The Visitors

Is it possible to find a home in the world's most northern city?

Návštěvníci
Czechia 2022
  • Czech
82 min.
Přístupný
  • This film is available until 31. 12. 2028 in these territories: Czechia.
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A young anthropologist, Zdenka, moves with her husband and three sons to Svalbard, Norway, to study how life is changing in polar regions. She has received a prestigious two-year grant to carry out extensive research on the impact of globalization on the inhabitants of the world's norther­nmost town, Longyearbyen. After falling in love with her new home, Zdenka discovers that more than icebergs and permafrost are vanishing in the Arctic. Through conducting interviews with residents, she begins to perceive how heterogeneous the small local community actually is, while also revealing tensions that lie beneath the surface. Zdenka then has to work out the extent to which she can get involved in the local community that she only originally intended to observe.

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Credits
Director: Veronika Lišková
Screenplay: Veronika Lišková
Cinematography: Vojtěch Vančura
Music: Jana Winderen, Jonatán Pastirčák aka Pjoni
Sound: Jakub Jurásek
Editing: Marek Šulík
Producer: Kristýna Michálek Květová, Martina Netíková
Co-production: Peter Kerekes
Cast: Zdenka Sokolíčková, Jakub Žárský
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  • This film is available until 31. 12. 2028 in these territories: Czechia.