Helena Třeštíková

Helena Třeštíková (b. 1949, Prague) studied direction at FAMU (1974). In late 1990 she co-founded the Film & Sociology Foundation and, in 1994, the Man and Time Foundation. She has been developing her real-time documentaries, shot over several years, since her college piece Live Water (1972). She has made over 40 documentaries, the majority concerning human relationships, social problems and women’s issues, among them The Sweet Century (1998 – Best Documentary at KVIFF) and Women at the Turn of the Century, including the portrait of a female junkie Trapped (2001 – Special Mention at KVIFF). Long-term series: Tell Me Something About Yourself (since 1989) and Marriage Etudes (1987–2006). Karlovy Vary has also screened the documentaries Marcela (2006), René (2008 – awarded the European Film Academy’s Prix Arte for Best European Documentary), Katka (2010) and Private Universe (2012).

48. MFF Karlovy Vary