Jana Ševčíková Movies

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's...

This film came into being on a farm in the village of Hakushu, Min Tanaka's home. Min Tanaka is a very distinctive personality of Japanese...

At his parsonage over the Tatra Mountains, Marian Kuffa readily takes care of more than 200 people in need. This unostentatious movie is not just a...

In 1988, an earthquake killed at least 25.000 people in the Armenian city of Gyumri, a third of them children. Jana...

Debut film.

The award-winning Old Believers (2001), made over a period of five years, documents the life of a strongly religious community in the Danube Delta...

“Try to describe what it's like to see,” one of the blind actors in Jana Ševčíková's documentary urges the film...

Jakub presents an extensive ethnographical-sociological study of the life of the Ruthenians, filmed in the Maramuresh mountains in the north of...

Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog.

Jakub, The Old Believers, and Piemule are three documentaries about forgotten people by director Jana Sevciková. All three are distributed on...