A boy is born in a women's prison, starting the clock on a three-year countdown during which his mother, Lesya, must find a way of preventing her son from ending up in an orphanage
Orizzonti | World Premiere
SK – CZ – UA | 2021 | 93 min. | fiction
Director: Peter Kerekes
Story: Ivan Ostrochovský
Screenplay: Ivan Ostrochovský, Peter Kerekes
Cinematography: Martin Kollar
Editors: Martin Piga, Thomas Ernst
Music: Lucia Chuťková
Sound: Tobiáš Potočný
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Production company: Punkchart films (SK)
Co-production companies: Radio and Television Slovakia (SK), endorfilm (CZ), Arthouse Traffic (UA), Peter Kerekes (SK), Hypermarket Film (CZ)
Support: Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, Eurimages, Czech Film Fund, Ministry of Culture of Ukraine
Synopsis
Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa’s women’s correctional facilities. She has just given birth to her first child, and now she is entering a world populated only by women: inmates, nurses and wardens, women of all ages, wives and widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant women, and women with children. If not for the color of the uniform, it would sometimes be hard to tell who is who.
Screenings
Pass Holders:
09/01 19:45 Sala Casinò
09/01 22:00 Sala Volpi
09/02 14:00 PalaBiennale
09/02 14:15 Sala Darsena
09/03 09:15 Sala Casinò
09/03 11:00 Sala Volpi
09/03 14:15 Sala Casinò
09/03 17:00 Sala Volpi
Public:
09/02 14:00 PalaBiennale
09/02 14:15 Sala Darsena
Director
Peter Kerekes was born in Košice, Slovakia, and graduated from the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, earning a degree in film directing.
In 2003, he directed and produced his debut feature documentary, 66 Seasons, which became a festival hit and won several awards, including the Best Film Award at DocAviv.
His next feature documentary, Cooking History (2009), received the Prix Arte nomination for Best Documentary at the European Film Awards, among other plaudits.
Kerekes's 2013 feature documentary, Velvet Terrorists, co-directed by Pavol Pekarčík and Ivan Ostrochovský, won the FEDEORA Award at the Karlovy Vary IFF and celebrated its international premiere at the Berlinale Forum, winning the Tagesspiegel Readers’ Award.
Selected filmography
2021: Cenzorka - feature
2018: Baťa, první globalista - television documentary
2014: Slovensko 2.0 - feature omnibus (segment: Druhý pokus)
2013: Zamatoví teroristi - feature documentary
2009: Ako sa varia dejiny - feature documentary
2004: Über die Grenze - Fünf Ansichten von Nachbarn - feature omnibus (segment: Pomocníci)
2003: 66 sezón - feature documentary
1998: Ladomírske morytáty a legendy - mid-length documentary
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