Cultural Front

War. Day 426. Petro and Vanda, a young couple of actors from Kharkiv, who have traveled to Prague with their theater group to showcase a testimony of Russian aggression. Representing their country on the cultural front, Petro was granted a special exemption, allowing him to leave Ukraine for a few days, despite being a man in a nation under attack. While Vanda is resolute about joining the armed forces when they return home, Petro is starting to realize that this might be his only chance to escape.

Jindřich Andrš (1994) studied documentary filmmaking at FAMU and film theory at Charles University and Edinburgh Napier University. His feature documentary debut A New Shift (2020), an intimate time-lapse portrait of a laid-off miner who decides to retrain as a programmer, won numerous jury and audience awards (DOK Leipzig, FIPADOC, IDFF Jihlava, Czech Film Critics’ Awards, longlisted for European Film Awards and others). As a producer he completed the internationally successful short film Pripyat Piano ­– a "documentary concert" from Chernobyl. Cultural Front is his fiction short debut.