Still from 'Jakub'

Three Films by Jana Ševcíková

The focus of Czech documentary filmmaker Jana Ševcíková’s work is the life of exiled populations, all existing seemingly in a world apart from the highways and metros of a modern and progressive Europe, hanging on by their grim teeth to tradition, even through displacement, monotonous poverty, and the lugubrious afterimages of war. Read the rest of this entry »