Lucie Králová

The collective unconscious is a layer of the human psyche whose collective mental contents go beyond the individual, to the whole human community or race. Dream-Heeders examines the current state of the world and its direction as shared in our collective unconscious, via dreams. What of our collective unconscious do we share in these times of financial crisis and migration, rising extremism, ever greater consumption but also education, population growth, global warming and terrorism? Can dreams influence our choices and actions? Through the accounts of people impacted by life-altering trans-personal dreams, and with the latest findings of dream research, the film explores the collective nature of dreams as documentary testimonial of our times and the world we live in.

"I have wild horses in me. If I don't punish them with hard work every day, they will start using their strength against me.” Marcela ran away from problems 5 years ago and got pretty far, to the Olympic games in Tokyo.

A legend of Canada’s First Nation of Mi’kmaq says that Moose once came to men and made a deal on under what conditions it would dedicate its meat to humans. As the Mi’kmaq representatives guide us through Amoosed! we get to understand why humans have lost the trust of moose (and nature) and how they can regain it.

Six different people in different countries have changed their way of perceiving nature after they have encountered Moose. Initially, they all wanted to control or abuse them, but ended up changed by them. Can a single species change the overall sensitivity about nature and twist the current future we are heading towards? Are we allowed to interfere with the lives of others, even animals, and to what extend?

Sasha, the farmer at the Russian moose domestication station in Kostroma protects moose and only wishes for them to be free, but the calves are still taken away from their moose mothers at the farm. Moose are dying of malnutrition in Czech zoos while the experts on moose, who have never seen one live, describe how many years on average moose live and what kind of thousands of herbs they need in their daily menu. Then there are the bizarre Swedish owners of moose safaris who, although they love moose, keep them in captivity and show them to tourists.

As Mi'kmaqs slowly succeed in reclaiming their territories and rights, moose are succeeding in persuading us that we, humans, belong to the ecosystem, and we are all one inseparable whole with nature.

We imagine that kids from different backgrounds have different futures, but what do kids imagine for themselves? Love and Capitalism is a documentary essay grounded in the director’s dilemma about how to raise her son in a global society where money matters more and more. The film explores how children express different understandings of our world and the future. Set in a vast white laboratory, children co-create their ideas of today’s society, putting up a mirror to the values we are passing on to them and showing us a new way of existing: the digital world. Using live collage sequences, interviews, footage shot by kids, and a magical object, The Time Machine, the film documents how we are, or perhaps are not, preparing children for what’s coming. Are we engineering our children to succeed in the global system? And if so, is it a system that will ensure or destroy their future?

Documentary feature based on 8 mm films found in an Institute for teenage girls classified as mentally handicapped in Klentnice, Czechia. While nuns took care for the young inmates, one of them had a camera. Film unfolds the story of the gaze itself as these marginalized women made their existence visible through filming. Those who were to remain unseen are now looking back.

Pepa, the film’s author and narrator, meets their cousin David after many years lying in hospital where his legs were amputated. Pepa’s older Brother has lived on the street for over a decade. He sleeps in a concrete shed in the middle of a housing development where Brother and Pepa grew up. Their cousin Marco, David’s brother, houses in a garage and makes do collecting electronic waste. Pepa was unable to save their father but is resolved to save their Brother and cousins.

If Pigeons Turned to Gold follows three years in the lives of four relatives, contrasting a common childhood with a present fundamentally at odds. A mosaic-structured documentary, it charts the story of a quest for balance between love and hate, care and self-destruction, exploring the roots of addiction and the possibility of breaking with generational trauma. How does one let those whom one loves most live (and perhaps die)? How do we stop tolerating and begin to respect?