Girl America

Viktor
Tauš

Viktor Tauš (1973, Czechia)
Selected Filmography: Eleanor Rigby from Lesser Town (1995), Canary (1999), Snowdrops and Aces After 25 Years (2008), Clowns (2013), Girl America (2024)

You return to the places where you grew up. You shake. You sweat. You swallow hard. Memories flood back – some vivid like colorful paintings, others like punches to the gut. An orphanage under communism. Foster homes. Juvenile detention. Then the Velvet Revolution – and a freedom you don’t know how to use. You fell a hundred times, but you got up a hundred times too. They didn’t break you. You had yourself – and hope. Hope that one day you’d escape to America, where your father is waiting.