REMEMBERING SUDAN With the Sunday mati­nee panel, we want to deepen this series on the sit­u­a­tion in Sudan. Our guest is Aya El Sam­mani, who fled from Khar­toum to Berlin … read more

As Indone­sia is moving its new cap­i­tal from Jakar­ta to Nusan­tara (also known as IKN), a brand-new city near the forests in Borneo, a Chi­nese-born anthro­pol­o­gy stu­dent inves­ti­gates super­nat­ur­al sto­ries … read more

Three women unearth and reflect on their mem­o­ries of wit­ness­ing and sup­port­ing the Burn­sall Strike, a 1992 work­ers’ resis­tance move­ment that Pun­jabi women led in Smeth­wick, Birm­ing­ham. From within their … read more

On the south­east coast of Eng­land, the unsta­ble nature of the coast­line seems to give rise to mys­ti­cal more-than-human encoun­ters. Set over the course of a single tidal cycle—from low … read more

Is it pos­si­ble to find a solu­tion to save the planet? A father, Jiří - a Czech physi­cist and vision­ary handy­man - and his daugh­ter have taken it upon them­selves to present his pro­posed plan to save the planet in var­i­ous places, though they con­tin­u­al­ly encounter dead ends as no one will listen to him.

What sets this film apart from other sim­i­lar movies about envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion is the direc­tor’s approach and her avoid­ance of clichés. The film­mak­er does not express her protest against envi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions in an angry or man­i­festo-like manner but instead play­ful­ly deliv­ers it with music and lyrics.

On anoth­er level, we wit­ness the warm rela­tion­ship between the father and daugh­ter, whose deter­mi­na­tion toward their goal remains unwa­ver­ing, even though they are often ignored. But what truly mat­ters is that they believe in their jour­ney. Their duet, singing togeth­er in the final scene, lingers in the mind.

Marta Kovářová, grad­u­at­ed from the Fac­ul­ty of Fine Arts of the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty and Applied Physics at the Fac­ul­ty of Sci­ence at the Masaryk Uni­ver­si­ty in Brno. She com­plet­ed study intern­ships at the Acad­e­my of Arts in Reyk­javík and at FAMU in Prague. Since 2013, she has been work­ing as an assis­tant pro­fes­sor at the Depart­ment of Art Edu­ca­tion at Masaryk Uni­ver­si­ty. She is a found­ing and still active member of the band Budoár staré dámy, for which she com­pos­es music, writes lyrics, sings and plays guitar.

Noth­ing shocked the polit­i­cal left in the 1960s as much as the brutal murder of Con­golese Prime Min­is­ter Patrice Lumum­ba. He was the sym­bol­ic figure for the lib­er­a­tion of the … read more