Ji.hlava Kicks Off With Ukrainian Struggle Doc, Honors for Producer Ada Solomon

Hushed audiences witnessed footage of the primary Russian shells hitting cities in Ukraine on the opening night time of the Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Movie Pageant on Tuesday as frontline filmmaking was honored.

Oksana Moiseniuk’s “eighth Day of the Struggle” screened on the Czech metropolis’s venerable DKO cultural corridor after audiences heard from the Ukrainian director by way of video hyperlink from Kiev, which stays underneath shelling within the eighth month of the battle. The movie’s diary-like immediacy captures the outbreak of the Russian assaults by way of the eyes of Ukrainians within the Czech Republic as they attempt to keep it up with a semblance of normalcy, whereas their minds are consumed with the occasions happening again residence and so they attempt to assist any method they’ll.

Amid dimly lit tables within the decades-old theater constructing, Romanian producer Ada Solomon, a key movie determine in regional artwork movie behind “Dangerous Luck Banging or Loony Porn,” was awarded the world excellence award by the Czech Audiovisual Producers Assn.

Solomon, recalling the lengthy historical past of worldwide co-productions within the area, recommended the Czech Republic as some of the lively companions making such movies doable, saying such teamwork “speaks to what a united Europe means.”

The APA award yearly acknowledges an excellent contribution to movie manufacturing, going this yr to the producer of greater than 60 titles together with “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in Historical past As Barbarians” by Radu Jude, winner of the Karlovy Fluctuate fest Crystal Globe in 2018, 2015 Berlin Silver Bear winner “Aferim!” and 2013 Golden Bear winner “Youngster’s Pose” by Calin Netzer.

She has labored with celebrated Romanian filmmakers together with Cristian Nemescu, Ivana Mladenovic, Alexandru Solomon and Răzvan Rădulescu, and was govt producer for Maren Ade’s “Toni Erdmann,” amongst different credit.

The Ji.hlava fest viewers prize for finest brief movie within the Quick Pleasure part, chosen by on-line viewers on the platform DAFilms.com, honored “Blue Mattress,” an intimate perception into the connection of a loving couple, by Belgian director Lize Cuveele.

The Ji.hlava fest, the most important occasion of its variety in Central and Jap Europe, runs by way of Oct. 30, with practically 400 titles screening and a few 97 world premieres.