28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality competition gives viewers the chance to enter into 360° films and spatial installations. Here, you can find 360° documentary films, VR installations and works on the boundary between film and art that make use of virtual spaces to create autonomous worlds whose own rules are determined by visuality. We are interested in works that take advantage of the characteristics of virtuality in an innovative and contemplative manner, that experiment with the audiovisual representation of reality and real stories, or that build an entertaining and instructive world of knowledge and learning.

film database

Flow VR
Flow uses spatial imagery and sound to suggest fluidity, embodied by wind and sweeping air currents on a seemingly ordinary day. Reservations for VR projects must be made in the VR Zone in OGV.

Flow VR

Adriaan Lokmaan
France, Netherlands / 2023 / 15 min.
section: Virtual Reality
Czech Premiere
Fukushima – The Home That Once Was
Former residents of the area around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant describe their experiences with the loss of home, the importance of community and the fragility of memories while the audience can walk through their former homes and gardens. Reservations for VR projects are to be made in the VR Zone in OGV.

Fukushima – The Home That Once Was

Kohei Okada, Timo Wright
Denmark, Finland / 2023 / 20 min.
section: Virtual Reality
Czech Premiere
Her Name Was Gisberta
Her Name Was Gisberta is a documentary film depicting the life and death of Gisberta Salce, a trans woman murdered by 14 teenagers in the Portuguese city of Porto in 2006. It was created as a tool for education, social intervention and activism against transphobia. Reservations for VR projects must be made in the VR Zone in OGV.

Her Name Was Gisberta

Sérgio Galvão Roxo
Brazil, Portugal / 2023 / 30 min.
section: Virtual Reality
Czech Premiere
HUMAN VIOLINS
HUMAN VIOLINS evokes the power of transformative music in the darkest of times. The story is inspired by a heartbreaking real fact: during the Holocaust, many Jews were allowed to choose only one object before being brought to the camps and some of them chose their violin. Reservations for VR projects must be made in the VR Zone in OGV.

HUMAN VIOLINS

Ioana Mischie
France, Romania / 2023 / 19 min.
section: Virtual Reality
Czech Premiere
Chroma 11
Chroma 11 is an immersive experience based on the true story of lost love, that expands the boundaries of moving images with VR technology. Through clips of rearranged memories and volumetric video, the creative team reconstructs the parted souls in the form of a duo dance after life.Reservations for VR projects must be made in the VR Zone in OGV.

Chroma 11

Tsang Tsui-Shan
Hong Kong / 2022 / 30 min.
section: Virtual Reality
Czech Premiere
Missing Pictures: Naomi Kawase
In her VR documentary, MISSING PICTURES: Naomi Kawase, the renowned Japanese filmmaker explores self-acceptance through a bicycle trip love story. Reservations for VR projects must be made in the VR Zone in OGV.

Missing Pictures: Naomi Kawase

Clément Deneux
Luxembourg, Republic of Korea (South Korea), Taiwan, United Kingdom, France / 2022 / 14 min.
section: Virtual Reality
Czech Premiere
Munich 72
Munich 72 is a documentary experience created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Munich Olympics and the 1972 Munich Massacre. In a “VR chat”, users chronologically go through the events of that time in five worlds, which build on each other. Reservations for VR projects must be made in the VR Zone in OGV.

Munich 72

Eva Deinert, Matthias Leitner
Germany / 2022 / 20 min.
section: Virtual Reality
Czech Premiere
Pilot 9/11
Pilot 9/11 presents the events of 11 September 2001 from the unique perspective of military aviators who followed the hijacked passenger planes to prevent the tragedy. A twenty-minute story about coming out of trauma – the wider, national one, and the subjective, personal one. Reservations for VR projects must be made in the VR Zone in OGV.

Pilot 9/11

Norman Leto
Poland / 2023 / 20 min.
section: Virtual Reality
World Premiere
Surfacing
The audience is immersed in the daily lives of women who live in prisons with their children. A story full of pain, but also of resilience and hope, on the border between reality and imagination, combining suggestive narratives with images of prisons and scenes of children's imagination.Reservations for VR projects must be made in the VR Zone in OGV.

Surfacing

Rossella Schillaci
Portugal, Italy / 2022 / 20 min.
section: Virtual Reality
Czech Premiere
The Man Who Couldn't Leave
Within the walls of the former Green Island prison, political detainee A-Kuen, tells the stories of imprisonment and persecution that happened in the 1950s in Taiwan. Among fellow inmates, frozen in time, he recounts his own experiences and those of his friend, A-Ching, who never made it out.Reservations for VR projects must be made in the VR Zone in OGV.

The Man Who Couldn't Leave

Singing Chen
Taiwan / 2022 / 35 min.
section: Virtual Reality
Czech Premiere
The Soil of the Namib: VR
The Soil of the Namib: VR is a 360° series about illegal mining in Namibia. The three episodes narrate the lives and working conditions of small-scale miners in the context of colonialism.Reservations for VR projects must be made in the VR Zone in OGV.

The Soil of the Namib: VR

Christian Zipfel
Germany / 2023 / 28 min.
section: Virtual Reality
Czech Premiere
Uhelná / Turów
The film deals with the theme of landscape transformation around the Czech-Polish-German border and the feeling of helplessness about it. Through immersive VR the viewer walks dense forest paths that are gradually changing into trenches and plains accompanied with industrial zone sounds. Reservations for VR projects must be made in the VR Zone in OGV.

Uhelná / Turów

Viktor Švolík
Czech Republic / 2022 / 10 min.
section: Virtual Reality
World Premiere
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Creative Europe Media
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms