The Visitors

The film „The Visitors“ will be part of the main program of the „One World“ festival. The screening will take place on November 7 at 7:00 p.m. at VŠMU cinema hall.

The Visitors / Veronika Lišková / Czech Republic, Norway, Slovakia 2022 / 83 min. – A young anthropologist, Zdenka, moves with her husband and three sons to Svalbard, Norway, to study how life is changing in polar regions. She has received a prestigious two-year grant to carry out extensive research on the impact of globalization on the inhabitants of the world’s northernmost town, Longyearbyen. After falling in love with her new home, Zdenka discovers that not only are the icebergs and permafrost vanishing in the Arctic. Through conducting interviews with residents, she begins to perceive how heterogeneous the small local community actually is, while also revealing the tensions that lie beneath the surface. Zdenka then has to work out the extent to which she can become involved in the local community that she only originally intended to observe.

Language: Norwegian, English, Czech

Subtitles: English

Topic: Slovakia and the Czech Republic for human rights

The screening of this film is inclusive. The film includes special subtitles and audio commentary through headphones – the screening can also be attended by people with hearing and visual impairments.