Winter Flies
Section: Czech Films and TV Production
Director: Olmo Omerzu / Czech Republic, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia / 2018 / 85 min
Czech / English subtitles
Jiří Konečný
17:20 - 18:45
Golden Apple Cinema 2
Jiří Konečný
20:15 - 21:40
Golden Apple Cinema 3
Olmo
Omerzu
The director Olmo Omerzu was born in 1984 in Ljubljana. During his studies at FAMU in Prague he directed several short films and a 40-minute feature THE SECOND ACT (Druhé dejství). It tells a story of a couple that goes on a long overdue honeymoon only to discover it is too late. It was shown and awarded at several European festivals, and distributed in Czech, Slovak and Slovenian cinemas.
In 2011, Omerzu graduated from FAMU with his feature debut A NIGHT TOO YOUNG (Príliš mladá noc). A Czech-Slovenian co-production set in a small apartment in an even smaller Czech town explores the zone between childhood and adulthood. The film was distributed in Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia and Slovenia.
After the successful premiere in the Forum section of the 2012 Berlinale, the film was invited to numerous international festivals, winning several awards, including the Czech Film Critics’ Award for the Discovery of the Year.
In 2015, he finished his second feature FAMILY FILM (Rodinný film), a co-production of five countries with the support of Media and Eurimages. It tells a story of a husband and a wife who set sail across the ocean, leaving their two children to explore the freedom
of being home alone. The boat goes under, and so does the family. A dog, stuck on a desert island, is their only hope. The film premiered at San Sebastian IFF in New
Directors Competiton. It received the Award for Best Artistic Contribution at Tokio IFF and other awards.
A road movie about the friendship of boys, adventure, and freedom. Fourteen-year-old outsider Mára and his 12-year-old friend Hedua make their way to freedom. Mara steals a car and even manages to influence a young hitchhiker. Everyone is on the run on an adventure and enjoying a sudden freedom they may never experience again. Until the police nab Mara. The two police officers who interrogate him can't quite decide which parts of his story are real and what's fictional; sometimes it is difficult to distinguish reality from fantasy.
