Film Screening IFFWW: Another Summer – Stories of Exile + Q&A session

Location 1: Embassy of the Czech Republic in London (26 Kensington Palace

Gardens, W84QY)

Time: 16:00 - 18:10

Tickets: £ 5

Attention! Entry is free, but please note: each person may register for only one ticket, and it’s essential to provide your full name as it appears on your passport. Please also bring an ID document for verification at entry.

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Afghanistan and Ukraine, what do they have in common? And what remains of humanity when conflict outbursts?

Another Summer tells stories of Afghan and Ukrainian refugees in Europe through their perspective. It is a film by refugees about refugees – the directors of Another Summer provided training and equipment to a group of Afghan and Ukrainian first-time filmmakers who had taken refuge in different European countries after the Taliban takeover in 2021 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The filmmakers were divided into teams and sent to seven cities in Europe and Turkey. Their task was to record the stories of people like themselves who had fled violence and repression, capture what it nowadays means to be a refugee, and gather unseen footage from their past lives and the horrors they endured. From what they brought back, one senses the bonds of people who recognize in each other what they have lost and the humanity they refuse to give up.

Does it matter where you come from when you have to leave your home, what was yours has been stolen or destroyed and your past has been stripped away?

Director Biography - David Edwards, Alžběta Kovandová Bartoníčková

DAVID B. EDWARDS
David Edwards is the co-director and producer of the film, Kabul Transit (https://www.kabultransit.net/), which was an official selection of numerous film festivals, including the Los Angeles Film Festival, the International Documentary Festival - Amsterdam, and the Independents Night film series at Lincoln Center in New York City. An anthropologist and specialist on Afghanistan, Edwards is the author of three books published by the University of California Press, the most recent of which (Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan) was awarded the Senior Book Prize from the American Ethnological Society (https://americanethnologist.org/awards/senior-book-prize/caravan-of-martyrs/). Edwards has degrees from Princeton University and the University of Michigan and has received research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which named him a Scholar of Vision in 2002.

Filmography:
Kabul Transit (96min, 2006)

ALŽBĚTA KOVANDOVÁ BARTONÍČKOVÁ
Alžběta Kovandová Bartoníčková is a documentary film director and researcher, based in London, originally from Prague, Czech Republic. She works as a full-time Lecturer in Film & Media Practice and studies a PhD in Film: Practice as Research at the University of Kent. She has made several short documentaries and experimental films, which were screened and in competition at international film festivals, and shortlisted for awards such as the Best Czech Short Documentary Award or Magnesia Award for the Best Student Film.
Alžběta has completed her Bachelor's degree at the Department of Documentary Film at FAMU in Prague and subsequently studied Master of Research in Art and Design at Liverpool John Moores University. She is a co-founder of the first Autism-Friendly Screenings in the Czech Republic.
More details can be found at Alžběta's website: www.alzbetabartonickova.com

Filmography:
– Brutal Beauty: A Video Tour of the Czech and Slovak Embassies in London (34 min, 2021)
– Too Much of No One (35 min, 2019)
– The Storyline (35mm, 4 min, 2017)
– Loneliness of the Porcupines (28 min, 2017)
– Everything Will End Up In a Pine Box (17 min, 2015)
– The Air Shaft (9 min, 2014)

Tickets: £ 5

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