Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival’s platform for thinking about the contemporary world
IF Lab 2025/26
Speakers & Moderators
Whom you can meet this year.
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Timothy Morton
Environmental philosopher
Helen Hester
Feminist theorist
Nick Srnicek
Philosopher
Cheryl Maloney
Activist and aboriginal law expert
Siri Aas Rustad
Researcher
Ruwaida Kamal Amer
Journalist, producer and filmmaker
Kirthi Jajakumar
Researcher, lawyer and foreign policy activist
Matthias Sinnemann
Researcher
Kristina Ciroková
Investigative reporter
Supporters
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News
Soutěžte s Inspiračním fórem: Navrhněte plakát a vyhrajte akreditaci na MFDF Ji.hlava a další hodnotné ceny!
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Catch up on what you missed. The best of this year's Inspiration Forum is now online
Inspiration Forum 2024 – war, immunity, forests, new technologies and leisure, and new formats
Planetary immunity, the microbiome or the art of war. Unexpected perspectives on today's toughest questions
Forest baths, wartime embroidery and a silenced pandemic. Inspiration Forum reveals the next part of its packed programme
Join us at the opening of the Bodies of Water exhibition
Technology and leisure, forest, war and immunity. Introducing the themes and personalities of the upcoming edition
IF Lab showcase at Sensorium Festival
Texts
Collection of essays, interviews, and poems.
Show moreContemporary Wars Only Have Losers: Interview with Pavel Barša
Contemporary Wars Only Have Losers: Interview with Pavel Barša Pavel Barša, Petr Bittner
interview
Long COVID: The Long Road to Recognition of a New Pandemic
Long COVID: The Long Road to Recognition of a New Pandemic Adam Hrubý, Hana Pololáníková, Petr Bittner
interview
Smart Homes Rarely Make Things Easier for Women — They are Mostly Controlled by Men
Smart Homes Rarely Make Things Easier for Women — They are Mostly Controlled by Men Nina Fárová, Petr Bittner
interview
The Forest Can Tell Us What It Needs: On the State, Future, and Unsuspected Potential of the Forest.
The Forest Can Tell Us What It Needs: On the State, Future, and Unsuspected Potential of the Forest. Jaromír Bláha, Petr Bittner
interview
From Communism to Commonism? Learning from Central Europe
From Communism to Commonism? Learning from Central Europe Jan Sowa
essay
Who is Space For?
Who is Space For? Natalie B. Treviño
essay
Liberating Media Culture From the Vocabulary of Late Stage Capitalism
Liberating Media Culture From the Vocabulary of Late Stage Capitalism Total Refusal
essay
On the Endless Quest for Justice
On the Endless Quest for Justice Kiri Dalena
visual story
Our Task Is to Make Care Into a Global Value
Our Task Is to Make Care Into a Global Value Judith Butler
essay
Podcast
Global discourse on contemporary issues through the perspective of thinkers and artists.
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ChatGPT is trained by poorly paid people from the Global South, highlights Marx
Paris Marx
Matouš Hrdina
We can only face the climate crisis with new stories, shows writer Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason
Jonáš Zbořil
Beyond the Gameplay
Total Refusal
Leonhard Müllner
Václav Janoščík
Responding to Despotism
Kiri Dalena
Anna Remešová
Trouble with Gender, Care and Violence
Judith Butler
Between the Human Animal and the Animate Earth
David Abram
Video
Audiovisual archive capturing debates, conversations and talks over the years.
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The Future of War and Peace
Siri Aas Rustad
Kirthi Jajakumar
Jakub Múčka
War Without Rules
David Schard
Pavel Barša
Eva Kušíková
Jan Mazal
Women Behind the Front Lines
Ruwaida Kamal Amer
Fatma Mohamed
Ivo Bystřičan
Planetary Immunity
Timothy Morton
Lukáš Likavčan
Less Work, More Life
Matthias Sinnemann
Markéta Švarcová
Ondřej Kolínský
Barbora Bakošová
A New Concept of Immunity
Martin Zach
Untreated, Uncured
Magdalena Dušková
Silvia Dobrodenková
Rebeka Veselá
Adam Hrubý
Hana Pololáníková
Klára Šimáčková Laurenčíková
Secrets of the Microbiome
Monika Cahová
Forest As a Source of Life and Politics
Cheryl Maloney
Lukáš Senft
Community
Those who inspire us. From global thinkers and scientists to local activists and artists.
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Lenka Vráblíková
Theorist of contemporary art and visual culture
Timothy Morton
Environmental philosopher
Helen Hester
Feminist theorist
Nick Srnicek
Philosopher
Cheryl Maloney
Activist and aboriginal law expert
Siri Aas Rustad
Researcher
Ruwaida Kamal Amer
Journalist, producer and filmmaker
Kirthi Jajakumar
Researcher, lawyer and foreign policy activist
Matthias Sinnemann
Researcher