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 globalisation on the inhabitants of the world‘s northernmost town, Longyearbyen. After falling in love with her new home, Zdenka discovers that more than icebergs and permafrost are vanishing in the Arctic. Through her interviews with the residents, she begins to perceive how heterogeneous the small local community actually is, while also revealing tensions that lie beneath the surface. Zdenka then has to work out the extent to which she can get involved in the local community that she only originally intended to observe.
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Director: Veronika Lišková
Producer: Kristýna Michálek Květová, Martina Netíková
Cinematographer: Vojtěch Vančura
Sound: Jakub Jurásek
Production
Cinémotif Films, in co-production with Ten Thousand Images, Peter Kerekes, Czech TV
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Awards
Best Czech Film at One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (2023)
Director
Veronika Lišková
Veronika Lišková graduated in cultural studies from Charles University, and screenwriting & dramatics from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She made some TV documentaries before completing a feature-length debut Daniel’s World, which premiered at the Berlinale festival in 2015. For several years Veronika headed the Ex Oriente Film Workshop at the Institute of Documentary Film and was employed as a curator and acquisition manager at DAFilms. She now cooperates with various documentary training schemes and media markets, and is working on her fiction debut The Year of the Widow.Selected Filmography
The Visitors (2022), Daniel’s World (2014) 
