22-04-2012

FNE at FINALE Plzen: The House

By FNE Staff

    {mosimage}PLZEN: Following its recent Best Film win at the Slovak national The Sun in a Net awards, The House by Slovak director/writer Zuzana Liova screens in the main competition of the 25th FINALE festival of Czech films.

    Based on an award-winning script by Liova, The House was shot in Slovakia in 2010. House (Dom) was awarded at Cannes with the Krzyzstof Kieslowsky Tvp Award 2007 for the best Central European script. Among other awards it also won the Hartley Merrill International Screenwriting Prize (2007) for the best national script.

    {mosimage}The film tells the story of a family that tries to repair damaged relationships by building a house, highlighting a generational conflict between father and daughter in the post-communist society.

    The film was produced by Czech production companies Fog'n'Desire Films s.r.o (www.fogndesirefilms.cz) and Samastinor a.s. and Slovak production company Sokol-Kollar LLC. The partners are Czech public television Ceska Televize (www.ceskatelevize.cz) and Slovak public television Slovenska Televizia (www.stv.sk). The film was budgeted at 1.4 million euros and was originally to be coproduced by a Polish partner, who stepped out of the production.

    Contacts

    Fog'n'Desire Films s.r.o.
    Voroněžská 24, Praha 10, CZ-101 00, Czech Republic
    Michal Kollár, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
    Viktor Tauš, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

    Sokol Kollar .www.kollarfilm.com

    Šulekova 1178/32 81103 Bratislava. Tel: 00421 2 54430127