Jana Ševčíková
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 22, 1953
- Place of birth
- Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography
With films that reflect on life in contemporary Eastern Europe, Czech filmmaker Jana Ševcíková has distinguished herself as a practitioner of poetic documentary. A graduate of the Prague Film Academy, her thesis film, Piemule (1984), offers a frank examination of Czech émigrés in Romania during the final years of Ceausecu‘s totaltitarian regime. She has produced films independently, such as Jakub (1992), and received state funding from the Czech Ministry of Culture. Her films have been shown at festivals in Berlin, Strasbourg, Karlovy Vary and Cracow. Praised throughout Europe, Ševčíková‘s intimately crafted works challenge the distanced conventions of ethnographic filmmaking.
Movies with Jana Ševčíková
Movies directed by Jana Ševčíková
- Jakub 1992 · ★ 7.0
- The Old Believers 2002 · ★ 6.4
- The Rite of Spring 2002 · ★ 8.0
- Lean A Ladder Against Heaven 2014
- Those Who Dance in the Dark 2022
- Gyumri 2008
- Piemule 2026
- Worldly Children 1981
- Tulakóna 1986