28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Universities and Freedom

Universities and Freedom

director: Zuzana Piussi, Vít Janeček
original title: Univerzity a svoboda
running time: 70 min.

synopsis

This documentary film points out new challenges in the inner workings of university education face to face with massification and commercialism influencing both practical and symbolic meanings of education and schooling as such. Talks on these issues are given by a score of personalities, e.g. by sociologist Frank Furedi or linguist Noam Chomsky. The film will be co-screened with Open Fortress. A Q&A session with guests is planned after the screening.

biography

Documentary filmmakers Vít Janeček (1970) and Zuzana Piussi (1971) are, among others, the authors of the documentary film Peasant Common Sense (2018) revealing methods of Czech PM Andrej Babiš in his agricultural business activities along with their impacts on the country’s landscape.

more about film

director: Zuzana Piussi, Vít Janeček
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Creative Europe Media
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms