HEAVEN

NEBE

By Tomáš ETZLER, Adéla ŠPALJOVÁ

MIMESIS FILM - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, CZECH REPUBLIC / PROD

Documentary - Completed 2021


Festivals
& Awards

Ji.hlava IDFF 2021
Czech joy
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • CZECH REPUBLIC, CHINA
    • Languages
    • CZECH, CHINESE, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 71 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Tomáš ETZLER, Adéla ŠPALJOVÁ
    • Writer(s)
    • Tomáš ETZLER
    • Producer(s)
    • Jan MACOLA (MIMESIS FILM)
    • Synopsis
    • Heaven is a tale of an orphanage in a rural China, combined with a personal testimony of an award-winning journalist Tomas Etzler. The raw reality of daily life which Tomas encountered as a Beijing based producer for CNN and a Czech TV correspondent during his seven years in China contrasts sharply with a microcosm of kindness and unconditional love he discovered in a semi-legal orphanage for handicapped children in Chinese countryside. With working conditions for journalists and filmmakers deteriorating rapidly in China, Heaven provides an uncommon and very hard to obtain glimpse into 21st century China. It also indirectly contributes to a global debate about values and human right in the increasingly divided world.