2022 Ji.hlava documentary festival kicks off

This year’s edition of the Ji.hlava international festival of documentary films gets underway on Tuesday. Across six days it will show around 380 films, nearly 100 of which are receiving their world premiere. The opening film is The Eighth Day of the War by Oksana Moiseniuk, which looks at Ukrainian women in Czechia following Russia’s invasion of their country.

The 26th edition Czechia’s biggest documentary event takes place in the Vysočina town of Jihlava.