World Premiere
A woman and her teen daughter live in a small dead end city where both women are trying to break out of their miserable circumstances. Two troubled souls navigate their respective relationships with men, money, and future prospects in a place where few solutions exist and money problems just exacerbate already difficult relations. This is a gritty film that makes us feel deep empathy for it’s characters, desperate people with few options making bad decisions. It’s beautifully made and the cinematography is quite fresh; artfully painting with colour and light to magnify the contrast of the story’s Eastern European neighbourhoods. Terrific performances capture their internal and external conflicts that will most likely strike a chord as we become immersed in their banal, troubled lives.
Community Partner
Tamara Kotrbová, Marika Malá, Jakub Kalvoda, Jana Tomečková, Jan Valeš
Czech Republic
2023
In Czech with English subtitles
Indigenous & Community Access
Credits
Producer
Markéta Plšková
Screenwriter
Emma Marková
Cinematography
Adam Faltus
Editor
Danuše Hladiková
Art Director
Eva Fuksová, Polina Selivanova
Director
Emma Marková
Emma Marková has a bachelor’s degree in the field of Theory and practice of Audiovisual Production (Specializing in directing and screenwriting) at Tomas Bata university in Zlin. She wrote and directed multiple short films before and during her studies at university, with the culmination of her bachelor studies being the short film Far From the Tree. Outside university she focuses on shooting small commercials and mostly music videos.
Filmography: Falling Apart (2021); Words and Words (2021); For Life or Death (2020)