28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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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.

 

40 Days without the Sun

40 Days without the Sun

director: João Carlos Furia
original title: 40 dias sem o sol
country: Brazil
year: 2024
running time: 15 min.
Virtual RealityCzech Premiere
The difficult issue of a mother's abortion is seen through the eyes of a child. A processing of this experience emerges through the child's memories, as 40 days of darkness envelop the house until the family can accept life and death and move forward.
A Vocal Landscape

A Vocal Landscape

director: Anne Jeppesen, Omid Zarei
country: Denmark, United States
year: 2023
running time: 14 min.
Virtual RealityCzech Premiere
The hyperrealistic VR experience explores the anatomy of a conversation between two people. During an imaginative journey the audience travels with them through a changing space, observing their associations and unspoken interactions.
Astra

Astra

director: Eliza McNitt
original title: Astra
country: United States, France
year: 2024
running time: 60 min.
Virtual RealityCzech Premiere
The mixed-reality experience delves into the deepest reaches of the cosmos, taking the audience on a journey to the planets and their dark moons, learning about the key ingredients of life in the universe and exploring possible future worlds.
Dreaming of Lebanon

Dreaming of Lebanon

director: Cynthia Sawma, Martin Waehlisch
country: United States
year: 2023
running time: 21 min.
Virtual RealityCzech Premiere
An interactive documentary giving a glimpse into the lives of young Lebanese men and women and their hopes for the future. It uses the latest technology of volumetric video, stereoscopic 360° viewing and 3D animation. The audience engages in conversations with three Lebanese people from different walks of life and different parts of the country, exploring the reality of their lives. Since 2019, Lebanon has been facing one of the most severe economic downturns in the world. Inflation has skyrocketed, electricity is scarce, and life is a perpetual struggle for many. But despite the hardships, there is hope for a better future. The characters in the film have stayed in their country despite the hardships.
Fragile Home

Fragile Home

director: Ondřej Moravec, Victoria Lopukhina
original title: Křehký domov
country: Czech Republic
year: 2024
running time: 30 min.
Virtual RealityCzech Premiere
What would you do when your home appears to be in danger? Would you stay or leave? Each day, since the beginning of the war, millions of Ukrainians are asking themselves this question. Fragile Home is an immersive experience in mixed reality, co-directed by Ondřej Moravec and Victoria Lopukhina, that poses this question to each of us. Through the medium of mixed reality, you can experience the gradual transformation of your familiar surroundings into the dwelling of a Ukrainian family, spanning from the peaceful beginning of the past to the tumultuous present.
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Murals

director: Alex Topaller, Artem Ivanenko, Dan Shapiro
original title: Murals
country: Ukraine, Poland, United States
year: 2023
running time: 9 min.
Virtual RealityCzech Premiere
Murals is an immersive visual experience that uses cutting-edge 3D scanning to place viewers face to face with the war devastation in Ukraine. The not-for-profit art project follows captures of Banksy’s artwork left on the rubble of people’s homes, schools and infrastructure.
Shadowtime

Shadowtime

director: Deniz Tortum, Sister Sylvester
original title: Shadowtime
country: Netherlands, Türkiye, United States
year: 2023
running time: 18 min.
Virtual RealityCzech Premiere
You are in two worlds at the same time. Your body is in the other world, but your heart is in ours. To exist in the virtual world is to have two bodies, four hands and two hearts. Alma, the mysterious guide to this double world, will take you through issues around the climate crisis, irreconcilable realities and the virtual world as a place to hide.
The Deserted: VR

The Deserted: VR

director: Tsai Ming-liang
original title: The Deserted: VR
country: Taiwan
year: 2017
running time: 55 min.
Virtual RealityCzech Premiere
A visually captivating reflection on loneliness and immersion in one's own world. Hsiao-Kang, recovering from an illness in the mountains, meets his late mother who cooks for him; the ghost of a girl living in the neighbourhood is similarly elusive, leaving him with only a lonely fish for company.
The Lost Time

The Lost Time

director: Christian Zipfel
original title: Die wenige Zeit
country: Germany
year: 2024
running time: 20 min.
Virtual RealityCzech Premiere
Berlin, 1943: Margot Friedländer's mother and her brother Ralph are arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the East. Unaware of her family's whereabouts, young Margot hides in the Berlin underground. After 15 months, she is caught and deported to Theresienstadt. She hopes to finally see Ralph and her mother again, but both have already been deported to Auschwitz.

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Festival partners

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