Hana Novakova , a documentarian and ethnozoologist, says she first became obsessed — her word — with the moose when a remarkable event transpired in the Czech Republic.

“It all started in 2003 when I first heard the story of the unbelievable spontaneous return of the moose population to my homeland, the Czech Republic, after 500 years of them being extinct here,” she tells Variety .

Five years later, while studying at Prague’s venerated FAMU film school, her interest hadn’t lessened a bit — leading her, after a tortuous but relentless trek, to this week’s world premiere of “Amoosed” in the Ji.hlava doc fest’s Czech Joy section.

Determination was indeed needed: funders were not too receptive to her pitch, Novakova says, and COVID lockdowns were on the horizon, preventing her from film

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