Resilience | One World [screening + Q&A]

Resilience / dir. Tomáš Elšík / 2025 / documentary / Czechia / Czech with English subtitles / 80 minutes

Screening followed by a Q&A with protagonist Pavel Pokorný, moderated by Ondřej Kamenický, Director of the One World Human Rights Film Festival.

Blending lyrical essay with environmental detective story, Resilience follows a couple attuned to the silence of the Czech countryside. Klára and her dogs track those poisoning endangered birds of prey, while Pavel hand-mows spring meadows and restores drought-stricken wetlands. Seeing nature as part of themselves, they persist in protecting it—even when the fight feels futile.

In the slow rhythm of landscape changes, accompanied by the sounds of wind, birds, and music coming directly from the earth, this film, inspired by the ideas of cultural ecologist David Abram, asks whether it is still possible to restore the balance between humans and nature; a balance that is disappearing before our eyes more quickly than we are able to understand it.

Pavel Pokorný is an independent natural scientist trained in Forestry and Nature Conservation at Mendel University in Brno. Based in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, he focuses on springs, peat bogs, and small watercourses. He co-founded the association Říční krajina (River Landscape) and is a member of the Czech Union for Nature Conservation (ČSOP).

Ondřej Kamenický is Director of the One World International Human Rights Film Festival. He studied film studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, and curatorial studies at the Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, and has been with the festival since 2009. Held in Prague and more than 60 cities across Czechia, One World presents documentary and fiction films on human rights and social, political, environmental, and media issues, alongside debates, VR events, school screenings, and the East Doc Platform for industry professionals. The festival also distributes films, supports emerging festivals abroad, and is active in international human rights and sustainability networks, including organizing One World in Brussels.

This screening is part of a film series presented by the Czech Center New York in partnership with the One World festival, Václav Havel Center, People in Need, and with support from the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association. The series features international films exploring urgent environmental and human rights issues, each accompanied by conversations with filmmakers, experts, and activists. Hosted at the Czech Center Cinema, the program is inspired by the civic and intellectual legacy of Václav Havel, whose 90th birthday we commemorate this year.

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Info: Q&A with the film's protagonist Pavel Pokorný, moderated by Ondřej Kamenický, Director of the One World Human Rights Film Festival.

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