Winter Flies

Directed by Olmo Omerzu

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.

 
 
  • Tomáš Mrvík, Jan František Uher, Eliška Křenková, Lenka Vlasáková, Martin Pechlát

  • Czech / 2018 / 85’

    Všechno bude

  • FICTION - Family Drama

  • Director Olmo Omerzu Screenwriter Petr Pýcha Cinematographer Lukáš Milota Editor Jana Vlčková Art Director Antonín Šilar Music Šimon Holý, Monika Midriaková, Paweł Szamburski Producer Jiří Konečný, endorfilm Coproducers Česká televize, Cvinger film, Koskino, Punkchart films A coproduction between Czech Republic / Slovenia / Poland & Slovak Republic

  • DCP | Colour | 5.1

  • Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2018 - Competition

    Toronto International Film Festival - Contemporary World Cinema

  • "Observant and wise about boys in puberty yet impish and carefree when necessary and never idealizing the cold and dreary countryside they travel through, Winter Flies is a lovely little film that’s as comfortable as an old sweater and almost as warm”
    THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

 
Winter Flies