29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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Mira Fornay

Mira Fornay

section: First Lights
edition: 2025
country: Slovakia
Mira Fornay - an award-winning filmmaker (writer, director and editor) who has made 4 feature films and 14 short films. Her last feature film MIMI {She - Hero} premiered at the Berlinale 2023 and won GRAND PRIX of the Kplus Generation Berlinale. Her second feature film My Dog Killer won the Tiger Hivos Award in the main competition at IFF Rotterdam in 2013. It was nominated for the EFA Awards and was the Slovak National Nomination for the Foreign Language Oscars. It won the Slovak National Film Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Film. Her debut film Foxes premiered at the International Critic's Week, Venice Film Festival 2009 and went on to top festivals around the world, as well as her 3rd feature film Cook F**k Kill, which premiered at Rebel with a Cause at Tallin BlackNights IFF and IFF Rotterdam in 2020. The film won the CineRebel Award at Filmfest Munich and was nominated for the Czech National Film Awards for Best Film and Best Director. Her new feature film Twist the Rabbit was selected among 34 films in development for the Berlinale Coproduction Market in 2024 in the section "Berlinale Directors". Twist the Rabbit as well as her TV miniseries Carpathian Beast (presented at Series Mania in Paris) are in pre-production and development.

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CONTACT US

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Karlovo náměstí 285/19
120 00 Prague 2
Czech Republic

e-mail: info@ji-hlava.cz

Festival partners

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

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