Film detail | The Teenage Years of an Ethnic Group

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Country: Czech Republic
Language: Czech
Subtitles: (No Subtitles)
Directed by: Linda Kallistová Jablonská, Tereza Engelová
Year: 2012
Length: 52`
Rating: 12
Story: Linda Kallistová Jablonská, Tereza Engelová
Screenplay: Linda Kallistová Jablonská, Tereza Engelová
Director of Photography: David Cysař, Radka Šplíchalová
Production: Česká televize

Synopsis: Two parts in a series on the lives of teenagers of foreign nationalities or of different faiths in the Czech Republic. Anya, Lesha and Vanya The film presents three, on the whole, normal, slightly adolescent young people. They go to school, have part-time jobs, study, dance, sing, go to clubs and to McDonald's. From time to time they switch from fluent Czech to Russian or Ukrainian. They've been in the Czech Republic for roughly ten years and don't really remember much of "home". They want to stay, work, and have a family. But they certainly don't want to turn their backs on their native countries. Somewhere inside they are still Ukrainians and Russians and their roots are very important to them. Rihla Rihla in Arabic means "path of knowledge". Three Muslim protagonists have symbolically begun to walk this path - two Czech girls, both named Nikola, who converted to Islam a few years ago, and the young Sahrab, who came from Afghanistan in order to study here. Three young people on the path to Islam, and away from it. The documentary shows what it's like to be a Muslim in Czech society and raises the question: Is Islam compatible with life in Western society?

Linda Kallistová Jablonská, Tereza Engelová: Linda Kallistová Jablonská (1979) is a Czech film and TV documentary filmmaker. She graduated from FAMU; during her studies she worked for the company Febio, for which she shot several series, e.g., Cestománie and 12 Odvážných. Her successful original work includes the award-winning films Left Right, Foward (Kupředu levá, kupředu pravá, 2006), Welcome to North Korea (Vítejte v KLDR, 2008) and Earthlings, Who Are You Voting for? (Pozemšťané, koho budete volit?, 2010). She makes short documentaries, series and current affairs programs for Czech Television, including Mother and Mother (Máma a máma, 2011) and Four Buns in the Oven (Čtyři v tom, 2012). Tereza Engelová (1976 ) is a Czech journalist, anchorwoman and documentary filmmaker. She graduated in journalism from Charles University, and then in documentary production from University of London in the UK. She's worked for a long time doing foreign news reporting for Czech Television and working as a correspondent for various Czech media. She also taught courses in media communications for women for a few years in Ráwalpindí, Pakistan. She's currently working primarily as a freelancer in the area of journalism.

Where and when The Teenage Years of an Ethnic Group is screened

Where	When	Reservation
Golden Apple Cinema, č. 6	May 30th at 13:10	N/A

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