the famous Lada cars, to write a report for a business publication.The film was produced by Krutart in co-production with Czech Television.
Read more about the two documentaries in the article published in the CZECH FILM magazine (Fall 2017) here.
Finally, in the Masters section will be screened Vít Klusák's latest documentary The White World According to Daliborek. The controversial portrait of a radical neo-Nazi Dalibor K. premiered in the Documentary Competition of this year's Karlovy Vary IFF and the screening at IDFA will be its first international presentation. The film was produced by Hypermarket Film in co-production with Czech Television, Peter Kerekes (SK) and BRITDOC Foundation (UK).
All three films have been supported in the various stages of development and production by the Czech Film Fund.
Dalibor K. lives in Prostějov, a small town in Moravia, has a job painting gardening machinery, makes amateur horror movies and writes angry songs. He is a radical neo-Nazi, although he has never physically assaulted anyone.…
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