section: Czech Joy
edition: 2021
country: Czech Republic
Jindřich Andrš (1994) studied documentary filmmaking at FAMU and film theory at Charles University and Edinburgh Napier University. His feature documentary debut A New Shift (20202), an intimate time-lapse portrait of a laid-off miner who decides to retrain as a programmer, won numerous jury and audience awards (DOK Leipzig, FIPADOC, IDFF Jihlava, Czech Film Critics’ Awards, Finále Plzeň, longlisted for European Film Awards and others). As a producer he completed the internationally successful short film Pripyat Piano – a "documentary concert" from Chernobyl.