Vít Janeček

Czech Republic

Vít Janeček

director, director of photography, editor, script writer, producer

Common sense

Common sense

Originally, this film – which made waves in Czech society – was supposed to be about Czech agriculture and about the factors that have the greatest impact on it. But one of the most important factors turned out to be…
Difficult Choice

Difficult Choice

Would you also like to go to the polls with feeling that something is changing?
Ivetka and the Mountain

Ivetka and the Mountain

One day in the summer of 1990, two ten-year-old girls were playing in a clearing on Mount Zvir near the East Slovak village of Litmanová. Suddenly they heard strange and frightening noises. Overcome by fear and anxiety,…
1+1+1

1+1+1

We want to progress forward. But where to go?
Olympic Halftime

Olympic Halftime

What impact do the Olympic Games have on their host cities?
Housing Against Everyone

Housing Against Everyone

Forget housing for everyone. Europe, 21st century.
At Full Throttle

At Full Throttle

The intimate story of a couple, in which they uncover their demons and reveal to us complicated paths that have led them from their personal inferno. This story is about new beginnings and dealing with our own mistakes.
The State Capture

The State Capture

After the murders of the journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová, the shooting of the documentary about a new kind of social establishment in which the traditional state structures become replaced with…
University and Freedom

University and Freedom

The University – Idea and its lives in the times when education becomes commodity.
The Besiege of the City

The Besiege of the City

Time-lapse documentary exploring drama of two perspectives: to renew gold mining in a close neighbourhood of the ancient city or to sustain quiet beautiful place for living...
The Grey Lizard Conspiracy

The Grey Lizard Conspiracy

The world is overwhelemed by wars, global warming, religious intolerance, social problems and political crisis. The real roots of solutions are omitted.
Treating History

Treating History

An anarchist, a Jesuit, a female senator and a bank expert, allies in civic courage. František Kriegel was one of the most courageous men in the modern history of Czechoslovakia, and was the only one of the country's…
Race to the Bottom

Race to the Bottom

Capital mobility vs. people who stay behind. The end of human labour - a flaw in the system, design of the elites, or a new opportunity? Are labour unions a thing of the past? Have the unemployed become heroes of the…
Great Opportunity

Great Opportunity

Until the crisis of 2008, some eight thousand Mongolians came to work in the Czech Republic; since that time, the numbers reduced by half. Unlike other nationalities, most of them usually end up working at the very…
The Adventure of Anna Barbora - An Interplay

The Adventure of Anna Barbora - An Interplay

In a single scene, film director Vít Janeček records a discussion between journalist, ecologist and sociologist Jakub Patočka and his girlfriend Kateřina Havránková about a sudden turnaround in the case of 13-year-old…
History of Jaroslav Šabata

History of Jaroslav Šabata

The film features the psychologist, politician and journalist Jaroslav Šabata (*1927) who symbolizes half a century of Czech history. The film explains the traces left by left-wing intelligentsia who first served the…
Rules of the Game - Delimitation of Space

Rules of the Game - Delimitation of Space

The project entitled Rules of the Game developed into a series of institutional portraits. The first part Defining the Space takes place during the NATO Summit in Prague in 2002. It deals with the specificity of such a…
SYL-LA-BA-RY (Excerpts)

SYL-LA-BA-RY (Excerpts)

A playful experiment - words, symbols and the game behind it all.
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