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If only we can learn

to work with the waves of images

breaking over us,

perhaps we shall find a new

and dignified way of existing.

If we all work together

to engage with the memories of others.

Vilém Flusser

Production

Jan Krása

Research and assistance

during filming 1993-2005

Michaela Valentová

Research and assistance

during filming 2007-2008

Ruth Jochanan Weiniger

Cooperation on the animated fílm made by children

from the Jedlička Institute

in Liberec

Jessica Langford

Image post-production

Cinemagic

Vladimír Žán

Dramaturgy

Daniela Fischerová

Hana Jemelíková

Veronika Sobková

Music composed

and adapted

from J. S. Bach

by

Jiří Strohner

Sound mix

Petr Šoltys

Petr Lenděl

Edited by

Tomáš Škrdlant

Camera

1993 František Chmela

1996-2000 Filip Havelka

2001-2008 Tomáš Škrdlant

Screenplay and directed by

Tomáš Škrdlant

This film was made

with the support of

the Czech Republic State Fund

for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography

Czech Television

2009

The Unwelcome

95'

20 years in the lives of people rejected by their families and society

I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to film over time fragments from the lives

of a group of people from their childhood to maturity. These people differ from

the majority in that their disabilities are more visible. For that reason they were pushed to the margins of society, but they managed to return.Their stories are our own stories.

Documentary film is another form of memory:

It filters reality, it leaves things out, it fragments, forgets,

sometimes it gets things wrong, it makes things up,

it jumps in time,

but it does bring various realities together, not chronologically,

but because of their similarities or their contradictions.

In that way it works like our thought processes.

Sometimes we turn to memory (or to film)

with the question:

How can I understand my fate?

My lot.

My life story.

Perhaps one thing that can help is to look into the fates of others.

Tomáš Škrdlant