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Kateřina Dudová / Czech Republic / 2024 / World Premiere / 23 min.

synopsis

We all perceive poetry differently. For some, a poem is a rhyming text, for others a metaphysical experience. For director Kateřina Dudová, it is an experiment with three people who are close to her, whom she places in one room for three days, leaving them to their fate with the task of writing a poem. Sometimes the recording of real events is more poetic than the poem itself.

“I was given the task of making a 'film poem', but I hate poems, so I'm looking for something… the feeling I want to get from poetry, how I feel. What is a poem?” – Kateřina Dudová

biography

Theater actress and director Kateřina Dudová (1987) graduated from theater directing at DAMU and also studied at the department of documentary production at FAMU. She is the author of the documentary film Blow-off! (2019) and My Paradise Is Darker Than Your Hell (2023), in which she focuses on people living outside of social conventions.

more about film

director:	Kateřina Dudová
producer:	Valeria Borkovcová
photography:	Michal Bohm
editing:	Anna Petruželová
sound:	Matěj Lindner
production manager:	Valeria Borkovcová