Collaboration between Chytilová and Polívka, who co-wrote the screenplay and played the protagonist, The Inheritance… is a politically incorrect comedy as well as a priceless record of the country’s transition to cutthroat capitalism, easy money, and the nouveau riche.
Doclisboa wants to question the present of film, bringing along its history and assuming cinema as a mode of freedom. By refusing the categorization of film practice, it searches for the new problematics that cinematic image implies, in its multiple ways of engagement with the contemporary.
Doclisboa tries to be a place to imagine reality through new modes of perception, reflection, and possible new forms of action.
