To meet the Film

This documentary mosaic presents a reconstruction of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. The festival guests encounter the everyday atmosphere of a town that each year becomes the centre of a celebration of film; they become part of the stylised scenes, enter into the stories that begin to evolve, and engage in a dialogue, confirming that the relationship between the filmmaker, the work, and the viewer is never culminated. _ The film does not tell the history of the festival or relate its purpose, but it is an opportunity for an encounter between a group of five former jurors who come from Jihlava and the surrounding area and documentary filmmakers. The film's playful concept is augmented by the choice of themes and how they are realised through events that transform the entire town into a living cinema. _ Jiří Krejčík is a guest of Zdeněk Krásenský, a secondary school teacher, and takes part in a pre-election event at which both the town mayor and the district commissioner are present. Dressed in historical motorist attire Miroslav Kalina, a train dispatcher, rides through the Vysočina district with the author of the Auto*Mat project Martin Mareček and they discuss the future of railway travel. _ Milan Hanusek, a dentist, invites Kristýna Vlachová onto the roof of the Prior building where they together interview the architect of this structure that has dominated Jihlava's town square since the normalisation period. Vít Sedláček, a businessman, observes a meeting between Karel Vachek and a naked model, and the director Jan Šikl, a gest of Veronika Reynková, a book buyer and publisher, escorts a German who was expelled from the country in the post-war population transfer.

The partner of the screening is International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava