Mammut Film

The days of being a supporter of the Hammarby football team are hard, even for the most dedicated fan. The unwilling step into the future is embodied by the leaving of the classic home stadium Söderstadion.

Jan Jedlička is one of the best kept secrets in the world of art. He was born in Prague in 1944 where he studied painting at the academy before immigrating to Switzerland in 1969. Petr Zaruba conveys through cinematic and formal choices the complexities of Jedlička’s creative strategies. An intertwined dialogue between two artists.

Bobkata – a down-on-his-luck funeral director in a corrupt provincial town where old grudges never die but are passed down through generations. His business is on the verge of bankruptcy, his wife leaves him, and his main competitor – a local thug with connections at the hospital – smoothly monopolizes the entire “death market.” Crippled by debt and tormented by the painful loss of his parents, Bobkata is willing to do anything to save himself. In his desperation, he comes up with an absurd plan: giving dance lessons at a retirement home to recruit clients for his prepaid funeral services.

The film recounts the glorious half a century of an important festival not only in the history of the Italian theatre, but also cultural policy, public goods, instances of participation, management in the cultural sense of the public space.

In the modern history of Latin America, a direct line runs from the anti-Communist repression of the 1970s to the fight against land defenders and human rights activists today.