A New Shift

The closure of the Paskov mine, 2017 - the tradition of coal mining in the Ostrava-Karviná district is becoming a thing of the past. The Nová šichta (New Shift) retraining program takes released miner Tomáš His from Baník football matches and Visací zámek concerts to object-oriented programming. New opportunities lead to changes in both his personal life and career. The sensitive portrait of the journey of an ordinary man through the labyrinth of the labor market, performance-oriented companies, and crumbling agglomerations shows the flip side of the process of human transformation as social engineering of the capitalist age, in which the media simulation of retraining permeates the soul and dignity of man. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)