Completed - SLOVAKIAN - First film - 78 minutes
The story of 15-year-old Ela who is sent to a re-education centre. She yearns for love, but is not allowed to love.Despite all the restrictions, she decides to live her life to the full. However,life is not so much what we want but what we get to live. Sometimes it is suffering and when we hit rock
Year of production : 2013 Director(s) : Juraj LEHOTSKÝ Writer(s) : Juraj LEHOTSKÝ, Marek LEŠČÁK Cast : Michaela BENDULOVÁ, Robert ROTH Producer(s) : Ján MELIŠ (Artileria), Marko ŠKOP (Artileria), Pavel STRNAD (Negativ)
The girls are fourteen and fifteen years old and have already experienced more than most adults. Truancy, escapes from home, prostitution, drugs, life on the streets and misguided loves, even though they are still children. They have incomplete families and botched up lives. Re-education centres are full of them. Ela has a child’s face, but her body is very feminine despite her age. The first evening after her mother drives her to the re-education centre, she has to stand on an impromptu stage where she is subjected to the so-called public confession. We learn that she had a thirty-year-old boyfriend Roby who she met regularly and lived with when she ran away from home. Ela loves him, but she is not allowed to contact him. She decides to run away from the centre during the New Year’s Eve disco.
Country(ies) : SLOVAKIA, CZECH REPUBLIC
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Karlovy Vary IFF 2013 - East of the West - Competition (Special Mention of the Jury)