Czech-GermanBOO: Memory, Death, and Forgetting

The Czech-German BOO documentary program presents four different perspectives on the body, memory and death. Fenix opens up the topic of palliative care and sensitive accompaniment of people on their final journey, while Better Man follows three men as they try to cope with trauma through weight training. Ceasefire brings the testimony of a woman who survived the Srebrenica massacre and has been living in a refugee camp for thirty years. The series concludes with the visually poetic Occhio, which connects pain, faith, and science in the search for healing.

A selection of films that look into places where people usually don't want to look – and yet find strength, fragility, and unexpected hope in them.

Total duration is 69 minutes.

Films are screened in original language version with Czech and English subtitles.

The winners are selected by a professional jury composed of female experts from the Czech Republic and Germany. The competition selection, which combines films from the best and largest festivals with promising discoveries, focuses primarily on works intended for adult audiences, but also gives space to films that appeal to children, teenagers, seniors, and other target groups. The festival thus transcends the usual boundaries – we are primarily interested in the quality of individual films.

Supported by the Czech-German Fund for the Future.