Film Archive

Winter Flies

Official Selection - Competition 2018 / Všechno bude / Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Slovak Republic 2018

Mischievously self-assured Mára and somewhat eccentric Heduš set out into the frozen wastes in search of adventure – by car, naturally. After all, Mára’s turning fifteen soon. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in winter, and a story – before it ends at the police station – that tells of the elusive bond of boyhood friendship and the irrepressible desire to experience something, even if you don't exactly know what.

Synopsis

Winter. Police interrogate 14-year-old Mára at the station after he is caught behind the wheel far across country from where he lives. He and somewhat eccentric Heduš had set out for the frozen landscape down south to seek adventure, but the mischievous breeziness with which Mára gives his story, and his concealment of the details of the trip, gradually strip his statement of credibility… With uncommon directorial playfulness, Olmo Omerzu leads his central pair of young nonprofessional actors through the expanding narrative, in which a variety of detours arise with the same elegant spontaneity as they later disappear. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in winter, telling a story of boyhood friendship and the irrepressible desire to experience something, even if you don’t exactly know what.

Martin Horyna

About the film

85 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Olmo Omerzu / Screenplay Petr Pýcha / Dir. of Photography Lukáš Milota / Music Šimon Holý, Monika Midriaková, Paweł Szamburski / Editor Jana Vlčková / Art Director Antonín Šilar / Producer Jiří Konečný / Production endorfilm / Coproduction Česká televize, Cvinger film, Koskino, Punkchart films / Cast Tomáš Mrvík, Jan František Uher, Eliška Křenková, Lenka Vlasáková, Martin Pechlát / Sales Cercamon / Distributor CinemArt, a.s.

About the director

Olmo Omerzu (b. 1984, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia). Selected filmography: A Night Too Young (2012, medium-length), Fortress (2013, short), Family Film (2016)