The TEFF festival combining film and other artistic media is back and opens with a phenomenal experimental documentary by a Slovak master. Directed by Mir Rem (Richard Müller: The Unknown, Love Under the Hood), the film loosely develops the theme of the book of the same name by Ales Palán and Jan Šíbík (who is hosting a photography workshop here this year) about the Šumava hermits.
The film's guides are twins František and Ondřej Klišík - eternal children living in a magical world with their pets. Together they share every day, every routine, every thought. Outwardly they act as mirrors of each other, but inside they are two completely different souls. Years of inseparable cohabitation are starting to go to their heads. Franta dreams of escape, of flying, of the world beyond the walls that bind him. Ondra remains rooted in what he knows well. Is it even possible to escape when the whole world wears your own face? The film won the hearts of the audience and the jury at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where it won the main prize.
Documentary
Czechia/Slovakia, 2025, 84 min
Directed by Miro Remo
Program change subject to change.
TEFF 2025 - all about the festival
PROGRAM
Wed 8 10
6pm Petra Beňová accompanied by pianist Marie Jírová
20:00 Opening Film: RATHER TO RISE IN DIVOCINE
Thu 9 10
16:30 Telegraph Short Films: DRINKING: Making the Indescribable & GOOD BOY from Slovakia
18:00 Mirroring Evil in Cinema - Martin Jiroušek
20:00 Film: I, Claude Monet
22:00 NIGHT CINEMA: The Matrix
Fri 10 10
16:00 Family Workshop: Make Your Own Kaleidoscope
18:00 Panel Debate: The Boundaries Between Documentary Film and Photography
20:00 Special Screening.telegraph.com/photography-workshop-fotim-mobile-with-jan-sibik">10:00 Photography Workshop "Photographing with Mobile" with Jan Šibík
17:00 Puppet Theatre SOUDRUŽKY S KROUŽKY
20:00 Preview: CONTINENTAL '25
22:00 Closing of TEFF25: DJ Weirdsky
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