28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Vote For Kibera
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Vote For Kibera
Vote For Kibera
Vote For Kibera
Vote For Kibera
Vote For Kibera

Vote For Kibera

director: Martin Páv
original title: Kibera: Příběh slumu
country: Czech Republic
year: 2018
running time: 86 min.

synopsis

Photographer Don, a resident of Kibera, a giant slum in Nairobi, says that in his photographs he tries to capture the positive side of his home – not suffering, misery, and resignation, but hope, determination, and creativity. And Martin Páv’s documentary has taken a similar approach. Working with the unique photogenic qualities of the slum, the film is structured as a series of interviews with local residents. Besides Don, we also meet local artists, a teacher, and a boxing coach. Nevertheless, in the film’s final part about the presidential elections in Kenya, the frustrations, hopelessness, and violence in Kibera bubble to the surface.

“People can co-operate if they have a reason to.“ M. Páv

biography

A graduate from FAMU’s directing department, Martin Páv (1992) has previously worked mostly with fiction film. Even before starting his studies, he shot the low-budget feature film Keep Going (2012), part of which is set in India. While at FAMU, he created several short student films, including Hamburgers (2012) and The Fourth Spring (2013), as well as the medium-length childhood drama The Great Journey (2015).

more about film

director: Martin Páv
producer: Zuzana Kučerová
photography: Petr Racek, Simmon Okongo
editing: Matěj Beran
music: Ondřej Mataj
sound: Adam Bláha
co-producer: Česká Televize
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Creative Europe Media
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
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