30 Years of Freedom Festival

5:00 p.m.

Opening ceremony with Masaryk University Rector Martin Bareš in attendance

5:15 p.m.

Tenkrát / screening of documentary film
Directed by Robert Sedláček and Radim Procházka, Czech Television, 1999, 101 min.

The film serves as the reconstruction of events between 17 November 1989 and the end of 1989 from the perspective of the main personalities associated with the Velvet Revolution. It paints the most complex picture so far of the events in Prague and all over the country and how they unfolded.

7:00 p.m.

Debate: November 1989 in national and international contexts
Guests: Zdena Mašínová, Kateřina Šimáčková, Jiří Černý, Petr Oslzlý, Milan Uhde

9:00 p.m.

Free to Rock / screening of documentary film
Directed by Jim Brown, USA, 2017, 60 min.

Documentary on the significance of rock music for the countries behind the Iron Curtain and its role in the fall of the Soviet communist empire; the screening is supported by the Embassy of the United States of America in Prague.

5:17 p.m.

Lantern march from náměstí Svobody to Kounicovy koleje

7:00 p.m.

Brněnský listopad / opening of exhibition in the foyer of the Scala University Cinema
Authors: Hana Voráčová and Tomáš Zapletal

Exhibition of period photos and documents from the Masaryk University Archive and the Archives of the Security Forces and private collections introducing the events in Brno in November 1989.

8:00 p.m.

Brněnský listopad / screening of documentary film
Authors: Jiří Voráč and Jiří Mikula, Masaryk University – Czech Television, 2019, 50 min.

Document containing footage from the archives of Czech Television and independent sources (Aleš Záboj, Jiří Krejčí, Vítězslav Kopřiva, Jiří Vanýsek ml.) on November 1989 in Brno and South Moravia, made for the festival and screened for the very first time.

9:00 p.m.

Debate: November 1989 in Brno
Guests: Zdenka Rusínová, Hana Holcnerová, Vojtěch Šimíček, Michal Přibáň, Břetislav Rychlík, Jaromír Volek

5:00 p.m.

100 studentských (r)evolucí – book launch  
Authors: Miroslav Vaněk et al., Academia, 2019

Written as part of a research project of the Institute for Contemporary Studies of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the book introduces the life stories of then-students in November 1989. Included in the project is a documentary entitled Mladí mladým. Mozaika revoluce (the Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences – Czech Television, 28 min.).

6:00 p.m.

Debate: From November 1989 to today
Guests: Anna Šabatová, Eliška Wagnerová, Karel Schwarzenberg, Josef Jařab, Petr Zeman, Miroslav Vaněk

8:30 p.m.

Moje svoboda / screening of documentary film
30+14 authors, Reflex – Czech Television, 2019, 49 min.

One-minute films on the topic of freedom. Celebrating the 30^th anniversary, the film is 30 minutes long and includes works by 30 authors. Its full version will be screened.

9:20 p.m.

Staříci / movie screening
Directed by Ondřej Provazník and Martin Dušek, endorfilm – Czech Television, 2019, 90 min.

“None is going to wipe their ass with freedom,” say an 80-year-old soldier and former political prisoner (played by Jiří Schmitzer) to his friend (played by Ladislav Mrkvička). Inspired by a true story, the movie reflects the issue of post-November justice and the prosecution of the crimes of the communist regime.