Also this year the Czech Centre Tel Aviv is participating at the Haifa International Film Festival, which will take place on 19 – 28 September 2021. Czech Republic will be represented by director Michaela Pavlátová and her animated movie ‚My Sunny Maad‘. The movie is based on the novel 'Frista' by Czech journalist Petra Procházková.
Screenings
21 September 2021 at 12:15, Auditorium
26 September 2021 at 14:00, Cinematheque Haifa
Web Haifa International Film Festival
Synopsis
Getting married is always a big step, but for Helena it marks a fundamental change in her life. She leaves Prague behind and moves with Nazir to Kabul, where she becomes part of a family she has never met. The new world brings much joy, but also difficulties that a European married to an Afghan man must overcome. But the clash of cultures is just one theme in Michaela Pavlátová’s new film, which elegantly avoids taking a stereotyped view of its subject. My Sunny Maad is first and foremost a humanist exploration of the dynamics of human relationships, which – though they play out against the two-dimensional backdrop of a Central Asian city – also offers a more universal message about the importance of mutual respect and understanding.
Michaela Pavlátová
Michaela Pavlátová was born in Prague, Czech Republic. In 1987 she graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague. As an animation film director, her films have received numerous awards at international film festivals, including an Oscar nomination for Reci, reci, reci/Words, words, words, the Grand Prix in Montreal, and accolades at Berlin, Tampere, Hiroshima, Stuttgart and the list goes on. Her short animated film, Repete, has also won a series of awards including the Grand Prix at the International Animation Festival Hiroshima and Golden Bear in Berlin.
Petra Procházková
Petra Procházková is a Czech journalist and humanitarian worker. She is best known as a war correspondent from conflict areas of the former Soviet Union. During Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 she was the only journalist staying in the besieged Russian White House. In 1994, together with fellow journalist Jaromír Štětina, Procházková founded the independent journalism agency Epicentrum dedicated to war reporting. Her work has won several journalistic awards. Procházková founded also a small humanitarian organisation Berkat which concentrates on aid mainly to Chechnya and Afghanistan. She began covering the situation in Afghanistan and was the last journalist to speak with Ahmed Shah Massoud before he was killed.
In 2001, the cash prize of the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award was passed on to her by Madeleine Albright.
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