The photo is not available.

Jaroslav Vojtek (Slovakia)

Jaroslav Vojtek (born 1968, Žilina, Slovakia) graduated in documentary direction from Bratislava’s Academy of Music and Performing Arts (VŠMU). He debuted in 1993 with the short documentary Blind Faith (Slepá viera), a portrait of a gravedigger loyal to socialist ideals. His short feature film Dreamers (Rojkovia) is part of the feature-length short-story project The Magnificent Six (Šest statečných), screened at the Karlovy Vary IFF in 2000. His feature-length documentary about an originally Slovak family that returns from Kazakhstan back to Slovakia Here We Are (My Zdes!) was premiered in Karlovy Vary in 2005.
Like he says, he was attracted to documentary filmmaking by the human life-story. For him, a man is a universe whose unexplored corners he wants to discover. He is fascinated by relationships, the ability to sacrifice, solidarity, love as well as hate. He admits that making a documentary film can also serve as a kind of a self-therapy. He does not consider the situation of production and distribution of documentary films in Slovakia as lucky, hoping, however, for a change for the better. He believes that public service televisions should focus their broadcasting schemes on contemporary people and their sorrows and joys rather than on the news from the lives of dinosaurs and Egyptian Pharaos. His film Hranica/Border was awarded the Best Documentary of Eastern Europe at IDFF Jihlava 2009.

Filmography

  • Blazonko
    SK, 2003
  • Akvárium
    SK, 2001
  • Nechcené deti
    SK, 2001
  • Vtedy na východe
    SK, 2000
  • Kameň po kameni
    SK, 1997
  • Martin Pollack: Looking into the Abyss
    2024
  • The Third End of the Stick
    2023
  • The Shift
    2022
  • Paradise on Earth
    2019
  • Pánovi učiteľovi
    2013
  • The Gypsy Vote
    2012
  • Deti o deťoch
    2011
  • Z kola ven - Co za tím je?
    2010
  • Hranica
    2007
  • My Zdes!
    2005
  • Nepozná ona mňa, ani ja ju...
    1996
  • Strom
    1995
  • Vlasy II
    1995
  • Keby bol hlas zvonu čarovný
    1994
  • Slepá viera
    1993

DAFilms.com is powered by Doc Alliance, a creative partnership of 7 key European documentary film festivals. Our aim is to advance the documentary genre, support its diversity and promote quality creative documentary films.

Doc Alliance Members

Join to get regular updates on our film program:

By sending the registration for the Newsletter, I consent to receiving commercial communications through electronic means and to related personal data processing required for the purposes of sending the Newsletter of Doc-Air Distribution s.r.o. I confirm having read the Principles of Personal Data Processing, understanding the text and consenting to the same, while I acknowledge the rights specified herein, including, without limitation, the right to submit objections against direct marketing techniques.

Poslat svému Junioru

Zavřít