Film Archive

Restore Point

Special Screenings 2023 / Bod obnovy / Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Poland, Serbia 2023

Synopsis

It’s the year 2041, and humanity has reached the point where it can cheat death. Anyone who dies an unnatural death has the right to be brought back to life. All you have to do is to create a backup of your personality – a restore point – at least every forty-eight hours. But there exists a movement of people who try to sabotage this concept. Agent Em finds herself drawn into a case that is not as simple as it first seemed and the consequences of which reach to the highest levels of politics. Director Robert Hloz’s feature film debut is a gripping tale, an extraordinarily inventive visual experience, and a polemic with the idea that technological progress is always a good thing.

Anna Kořínek

About the film

111 min / Color, DCP
European premiere
Director Robert Hloz / Screenplay Tomislav Čečka, Robert Hloz, Zdeněk Jecelín / Dir. of Photography Filip Marek / Music Jan Šléška / Sound Lukáš Ujčík, Samuel Jurkovič / Editor Jarosław Kamiński / Art Director Ondřej Lipenský / Producer Jan Kallista / Production FILM KOLEKTIV s.r.o. / Coproduction DNA Production, Film Produkcja, MALI BUDO / Cast Andrea Mohylová, Matěj Hádek, Václav Neužil, Milan Ondrík, Karel Dobrý, Agáta Kryštůfková, Katarzyna Zawadzka, Jan Vlasák, Iveta Dušková, Richard Stanke / Sales XYZ Films / Contact Gabriela Vágner / Distributor Bioscop (Magicbox a.s.)

About the director

Robert Hloz (1989, Brno, Czech Republic). Selected filmography: The Mill (2011, short), Numbers (2012, short), Liars (2015, short), Restore Point (2023).