Sections

Competition Sections

Opus Bonum

selects the best noteworthy documentaries representing diverse trends from around the world; all films are significant and so the festival offers the following game: one juror...

Between the Seas

is a competition section for the countries and nations of Central and Eastern Europe, including their historical, political and cultural interrelationships

Czech Joy

is not only competition for the best Czech documentary, but also a celebration of the diverse range of new topics and the adventurous spirit of cinematic expression

Fascinations

fascinations is a large factory for experimental filmmaking that takes films based on reality and strips them of all that weighs them down, thus significantly expanding the...

Transparent Landscape: Spain - The General's Face

Transparent Landscape - Spain

Transparent Landscape travels back to Franco’s authoritarian regime in order to look at several important documentary films shot during this period, and to present...

Basilio Martín Patino

After studying philosophy, Patino immediately garnered attention as a talented author. Nevertheless, an important moment in his life was his founding, together with Joaquín de...

José val del Omar

Poet of technology. Mechanic of art. José Val del Omar (1904–1982) invites dichotomies, although in his case we must see them as a synthesis of the avant-garde with tradition,...

Translucent Beings / Retrospectives

Vittorio De Seta

Transluscent Beings are men and women with an inimitable approach to filmmaking. More than anything, our far-reaching surveys represent an homage to the transformations in a...

Albrecht Viktor Blum

Th is German director with Czechoslovak roots created poetic compilation, avant-garde, and social documentary films. Born in Brno under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he began...

Bill Viola

American video artist Bill Viola has been creating videos, architectural and audio video-installations and musical performances for 40 years. After studying fi ne arts and...

Lillian Schwartz

Lillian Schwartz is merican pioneer in computer-generated experimental films. After World War II, she studied calligraphy in Japan. She has been interested in various types of...

Non-competition Sections

Special Events

is a selection of films that capture the current state of the world from various angles; as much as it may seem that there is no common thread running through them, within the...

ZOON Politicon

Presents portraits of Czech and other politicians, and reminds us of the importance of documentary film for understanding politics.

Izrael-Palestine

Shows various forms of helplessness in the vicious circle of violence along the uncertain border between the state of Israel and the territories claimed by the Palestinians.

Doc-fi

expresses the conviction that the boundary between documentary and fiction is porous; in fact, that perhaps no such boundary exists at all - as shown by films whose...

Reality.tv

opens viewers' eyes to new television formats and presents the full range of current forms of crossover genres such as docudrama, docusoap, reality show, and mockumentary

3Docs

Highlights documentary works filmed using 3D technology, in which reality enters directly into the audience’s eyes.

Pause!: Peter Kubelka Masterclass

Pause! Counts frames of film, measures flashes of light, and goes in search of the essence of film. Austrian avant-garde filmmaker will meditate on the meaning of cinema. Peter...

Tribute: Woody Vasulka

promítne rané české a islandské dokumenty Bohuslava Vašulky, který se po svém odchodu do Spojených států zařadil k vůdčím osobnostem první generace...

Fascinations: Exprmntl.CZ

Exprmntl.cz is a survey of the latest Czech experimental films that touch upon reality and never cease in their search for new ways of expressing reality through classical and...

Into History: Vladimír Krajina

Into History expands our views of Czech history. After Protectorate-era documentaries, films made during the communist 1950s, and the history of Czech exile documentaries, we...

Wild thinking

brings together documentaries filmed in the ethnographic or anthropological tradition, i.e., films interested in the cultural relationships, myths, legends, and rituals of...

Day for Audiovisual Heritage

is a holiday declared by UNESCO for October 27 in order to call attention to the vulnerability of cinematographic memory

DocAlliance

is the result of an international partnership including the Czech Republic (Jihlava), Denmark (Copenhagen), Germany (Leipzig), Poland (Warsaw), and Switzerland (Nyon); in each...

Czech television presents

Czech Television presents offers a selection of the most interesting documentaries produced by Czech Television, which continues to play an important role in the creation and...

Short joy

presents a selection of the best Czech and international documentary shorts - consummate works exploring the possibilities and strengths of documentary film within a limited time...

Workshops

Workshops are a place where viewers can meet with filmmakers and their work, a studio where images say even more because we can see them, talk about them, and ask about the films

Radiodocumentary

This is the first year that the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival includes a radio documentary section. Through thirteen radio documentaries (a rich palette of...