Veronika Lišková | Czech Republic, 2022, 83'
A young anthropologist, Zdenka, moves with her family to Svalbard, Norway, to study how life is changing in the polar regions. After falling in love with her new home, she discovers that plenty more than icebergs and permafrost are vanishing in the Arctic. She has to work out to what extent she can get involved in the local community that she only originally intended to observe.
Veronika graduated in cultural studies from Charles University and screenwriting and dramatics from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She made a few TV documentaries before completing a feature-length debut entitled “Daniel’s World” 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 fictional debut “The Year of the Widow”.
