Following the screening, there will be a conversation with:
Pavel Pokorný - Film Subject, Resilience
Matouš Horčička - Event Manager, One World Film Festival
Ondřej Kamenický - Director, One World Film Festival

The discussion will be moderated by
Holly Jonas - Network Program Director, Mongabay

About the film: Resilience
Directed by Tomáš Elšík 2025, 83 minutes, in Czech with English subtitles

Straddling the line between lyrical essay and environmental detective story, Resilience follows a couple who have learned to listen to the silence of the Czech countryside with extraordinary sensitivity.

Klára and her dogs search for people who are poisoning endangered birds of prey, while Pavel mows spring meadows by hand and restores wetlands damaged by drought and deforestation. They perceive the natural ecosystem as an integral part of themselves and believe that it makes sense to protect it, even if it seems like a futile struggle. In the slow rhythm of landscape changes, accompanied by the sounds of wind, birds, and music coming directly from the earth, this film, inspired by the ideas of cultural ecologist David Abram, asks whether it is still possible to restore the balance between humans and nature; a balance that is disappearing before our eyes more quickly than we are able to understand it.

Event Details:

Date/Time: March 26, 2026, at 7 pm

Location: The Burke Theatre at US Navy Memorial
701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004

Enter from the Plaza.
Closest Metro Station: Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter

Get Tickets at:
https://dceff.eventive.org/films/6990ba691b60857b575a9bbf

Presented by the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Curated by the One World Film Festival.