International Documentary Film Festival
April 19 to 26, 2026
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

Change My Mind (Velký vlastenecký výlet)

Robin Kvapil

Change My Mind

If you felt the war in Ukraine is a hoax, how far would you go for 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.

Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine 2025, '100

DIRECTOR: Robin Kvapil

CAMERA: Prokop Souček

MONTAGE: Libor Alexa

PRODUCERS: Jakub Drocár, Jakub Pinkava

PRODUCTION: Punk Film

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

BIDF (2026): Jury Award 
Cinematik IFF (2025): Audience award 
Ji.hlava 

Robin Kvapil

Robin Kvapil

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).

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