The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
The White Dove
When
Wed 8 Oct 2025
The titular dove is part of a flock of carrier pigeons released in northern France and bound for Germany. The bird loses its way and ends up in Prague where its fate depends on the film’s protagonist, a wheelchair-bound boy. Charting the relationship between the boy, an artist and the young German girl who owns the bird, this allegorical tale is a poetic vision of peace, freedom and friendship across Europe.
Released two years after Vláčil’s Venice Film Festival prizewinning short, Clouds of Glass, this was the director’s first feature-length film.
Preceded by Clouds of Glass František Vláčil (1958) 20 mins – Unclassified 15+. Vláčil’s poetic, nearly dialogue-free short concerns the love of flight shared by a boy and an old man.
Both films courtesy of the National Film Archive in Prague.
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