The immersive Czech film “Up Again,” screening in its world premiere at the Ji.hlava docu fest, starts in darkness as the unmistakable sound of ice skates scraping at high speed fills the cinema. Director Eliska Cilkova Andrsova says it’s a motif she returns to again and again throughout her three-year chronicle of the rise of […]
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