30. Mezinárodní festival dokumentárních filmů Ji.hlava

23. 10.–1. 11. 2026
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6TM

6TM

One scorching summer at the Cité Modèle, Brussels' largest housing estate, three stories unfold across one family. Two kids chase a magic lamp to keep their wheelchair-using friend from being forced out by broken elevators. A teenage girl builds a team of misfits for a football tournament. A mother rallies her neighbours to uncover who stole the rain. 6TM is a Belgian family comedy in three chapters, rooted in magic realism and the resilience of a community.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Karim Akalay
Producer: Walid Bekhti
Country: Belgium
Európu obchádza strašidlo

A Spectre is Haunting Europe

A socio-political travelogue explores Europe through contemporary crises, historical memory, and political myths known as “European identity.” It examines the tension between ideals of equality and lived realities of exclusion. Moving non-linearly and rhizomatically across places, voices, and situations - from Warsaw to Normandy, Tbilisi, and Lesbos - it portrays a continent in transformation. In this unstable moment, it asks what still shapes Europe today and whether political imagination is still possible, or if we are already at the end of history.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Robo Mihály
Producer: Anna Mach Rumanová
Country: Slovakia, Czech Rep.
Alternative Utopia

Alternative Utopia

Miguel drifts in technological comfort, a passive subject of modernity convinced of the system's stability. As the airplane—the Earth itself—fails, the window reveals the suppressed reality: the planet dissolving into ecological firestorms. The fuselage cracks. Impact occurs, but destruction is replaced by a violent suspension of time: Benjamin’s Jetztzeit. In this rupture, Žižek and Löwy emerge, reframing the crash not as an accident, but as the inevitable “storm of progress.” In the stasis, one question remains: can we interrupt the trajectory of collapse before the fall resumes?
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Seungjae OH
Producer: Seunghee OH
Country: South Korea, France, Slovenia
Les Mémoires Sans Archives, Pour Un Musée Imaginaire

Archiveless Memories, for an Imaginary Museum

What if a war never ends ? What if it only waits for another name? In 2025–2026, war returns to Iran. A film begun eight years ago, looking into the unresolved memory of the Iran–Iraq War, is suddenly pulled into the present. The distance between then and now collapses. Nawal, living between France and Iran, has travelled for years with filmmaker Ali—through family landscapes, forgotten places, encounters with those who remember. They were looking for traces of a war. Now the traces are alive again. Memory is no longer behind us. The past enters the present. A war returns—not as history, but as something still unfinished.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Ali Razi
Producer: Eliott Baillon, Isabel Machado
Country: France, Portugal, Iran
Being in You

Being in You

“Being in You” is an XR documentary about Cat Janice, an artist and geologist who died in 2024. The project not only tells her story but allows her to “return” as a generative presence. Instead of the viewer identifying with her, she experiences the world through the viewer. Built from recordings, memories, and archives, her digital ghost becomes a modern ritual of remembrance. It explores whether we can exist after death - in memory, emotion, and technology.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Michał Stankiewicz
Producer: Martyna Nitkowska, Michał Stankiewicz
Country: Poland
Katalog

Catalogue

A struggling filmmaker is running out of money, time and usable footage for his documentary about women sold into marriage from Albania in Montenegro. Convinced that the only way to tell the story is from the inside, he buys a bride himself and films the process. As his project gains support from funders and NGOs, the line between observation and exploitation disappears, forcing him to confront his own role in the system he claims to criticize.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Andrija Mugoša
Producer: Jasmina Karajlović
Country: Montenegro
Daughters of the Pit

Daughters of the Pit

Set on Japan’s remote Ishigaki Island in Okinawa, Daughters of the Pit follows Kaori Uechi, Japan’s first female bullfighting union leader, as she fights to protect her place in the male-dominated world of tōgyū, a centuries-old form of bullfighting. Facing pressure from rival ranchers and union elders to step down, Kaori mentors sisters Hinata (12) and Haruno (8), who raise and train their own bulls despite traditions that exclude girls from the ring. Together, they challenge gender norms and reshape the future of this deeply rooted culture.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Anshul Chauhan
Producer: Hyoe Yamamoto, Mina Moteki
Country: Japan
Casa feta de boira

House made of mist

Alberto (29) films his father and two aunts as they empty the family home in Calatayud before selling it. Among the belongings, they find a box of poems in Catalan written by his great-grandparents after the death of Maria Rosa, his grandmother Marta’s sister, killed in the fascist bombing of Lleida in 1937. The discovery leads the family to recover a silenced past. At the same time, Alberto tries to speak with his late grandmother and come out to her. Their journey to Lleida turns private grief into a political act, and into a reflection on memory, archives, and identity.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Alberto Dexeus
Producer: Montse Pujol
Country: Spain
Биківня. Під червоним прапором

If Only the Pines Could Speak

A hybrid archival film about the Bykivnia mass graves near Kyiv, uncovered in the 1960s by three Ukrainian artists. Their attempt to reveal the truth about Stalinist crimes was silenced. Decades later, exhumations remain incomplete, and thousands of victims unnamed. Through archives and animation, the film will focus on the exploration of the persistence of political fear, and how silence fuels the cycle of violence. It will question the responsibility and politics of memory on the example of a nearly 100 year-old history.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Yelyzaveta Myshkalenko
Producer: Diana Nazaruk
Country: Ukraine
Il Genio

Il Genio

IL GENIO is a creative feature-length documentary that explores the life and career of Dejan Savicevic, one of football’s most gifted and unconventional players, as a prism through which broader political, cultural, and economic transformations of Europe are examined. The film traces his rise from Yugoslav football to Silvio Berlusconi’s AC Milan, a transition that coincided with the violent collapse of a country and the transformation of football into a globalized industry.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Ivan Marinovic
Producer: Miljan Vučelić, Ivan Marinović
Country: Montenegro, Italy
Impossible To Ignore

Impossible To Ignore

Richard Saul Wurman is one of the most influential yet lesser known minds of our time. Brilliant, opinionated and allergic to bullshit, he has spent his life challenging norms and reshaping culture. With exclusive access to his vast archives and interviews with icons, Impossible To Ignore reveals a complex man whose ideas feel urgent in the age of AI. At 91, Richard is still restless, still reinventing himself. His relentless curiosity, outsized ego and audacity fueled groundbreaking ideas that changed how millions understand the world. The world knows his work. It's time to meet the man.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Simantini Chakraborty
Producer: Jon Ornoy, Ana Carrizales, Simantini Chakraborty
Country: United States, Canada
Iridescence

Iridescence

Through the archive of pioneering ophthalmologist Benedetto Strampelli, a mysterious gaze travels across India, Africa and the Amazon, observing people and landscapes while documenting his radical attempts to restore sight. As his images encounter artificial intelligence, dreams, blindness and radically different ways of knowing, the film questions the authority of the image itself. What does it mean to see and what might remain invisible when we believe we can see? A cinematic journey through archives, memory and technology, searching for another way of looking.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Dominika Kováčová, Kilhan Wittock
Producer: Matej Sotník, Klára Tasovská
Country: Slovakia, Belgium, Italy
Ovdje još raste

It Still Grows Here

It Still Grows Here follows the gardens between the Fond housing blocks and Plečnik Stadium in Ljubljana, a small piece of land that has survived for decades amid housing, a closed stadium and development plans. Through the daily rituals of people who plant, water, repair, teach and preserve its archive, the film portrays a community protecting a living space from oblivion, noise and potential erasure. Combining observation, archive and sound, it explores the right to the city, belonging and shared memory.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Aleksa Bujisic
Producer: Milan Radulovic
Country: Montenegro, Slovenia
Male Fantasies

Male Fantasies

Male Fantasies explores the virtual and spiritual worlds of men in Northern Michigan––a deeply conservative region where conspiracy, religion, and ritual merge, revealing a haunted portrait of American masculinity and mythology. Combining police bodycam footage with intimate testimonies and visual investigations, the film evokes the structures of violence in a fractured political landscape.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Max Bowens
Producer: Ryan Krivoshey, Sam Hewison
Country: United States
Spomenik revolucije

Monument of revolution

The Monument of Revolution built in 1982 on the highest peak of Petrova Gora, is the most imposing of Vojin Bakić’s memorial projects and one of the most significant modernist monuments in Europe. Since Croatian independence, it has been severely damaged by both natural forces and human neglect. While Čedomir Studen, its caretaker, continuously repairs the site, intruders and scrap collectors strip away its material remains. Different groups attempt to define its purpose and ownership, as the monument, abandoned to time, continues to attract attention throgh its physical and symbolic decay.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Mladen Ivanovic
Producer: Tamara Puizina
Country: Montenegro, Croatia
Mythos

Mythos

In an age where everyone speaks but few truly listen, Mythos follows exiled filmmaker Artur Aristakisian on his journey from Russia into European exile — a passage that mirrors the search for a voice. As he gives voice to the unseen and unheard, he searches for a forgotten language of empathy and presence. Blending documentary, essayistic, and staged elements into a meditative cinematic structure, the film unfolds in the fragile space between silence, image, and sound.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Ondřej Vavrečka
Producer: Tereza Rozálie Koldová
Country: Czech Rep., Moldova
Nerva 3177

Nerva 3177

Nerva is a peaceful village in Andalusia, located on the banks of the Río Tinto, whose environment and daily life are profoundly altered by the installation of a landfill just a few meters from people’s homes. The town becomes divided between supporters of the landfill and opponents who organize resistance and protest. Years of demonstrations follow, especially when a ship departing from the port of Bijela in Montenegro arrives after traveling 3,177 kms carrying toxic waste…
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Matías Boero Lutz
Producer: Sylvie Leray, Blagota Marunović
Country: Spain, Montenegro
Planet A

Planet A

The Doomsday Glacier's ice shelf is fracturing. A team of scientists, including Naomi, who found solace in nature during a troubled childhood, arrives amid a massive storm to map the collapse they know is coming. Three strands interweave: observational footage of the team drilling cores, deploying radar, and racing to build a monitoring station; Naomi's journals, tracing the emotional cost of expertise that challenges hope; and The Ice itself, voiced in fractured poetry spanning geologic time. The scientists depart knowing no one will return. The Ice melts on, flooding once familiar landscapes.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Emelie Mahdavian
Producer: Charlotte Hailstone
Country: United Kingdom
Playtopia

Playtopia

Eight children from different parts of the world enter an endless white space, where they encounter an unfamiliar machine called Playtopia. Playtopia asks them to show it how humans live. Left largely to themselves, they build cities, negotiate rules, argue, play and drift into conversations about home, money, nature, technology, and death. Playtopia observes them, searching for patterns and meaning, while fragments of the children's self-recorded lives reveal a world far less easily understood. The more Playtopia learns, the more human life seems to exceed what can be observed, measured or explained.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Bara Jichova Tyson
Producer: Alice Tabery, Kristina Husová
Country: Czech Rep., Romania, Macedonia, United States
Rip Current

Rip Current

In New York and Florida, a builder explores landscapes of fabricated history as created by early American writer Washington Irving.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Brent Chesanek
Producer: Brent Chesanek
Country: United States
Searching for SmarterChild

Searching for SmarterChild

If you were online in 2003, you probably knew SmarterChild. Long before ChatGPT, he was a novelty: a chatbot who was always online. He became a sounding board for a generation, we confided in him, insulted him, and propositioned him. Twenty years later, as AI becomes deeply embedded in our lives, what does our treatment of the first internet chatbot say about us? By revisiting our cringe-worthy conversations, we explore the darkest parts of human nature, accountability, and what it takes to change, not only the technologies we create, but ourselves.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Lindsey Sitz, Zan Gillies
Producer: Erin Williams-Weir
Country: United States, Canada
Sentinels

Sentinels

In 2015, in the Peruvian Andes, Saúl Luciano Lliuya lives in close connection to the glaciers that sustain his community, now rapidly melting and threatening a deadly flood. Determined to act, he brings a landmark case against German energy company RWE, one of Europe's largest carbon emitters. Filmed over a decade, SENTINELS weaves his legal struggle with intimate family life and his daughter Gleyssi’s growth. The film reflects on climate justice, cultural identity, while asking what it truly means to be a hero in an era of climate crisis.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Julia Klein
Producer: Davina Pardo, Claudia Chávez
Country: United States
She Wrestles

She Wrestles

SHE WRESTLES is a portrait of a movement, interweaving multiple character arcs with a chorus drawn from 100+ audio interviews. This vocal chorus represents patterns of shared experience while granting anonymity to wrestlers with sensitive stories, including undocumented and transgender wrestlers. Unforgettable figures emerge: a Native pioneer of girls' wrestling, the daughter of an incarcerated father, Syrian refugee twins, an asylum-seeker who finds meaning through wrestling. Together, they show how this cultural change is transformative for young women, and a microcosm of the greater world.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Charles Fairbanks
Producer: Lucila Moctezuma
Country: United States
Trinaesta riba

The 13th Fish

The 13th Fish is a creative documentary exploring the lives of daughters-in-law in Montenegrin society. In a culture where sons bring status and daughters are seen as “a stranger’s supper,” women move through roles whose value shifts with tradition. Through anonymous testimonies and black-and-white imagery, the film reveals voices that speak yet fear being seen. Blending art and sociology, it examines patriarchy’s lasting influence and is the first Montenegrin film to address this subject directly.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Sara Stijovic
Producer: Sara Stijovic, Marija Vlahovic
Country: Montenegro
Al Bayt

The House

Laura returns to Egypt after her mother’s death to sell a decaying family plantation. Isolated from the surrounding village, the estate becomes a space where memory, privilege, and estrangement collide. As friends briefly revive it, buried histories of her mother and grandmother and exploited labor surface. When demolition begins, past and present intertwine, forcing Laura to confront her inheritance and identity before returning to Berlin, carrying its unresolved weight.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Laura Amna Stauth, Francesca Bertin
Producer: Julia Cöllen
Country: Egypt, Germany
We Did Not Consent

We Did Not Consent

When Jess discovers that her first boyfriend Andy Davey was actually undercover cop Andy Coles, she is forced to confront a devastating truth—she was targeted as part of a state-sanctioned operation to infiltrate activist movements. As she goes public, she learns she is one of at least 60 women deceived by officers who used intimacy as a weapon. We Did Not Consent combines documentary and theatrical storytelling to bring us closer to the women as they revisit their pasts and expose the systemic abuse that sought to silence them.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Dorothy Allen-Pickard
Producer: Sorcha Bacon, Jules Kirby
Country: United Kingdom
We Have the Keys

We Have the Keys

EKTON has the key to anywhere. He leads a secret community climbing cathedrals, surfing freight trains, and partying inside Disneyworld after dark. #Freedomisnotacrime is their creed. No vandalism. Just stolen access. But is this true freedom or life-threatening madness? We follow the masked Gangsta Claus through Europe's forbidden zones – unsecured steeples, abandoned power plants, and locked amusement parks. Exclusive access to a hidden world. The question: dream or death wish?
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Timo Novotny
Producer: Sebastian Rieker
Country: Austria, Czech Rep., Germany, France
Próby

Words We Never Say

A filmmaker reconnects with her estranged mother whose radical right-wing beliefs drove them apart. As the mother’s eyesight deteriorates, threatening with blindness, they embark on a journey across Europe and the U.S., visiting places and events that shaped their opposing worldviews—from religious gatherings and neo-nazi rallies to feminist protests and the refugee crisis. Through real encounters and staged scenes, they confront political and personal divides, exploring conflict, empathy, and the possibility of understanding before it’s too late.
Ji.hlava New Visions Forum
Director: Agnieszka Zwiefka
Producer: Agnieszka Zwiefka, Iza Igel
Country: Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Spain

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