29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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We Used to Have a Garden
We Used to Have a Garden
We Used to Have a Garden
We Used to Have a Garden

We Used to Have a Garden

Hana Slaninová / Czech Republic / 2023 / World Premiere / 8 min.


synopsis

In this meditative and playful time-lapse documentary, the author observes a gardener and a garden gnome searching for a lost garden in a concrete backyard.

biography

Hana Slaninová was born in Ostrava. She studied bookbinding and stone printing. She makes her living as a graphic designer of board games, and she is an enthusiastic emitter of sounds and an amateur curator of flowers. She started discovering the magic of documentary films during the My Street Films 2021 workshop. Now she is studying her second year at Department of Documentary Film at FAMU.

more about film

director: Hana Slaninová
producer: Lenka Medová

contact

FAMU / Viola Ježková
viola.jezkova@amu.cz

Film at festival

premiere type:World Premiere
festival edition:2023
section:Ji.hlava Online, FAMU Presents
language:Czech
subtitles:English
colour:Colour

Info

director:Hana Slaninová
original title:Měli jsme zahradu 
country:Czech Republic
year:2023
running time:8 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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