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# Czech Fund Backs 16 Documentaries, From Gaza to Svalbard
- URL: https://scrolletta.com/2026/09/23/czech-audiovisual-fund-documentaries-gaza-svalbard/
- Published: 2026-09-23T07:10:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-25T06:37:26.000Z
- Description: The Czech Audiovisual Fund gives development money to 16 of 45 documentary projects, from Israeli soldiers in Gaza to Svalbard's Russian minority.
- Author: Scrolletta Staff
- Tags: Money, Czech Audiovisual Fund, Assaf Lapid, Tereza Šimíková, Adéla Komrzý, HBO, #pool-2026-09-23, #ai-generated

The television works council of the Czech Audiovisual Fund awards 10,515,000 koruna (roughly $500,000) in development support to 16 documentary projects out of 45 applications, a success rate of about 36%, against 30,065,000 koruna (\~$1.4 million) requested. Among them are Assaf Lapid's "Ve věci přihlížení", a Czech-German coproduction built on interviews with Israeli soldiers who served in Gaza; Tereza Šimíková's "Arctic Empire", about the Russian minority on Svalbard, with three Scandinavian producing partners; Adéla Komrzý's "Bertha", on Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel; and "Ticho a hluk", a seven-part series of 40-minute portraits whose application carries a confirmation of interest from HBO. Thirteen more projects scored above 70 points and got nothing.

**Primary**: [Czech Audiovisual Fund, evaluation of call 2026-B-1-3-34, 23 September 2026](https://sfa.gov.cz/data/article/2026/09/Hodnoceni-2026-B-1-3-34-Kompletni-vyvoj-dokumentarniho-dila.pdf?ref=scrolletta.com), [Czech Audiovisual Fund announcement, 23 September 2026](https://sfa.gov.cz/aktuality/2026/925?ref=scrolletta.com)