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)
Contacts
CinemArt, a.s.
Národní 60/28, 111 21, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 224 949 110
E-mail: hruskova@cinemart.cz
Cercamon
PO Box 417 207, 00000, Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Phone: +971 566 063 824
E-mail: hello@cercamon.biz
Guests

Jiří Konečný
Producer

Eliška Křenková
Actress

Martin Pechlát
Actor

Olmo Omerzu
Film Director

Monika Omerzu Midriaková
Music Composer

Lenka Vlasáková
Actress

Jana Vlčková
Film Editor

Daniel Němec
Sound Designer

Petr Pýcha
Screenwriter

Eva Kovářová
Production Manager

Tomáš Mrvík
Actor

Šimon Holý
Film Director, Producer

Antonín Šilar
Architect

Jan František Uher
Actor

Rok Biček
Film Director

Natalia Grzegorzek
Producer

Lukáš Milota
Director of Photography

Ivan Ostrochovský
Co-producer

Karina Korenblum
Sales Agent