My Home

Director: Jiří Stejskal

Country: Czech Republic

Year of production: 2014

Duration: 84 min

Subject:

The citizen and the state
Human rights

Audience:

Students
Lawyers
Government officials
Employees of penitentiary system

Inclusive component:

Natasha Yurchenko used to live in a small village before developers decided to rebuild the area. Her family resisted the developments, and now they are trapped between the high-rise buildings. She wants to fight for her home, but conflicts surface in the family. How far will she go defending their home? A film portrait of five years in the life of one extraordinary family in today’s Ukraine.

director

Jiří Stejskal

completed his Bachelor's degree at the Tomáš Báťa University in Zlín. He continued his studies at the Baltic Film and Media School in Tallinn, where he received his Master's degree in Film Direction. Finally he returned to Zlín to finish his Master's degree in Editing & Sound in 2011. His short film Pit-Hole was one of the most highly praised Czech documentaries abroad in 2011. Later he edited several documentaries for Czech television.