Where to watch Batalives (2018)

Story

In the 1920s, two Czechoslovak entrepreneurs launched an ambitious plan to build entire cities around their shoe manufacturing business. Across decades, around fifty such towns emerged worldwide, each designed with a distinctive social and architectural vision. Today, only a handful survive. This documentary visits these remaining cities—in the Czech Republic, Croatia, India, Brazil, and the Netherlands—to meet the people who live there and trace how the founders' original dream has transformed nearly a century later.

Why watch

• Explores lesser-known industrial cities across five countries with unique histories
• Documentary format offers real stories from residents of these distinctive communities
• Directed by Petr Babinec and Karolína Zalabáková with commentary by Martin Siničák

Good for: Viewers interested in industrial history, urban planning, and international documentary cinema.