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We Are Epicentres of
the Earthquake

Jsme epicentry zemětřesení

2020  /  42 min

Czech Republic

A poetic documentary road movie following a young engaged couple on a journey through the landscape of their childhood, confronting their shared future in the face of a planetary ecological crisis. An intimate observational documentary told on the edge of empty narration.

 

The earth is scorched; trees are dying; species are becoming extinct; rivers are drying up. Human interventions have thrown the ecosystem off balance. The irreversible changes will have
a devastating impact. A trip of a young urban couple to the country provides a base for a spontaneous poetic contemplation on dried-up landscape and mankind‘s environmental grief. Nature has ceased to be a relaxing place. Looking at nature can cause anguish. In this film about contradictions of ecological awareness, the ability to articulate such grief, be it through a prosaic statement or poem, meets the inability to let go off one‘s thoughts and feelings, to think outside the box and act on it.

 We Are Epicentres of the Earthquake was   official selected to: 

 – IDFF Ji.hlava 2020 

 – IFF Message to Man St. Petersburg 2021 
– Academia Film Olomouc 2021 

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Jsme epicentry zemětřesení – plakát,

direction               

Tomáš Hlaváček

story by                

Tomáš Hlaváček

story editor       

Alice Růžičková

photography     

David Ticháček

montage                

Varvara Šatunova

music         

Daniel Klag

sound               

Ondřej Rozum

production                        

Ondřej Šejnoha,

Kristýna Žďárská / FAMU

©2026 by Tomas Hlavacek / GUERILLA.film 

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