28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Dancing in the Light
Nelson Sullivan was a prominent figure in New York's queer community in the 1980s. With a video camera that he rarely let go of, he was also a chronicler of the club scene of the time. The archival documentary draws on the rich video archive Sullivan left behind. It looks at a marginalised subculture and the life of the man sometimes described as the first vlogger. “Should I talk to the camera like it's a person?”

Dancing in the Light

Julie Petríková
Czech Republic / 2023 / 28 min.
section: First Lights, Ji.hlava Online
World Premiere
The Many Lives of Édouard Louis
Édouard Louis comes from a poor family in the north-west of France. But, in less than a decade after the publication of his debut novel, The End of Eddy, he has become one of the leading figures on the French literary scene. The transformation of a boy from a proletarian background into a privileged Parisian intellectual with high cultural capital is one of the central lines of this biographical documentary. Louis is given the space to retell the story of his difficult childhood, adolescence and integration into a new social class in his own words. He introduces us to the landscape of his youth and to the act of writing, which for him is above all a means of crossing boundaries. “Here is a young man who has not stopped transforming himself for twenty years. His entire career has been marked by renewal.” – François Caillat Source: Outplay Films

The Many Lives of Édouard Louis

François Caillat
France / 2023 / 71 min.
section: Ji.hlava Online, Testimonies
Czech Premiere
Worship the Body
Jakub and Martin worship their own bodies. They are the source of their livelihood. They live half in Brno, half on the online OnlyFans platform, where they fulfil the fantasies of their followers – from displaying their biceps, which they build with regular visits to the gym, to golden showers and imitating pigs. They approach conversations about work the same way they approach their bodies – without inhibitions. “Look at these muscles. Me and Martin are flexing for you.”

Worship the Body

Simone Egarter
Czech Republic / 2023 / 23 min.
section: First Lights, Ji.hlava Online
World Premiere
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