The organizers of the Unknown Country decided on this change a month before the start of the twelve-day event, which they launched now on Monday. “We did not think for a moment that we would not organize the festival. We are moving documents, interesting interviews and another program to the social network Facebook and to our website Unknown Countries. We believe that people will find us. If we can’t go into the world, we will get the world to our home, “said Horký.
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Moving the festival from the real environment to the Internet means more work for the organizers, but it also opens up other possibilities for them. “In recent years, in addition to the two of us, eight other people have taken part in organizing the festival. Four times this year. We believe that all the efforts we put into this action will make sense. And we will probably reach more people. Maybe it will be such an interesting experience for us that already in 2021 we will combine the real environment of Zlín with the Internet one, “suggested Náplava.
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This year’s motto is the slogan “The world is spinning COVID neCOVID!”. The central photo of the festival is a young boy with a veil on his face. “The photo was taken in Lesotho years before the covid, but now we find it right. It was photographed by Petr Juračka. He is a Lesotho herder who has a veil not because of an illness, but because of the dry frosts prevailing in the mountains, “Náplava explained.
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The festival is divided into several sections. The main one is the Traveler’s Cinema. “Specially negotiated films will run on Facebook and on our website for some time, such as Jana Počtová’s film K2: My Own Journey about Klára Poláčková-Kolouchová’s climbing ascent or Jan Žůrek’s film Connection about the biggest female highliner project, where eight girls from France, Bohemia and Canada decides to tighten a half-kilometer-long highline strap between two rock towers in the desert of the US state of Utah and walk on it, “said Horký.
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The next part are video interviews with Czech adventurers and travelers. “We will start an unpublished interview with Miloslav Stingl, who died this year. Further interviews will be with the writer and pilgrim Ladislav Zibura, climber Klára Kolouchová, the best Czech highliner Anča Kuchařová, “Horký listed some.
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The festival offers eighteen hours of film shots
Videophones for Czechs living in the world will be interesting. “Did you suspect that there was a recent epidemic in India with a mortality rate of 75 percent? That in Mongolia the number of deaths per covid is zero? That Sri Lanka has had a total lockdown since March? ”Petr Horký suggested the topics of video calls.
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The total footage of the specially filmed and produced festival program is 595 minutes, ie less than ten hours. “To this must be added another eight hours of films. In total, we have prepared eighteen hours of travel shots and interesting meetings. We will communicate in real time with people on four continents, “added Náplava.
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