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films

A New Shift

documentary feature
Detail

Tomas lives in the industrial Ostrava. His peaceful life is disrupted by the closure of the Paskov mine, where he has worked over 20 years. Tomas is forced to radically change his life. After completing a tough programming course, he discovers that the ability to write a working code is not enough. Far more difficult is to sell oneself on the job market. Suddenly, a positive answer comes up and Tomas joins an IT company as a programmer. Now, he is sitting in an air-conditioned office in front of computer screen, writing emails to the colleagues sitting next to him. Meetings, briefings, brainstormings. It´s time to ask an unpleasant question. What has he lost?

year

2020

director

Jindřich Andrš

screenplay

Jindřich Andrš

countries

CZ

Tomas lives in the industrial Ostrava. His peaceful life is disrupted by the closure of the Paskov mine, where he has worked over 20 years. Tomas is forced to radically change his life. After completing a tough programming course, he discovers that the ability to write a working code is not enough. Far more difficult is to sell oneself on the job market. Suddenly, a positive answer comes up and Tomas joins an IT company as a programmer. Now, he is sitting in an air-conditioned office in front of computer screen, writing emails to the colleagues sitting next to him. Meetings, briefings, brainstormings. It´s time to ask an unpleasant question. What has he lost?

crew

producers Miloš Lochman
Karel Chvojka
Augustina Micková
production company moloko film
co-producers Česká televize
Bystrouška
FAMU
director of photography Tomáš Frkal
editor Lukáš Janičík
sound Šimon Hermann
music Eliška Cílková