czeXperiment: The Voice of Children + The Voice of Freedom

synopsis

The czeXperiment project aims to “get closer to the essence of the Czech mentality” through fun polls, social experiments and interviews. The episodes presented at Ji.hlava are dedicated to the topics of education and prison. They are commented on by the individuals who are most directly affected by them. Second grade students are thus given the opportunity to evaluate the level of teaching, their life at school and their position in the world. Women serving their sentences in the largest correctional facility of its kind in the country reflect on their personal, family and social life, which, due to various circumstances, has found itself at a dramatic crossroads.

“CzeXperiment is my project, which is intended to be a kind of probe into the soul of the Czech nation.”

Source: Seznam Zprávy

biography

Jan Látal (1980) is a Czech filmmaker and one of the founding members of Družina, a creative studio dedicated to the creation of public benefit campaigns. At Ji.hlava, audiences have already seen his documentaries Paroubek with a Thousand Faces (2011), Czech Beer War (2014) and These Times Are Not For Us (2021).

more about film

director:	Jan Látal
producer:	Jan Látal, Marcela Margašová
script:	Jan Látal
photography:	Petr Čížek
editing:	Vít Hradil
sound design:	Eliška Blauberová
production manager:	Jan Hruška

contact

Jan Látal / latal@me.com