Online screening + discussion: Snajka: Diary of Expectations

Watch Snajka: Diary of Expectations online for free! This film explores difficult questions of cultural differences and everyday racism and will be available from January 23. There will also be an online discussion.

The film is available here on our website until January 28 and you need a voucher to view it for free. Please email us at films@kinedok.net and we will send it to you.

SNAJKA: DIARY OF EXPECTATIONS (Tea Vidović Dalipi, 2023, Croatia, Italy, Kosovo, 75 min)

In the epistolary narrative, straddling between documentary and fiction, we meet Zahra and Maria — a pair of women who encounter each other in the 1970s while studying in Bucharest. Their incredibly close relationship is ruptured when Zahra decides to return to her native Iran in 1979, where a new political regime is established after the revolution. Hope and the promise of a freer society hang in the air, but it does not materialise. Likewise, Zahra never meets Maria again. They maintain their friendship only through intimate letters. The film tells this melancholic story using only archival footage, depicting two heroines entangled in the whirlwind of great history, from which escape seems possible only through memories.

The film is available in all KineDok countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia, and Hungary).

DISCUSSION: 27. 1., 7 PM (GMT+1)

Join a panel discussion (in English) on the topics from the film, that will be held on Monday on Facebook (@KineDok International) and our YouTube channel (@InstituteOfDocumentaryFilm). You can look forward to the director of the film Tea Vidović Dalipi, Petr Michal, Diana Groó and it will be moderated by Kateř Tureček.

Tea Vidović Dalipi Tea Vidović Dalipi is a sociologist, researcher of migrations and cultural identities and a debut director. She is an active member of civil society in Croatia, collaborating with numerous individuals, organisations and initiatives focusing on the protection of human rights and community activity. In her work she fosters interdisciplinarity and multiple perspectives. Her large desire to master the technique which would make it possible for her to share her views on migrations and the world turned into the production of the film Snajka: Diary of Expectations, which was filmed over a period of ten years.

Petr Michal Petr Michal graduated from Charles University in Prague and FAMU. He directed several short films such as The Good Anarchist Igor (2017) and Mikrotron (2019). Together with Vojtěch Dvořák he co-directed a short documentary about Jan Švankmajer (2018) which was awarded as The Best Documentary at the Night of Film Hopes Student Film Festival in 2019. Found by the One She Seeks (2022) is his first medium-length film. It is a winner of Czech Joy Award at IDFF Ji.hlava 2022 for Best Cinematography.

Diana Groó Diana Groó is a film director, scriptwriter, and producer. Her feature films A Miracle in Cracow and Vespa have received international awards, including recognition from UNICEF and the Cottbus Film Festival. Her documentary Regina(2013), voiced by Rachel Weisz, won the Lia Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival and was broadcast by BBC Four. It has been screened globally, including at UNESCO and the Library of Congress, and is part of Yad Vashem's Visual Center Collection. Diana leads the Film and Media Specialist Program at Metropolitan University Budapest. Her current projects, Dear Helen – Letter from the Last KZ and Recordings, are in production with Éclipse Film and Katapult Film.

Kateř Tureček (moderator) Kateř Tureček is mainly involved in documentary filmmaking, pedagogy and activism. They come from Kyjov in Slovakia and graduated from the Department of Documentary Filmmaking at FAMU in Prague. In their films they focus on taboo topics, the representation of authenticity and various formal approaches in documentary film. Kateř's current film is the mosaic LIDI (2023), the first Czech trans* film made from the perspective of a trans* person. In their films, they deal with themes such as personal identity (Why do I feel like a boy?, 2019), intimacy (Strip, 2015) or rethinking traditions (Tradition, 2017).