KineDok launches its new season at Vila Štvanice with Wishing on a Star

KineDok is entering its new season with a festive evening at Vila Štvanice on June 18. You can look forward to a screening of Peter Kerekes’ Wishing on a Star, a discussion with guests, an accompanying programme, and an informal get-together with refreshments.

05.05.2026
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The programme will begin at 6 PM with an informal get-together and light refreshments. At 7 PM, a discussion with Slovak director and producer Peter Kerekes and actress, voice actress, dubbing director and therapist Kateřina Petrová will follow, moderated by KineDok manager Juliana Moska and KineDok coordinator Walter Nagy.

After the discussion, we will screen Wishing on a Star, Peter Kerekes’ documentary comedy, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. The film takes you to Italy to meet Luciana, a charismatic fortune teller who uses astrology to help people find a new direction in love and in life.

Admission is free. The event is co-organised with the Bel Paese Italian language school. The entire programme will take place in Czech only, and the film will be screened with Czech subtitles.

WISHING ON A STAR (Peter Kerekes, 2025, Italy, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria)

Luciana, a native of Naples, is one of the most prominent advocates of so-called active astrology. She believes that destiny can be changed in a simple way — all you need to do is travel to a precisely determined place on your birthday. Her work resembles a combination of an esoteric strategy and a travel agency: while studying ephemerides and linking geographical coordinates. In a decaying castle, she welcomes clients who long for new love and hope. In his documentary comedy, Peter Kerekes follows their unusual journeys in search of happiness and the meaning of life with tenderness and gentle humour.

DISCUSSION GUESTS

Peter Kerekes

His first feature length film was the documentary "66 seasons" (2003). His film Velvet Terrorists (2013) - a documentary comedy of three protagonists who opposed the communist regime in Czechoslovakia - is a Slovakian-Czech-Croatian co-production which was co-directed by Pavol Pekarčík and Ivan Ostrochovský. The film was honored at several festivals, including the „Tagesspiegel audience prize“ at Berlin International Film Festival, 2014 and FEDEORA award the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2013. Kerekes also produced the omnibus documentary „Occupation 1968“ (2018)

Kateřina Petrová

Kateřina Petrová has been active in the arts since the age of 19 — first as an actress, later in dubbing, and currently also as a dubbing director. During her career, she has worked with several Prague theatres, including Divadlo za branou II., Divadlo ABC, and the National Theatre.

After completing a semester-long course in psychology and coaching at CTU in 2014, she also began developing a counselling and therapeutic practice focused on working with cards. Her work is based on the belief that everyone carries within themselves the answers to their life questions, but often cannot access them because of established patterns of behaviour and fears. Through working with cards, she seeks to help clients discover these answers and gain a deeper understanding of themselves.

Juliana Moska

Since March 2026, Juliana has been the KineDok Manager. She graduated from the Department of Documentary Filmmaking at FAMU and studied Media Studies at Metropolitan University Prague. She also spent part of her studies in Poland at the Łódź Film School, where she focused on fiction film directing. During her time in Poland, she completed an internship at the Czech Centre in Warsaw and collaborated with Komuna Warszawa theatre as a production coordinator, photographer, and creator of audiovisual content. Between 2019 and 2023, she worked at Czech Television, where she first completed an internship in the Acquired Programmes Department and later held positions in executive production, assistant directing, and programme scheduling assistance for the ČT2 and ČT art channels. After graduating, she was based in Brussels at an independent film and arts production company, contributing to the development of documentary projects focused on stories from the Congo region. From 2024 to 2025, she worked as an Executive Producer at Audioteka.CZ. She is the director of several short films.

Walter Nagy

Walter Nagy has collaborated with the Institute of Documentary Film in Prague since 2008. He first worked on East Silver Market, once the largest documentary film market in Central and Eastern Europe, held annually at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. He later coordinated the East Silver Caravan project focused on festival distribution. In 2023 he worked with Post Bellum – Memory of Nations on the Theatre of Memory of Nations project. He collaborates long-term with Ivona Remundová; together they created the podcast series True Story and the audio documentary Next Stop: Hlavák, which won the main award at Prix Bohemia 2023 in Olomouc. He also researches theatre history and collaborates with the Ji.hlava IDFF industry section on the Matchmaking Accelerator. He currently works as the KineDok coordinator.

KineDok is a project of the Institute of Documentary Film. This project is supported by Creative Europe MEDIA, Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, the Czech Audiovisual Fund and the Prague City Hall.

By attending the event, visitors give permission to have their person photographed and audiovisually recorded for the promotional purposes of the KineDok project.

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