JAKUB back in cinemas – premiere on 5 November at Kino Pilotů, Prague
Jana Ševčíková’s documentary Jakub (1992) returns to cinemas in a digitally remastered version. The gala premiere takes place on Thursday 5 November at Kino Pilotů in Prague with the director in attendance. The film is released by Pilot Film.
An ethnographic and social study of the lives of Rusyns in Romania’s Maramureș mountains and in the former Sudetenland in western Bohemia, Jakub was shot over five years, from the last years of communism to the period after November 1989. Music by Alan Vitouš.
i/o post digitised and remastered the picture from the original 16mm negative; sound remastering by Pavel Dvořák. The remastered version screened at IDFA 2024 (Dead Angle: Borders) and Ji.hlava IDFF 2025.