Jana Ševčíková

Czech Republic

Jana Ševčíková

director, producer, script writer

Those Who Dance in the Dark

Those Who Dance in the Dark

Blindness has within itself a thousand hues, for us sighted people just the one.
Lean a Ladder Against Heaven

Lean a Ladder Against Heaven

The film was shot over a period of five years at the parish in a small village in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia. The local priest Marian Kuffa takes care of nearly 250 people. With them he talks on daily basis and…
Gyumri

Gyumri

On 7 December 1988, thousands of people died in the Armenian city of Gyumri under an earthquake. More than one third of them were children. Bereaved parents responded by giving newly born babies names after their…
The Rite of Spring

The Rite of Spring

This film came into being on a farm in the village of Hakushu, Min Tanaka's home. Min Tanaka is a very distinctive personality of Japanese alternative theatre in which the mind questions the tongue and so the body…
The Old Believers

The Old Believers

This film, made over a period of five years, documents the life of strongly religious people living in the Danube Delta region of Romania. We learn the story of their journey from Russia in 17th century, bringing their…
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