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‘Wasteland Chronicles,’ About Toxic Dump Sites in Slovakia, Wins at Ji.hlava Doc Festival: ‘What Happens to the Environment Affects Us All’
‘Wasteland Chronicles,’ about toxic dump sites in Slovakia, wins most promising European project award at Ji.hlava Doc Festival.
“Wasteland Chronicles,” directed by Viera Čákanyová, Barbora Sliepková and Lucia Kašová, has received the New Visions Award at Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival for the most promising European project. The upcoming hybrid documentary, produced by Anna Mach Rumanová and Martina Netíková for Slovakia’s Filmsomnia and Czech Republic’s Cinémotif Films, is now in production, with the premiere set for spring of 2026. “It’s not just some ‘local story.’ People in our governments, whether it’s European Union or the entire world, just don’t want to take responsibility for these things,” says the director, with Rumanová adding: “What happens to the environment affects us all.
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