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This documentary film on blind children is a sensitive guest for our common values of life and enables us to glance at the secluded world of the blind.In this documentary we can see spontaneous unexpected interest of the blind children in photography, the way they take photos as well as the results of their work. Above all, the film shows the importance of this activity for the children. It captures their life in the bording school, their contact with nature, lots of interviews and other interaction with surrounding world and thus tries to get us tuned to their intensive, rich and fulfilled life. Even though it is diffucult and demanding they bear their fate quietly and often much better than we do.
SD | 53´ | © 1996
director(s): Miroslav Janek
producer(s): Czech Television
scriptwriter(s): D.Horníčková
director of photography: M.Janek
rights available: TV, Video
original language: Czech
other data: Festival Awards: Ex aequo The best documentary & Prize of Ecumenical Jury International Film Festival Karlovy Vary 1997 Ex aequo Golden Dove in category Documentary & Don Quixote Prize (FICC) & MDR Film Prize & Prize of the Youth Jury of Leipzig International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 1997 Main Prize in category The best international documentary film International Festival of Documentary Films Its All True, Sao Paulo 1998