Island of Freedom
TITLE
Island of Freedom
DIRECTOR
Petr Januschka
COUNTRY
Czech Republic
YEAR
2022
DURATION
26′
GENRE
Fiction
Island of Freedom
A short film about love and freedom. It’s 1981 in communist Czechoslovakia and a young man surprisingly meets his childhood love Eva on board of a charter flight to Cuba. They immediately strike up a conversation and with every answer, with every glimpse or unintended touch, the old bond comes alive again. Little do they know, that soon, they will be facing what might be the most difficult decision of their lives.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Petr Januschka
He graduated with a bachelor's and then a master's degree in Theory and Practice of Audiovisual Production (specialization in scriptwriting and directing) at the Audiovisual Arts Studio at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, where he is currently continuing his PhD studies. During his studies in Zlín, he made the short films Eli, Eli (2016), the documentaries The Shapes of Things Past (2016) and How I Didn't Find America (2018), and co-directed the documentary The Department Store (2017) about Zlín's (and the last Czech) Prior, which had not yet undergone reconstruction. The short film Island of Freedom (2022) is part of his dissertation project. He is currently working on commercials for production companies Zeroin and IS Produkce.
- Director Petr Januschka
- Screenplay Petr Januschka
- Cinematography Filip Blažek
- Editing Josef Erla
- Cast Jiří Mádl, Judit Bárdos
- Producer/s Frantisek Horvát
- Production Company Ceská Televize
- Distributor/s
- Project Title Island of Freedom
- Project Type Fiction
- Completion Date February 1, 2022
- Country of origin Czech Republic
- Country of filming Czech Republic
- Language Czech, Slovak
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project Yes
Petr Januschka
He graduated with a bachelor's and then a master's degree in Theory and Practice of Audiovisual Production (specialization in scriptwriting and directing) at the Audiovisual Arts Studio at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, where he is currently continuing his PhD studies. During his studies in Zlín, he made the short films Eli, Eli (2016), the documentaries The Shapes of Things Past (2016) and How I Didn't Find America (2018), and co-directed the documentary The Department Store (2017) about Zlín's (and the last Czech) Prior, which had not yet undergone reconstruction. The short film Island of Freedom (2022) is part of his dissertation project. He is currently working on commercials for production companies Zeroin and IS Produkce.
Tirana International Film Festival
Student Fiction Competition, 2022
