Pavla!

Barbora Venclová / Czech Republic / 2024 / World Premiere / 15 min.

synopsis

In the 1980s, she was one of the prominent personalities of Czech alternative music. In parallel, she studied translation and anthropology and became an expert on gender and subcultures. A portrait of the musician, feminist and scholar Pavla Jonssonová, whose lifelong programme is to revolt against established structures.

“When we were having so much fun with the girls in the band, I wished more girls had a band too and experienced the great joy of creating.”

biography

Barbora Venclová studied film history and theory at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. She is currently studying documentary directing at FAMU. In addition to making her own documentaries, she cooperates with a number of Czech NGOs.