Legendary Czech director Helena Třeštíková (Forman vs. Forman, Mallory, Katka, René) will introduce her brand-new documentary Anny in the IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary. The film, produced by Kateřina Černá of Negativ, is a story of a mother of three grown up kids, who is divorced twice and works as a toilet attendant. Similar to her older works, Třeštíková uses time-laps technique to show that even the most ordinary life has its value, nobleness and dignity.

Vitaly Mansky (Putin's Witnesses, Under the Sun) finished his long-awaited Gorbachev. Heaven. A portrait of the last President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and a controversial hero will celebrate world premiere in the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary. Mansky's film is a co-operation between Latvian SIA Vertov and established Czech production company Hypermarket Film and it was granted EUR 58 000 by the Czech Film Fund in the call for minority co-productions (2018).

Nora Štrbová, who premiered her S P A C E S at this year's Visions du Réel, will introduce her short animated documentary also to the audience of IDFA's Best of Fests section. The FAMU student explores her brother, 23-year-old Simon Štrba, whose short-term memory has been completely destroyed and who thinks events that took place a year ago happened yesterday.

Czech films, and Helena Třeštíková's especially, regularly participate at the IDFA. Last year, Forman vs. Forman by Třeštíková (and her co-director Jakub Hejna) was screened in Masters, and in 2018 IDFA honored the auteur with the retrospective of her celebrated work.