Fatherhood
This feature documentary is about fatherhood, often underrated, compared to motherhood. Biologically, fatherhood is the same for all men, but its perception can vary. Unlike women who are physically connected with motherhood, the father's role depends on a man's approach and understanding.
We will follow four men - fathers for the first time - coming from the most significant ethnic communities of the Czech Republic: Czech, Roma, Vietnamese and Ukrainian. We will concentrate on last months of pregnancy, childbirth and upbringing of child. Shooting would take approx. 1,5 year.
The fathers will be our protagonists, we will observe their approach to fatherhood, their fears and happy expectation and also their various cultural backgrounds, naturally influencing the father's roles. One of the protagonists will be an "active father“, which is an interesting phenomenon of the last years.
We want to concentrate a lot on a visual side of the film. The statements of the men won't be direct to camera, they will flow out of various life situations. Four stories will be narrated in parallel and connected in editing through similar situations.
We will follow four men - fathers for the first time - coming from the most significant ethnic communities of the Czech Republic: Czech, Roma, Vietnamese and Ukrainian. We will concentrate on last months of pregnancy, childbirth and upbringing of child. Shooting would take approx. 1,5 year.
The fathers will be our protagonists, we will observe their approach to fatherhood, their fears and happy expectation and also their various cultural backgrounds, naturally influencing the father's roles. One of the protagonists will be an "active father“, which is an interesting phenomenon of the last years.
We want to concentrate a lot on a visual side of the film. The statements of the men won't be direct to camera, they will flow out of various life situations. Four stories will be narrated in parallel and connected in editing through similar situations.
Who Is Missing Today?
Vivid situations, concentrated observations, journals from scientific expeditions and art compelling animations create a distinctive documentary about the fragile and vital relationships between humans, birds and the landscape.
Through globetrotter, renowned ornithologist and pioneer of telemetric bird tracking Lubomír Peške, we will see how changes in these relationships affect the life and death of birds. And this on the level of individuals, populations and species.
Thanks to transmitters and photo traps, the European honey buzzard, the Ibis or the Blackbird are transformed from anonymous pieces into concrete beings and drawing our attention to their fates. There is a strange contradiction between the fact that humans are able to build a relationship with a specific individual, but that, in Peške's words, in terms of the survival of the population, the means nothing in a way. It is the complex relationships within the environment that must be in order for individual species to thrive.
But when we watch one of the last wild ibis in the Syrian desert, or a family of nuthatch in a box in the garden, we see that individuals do matter. Or rather, it's our relationship with them that matters. Warm attentiveness towards other creatures, which Lubomír Peške shows us in the film, leads us to think about what it actually means to have a living relationship with nature. And what would it mean if such an approach would be common.
Through globetrotter, renowned ornithologist and pioneer of telemetric bird tracking Lubomír Peške, we will see how changes in these relationships affect the life and death of birds. And this on the level of individuals, populations and species.
Thanks to transmitters and photo traps, the European honey buzzard, the Ibis or the Blackbird are transformed from anonymous pieces into concrete beings and drawing our attention to their fates. There is a strange contradiction between the fact that humans are able to build a relationship with a specific individual, but that, in Peške's words, in terms of the survival of the population, the means nothing in a way. It is the complex relationships within the environment that must be in order for individual species to thrive.
But when we watch one of the last wild ibis in the Syrian desert, or a family of nuthatch in a box in the garden, we see that individuals do matter. Or rather, it's our relationship with them that matters. Warm attentiveness towards other creatures, which Lubomír Peške shows us in the film, leads us to think about what it actually means to have a living relationship with nature. And what would it mean if such an approach would be common.
Last crime we don’t remember
Against the backdrop of a collapsing regime and an emerging free society, the actions of a group of minors—ending in tragedy—have gradually faded from public discourse. Through period police reconstruction footage, we uncover a criminal story that has vanished from memory, much like the recovered materials themselves. The restoration of the sound and image serves as an aesthetic and formal portal into 1980s Czechoslovakia. This documentary diptych consists of two films, We Had an Oath and Yes, I Remember, each approaching the same story from a different angle to bear witness to an era that, much like the footage itself, seems lost yet remains dangerously close.