Czech Republic, 2025, 100 min., Czech with English and Bulgarian subtitles, dir. Robin Kvapil
If you felt the war in Ukraine was a hoax, how far would you go for the truth? In the documentary feature, CHANGE MY MIND, director Robin Kvapil takes three Czechs, each sympathetic to Putin’s Russia, and they embark on a journey for truth, straight into a war zone. It began with a public casting call: “Do you think the war in Ukraine is a hoax? That the media is lying about the number of casualties and the consequences of the ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine? Come to a casting and become a hero in a new film.” Sixty people responded and three selected participants, Nikola, Ivo and Petra, all of whom sympathize with Putin’s Russia, traveled with director Robin Kvapil and his film crew to Ukraine to pull back the curtain of propaganda and lies, and witness the truth of war.
Screenwriter:
DOP: Prokop Souček
Music: Martin Taube
Production: Jakub Pinkava, Jakub Drocár, Punk Film, s.r.o
Director’s Biography:
Robin Kvapil (*1982) is a graduate of theatre directing at JAMU and the Department of Documentary Film at FAMU. His feature debut was a comedy about Brno’s genius loci, Everything Will Be Fine (2017), and his documentary debut was a film reportage from Michal Horáček’s presidential campaign, We Can Do Better (co-directed by Radim Procházka, 2018).