Od marca do mája
MARCH TO MAY
Performance
A loving and undogmatic religious family that overcomes the challenges of everyday life in a down-to-earth way: Miša, Alžběta and Eliáš, three teenage siblings, in their own way, all move towards adulthood and away from the bond of family - first jobs, first dates, driver's licenses. Mother Romana and father Palko follow these developments, notice that they themselves are getting older and suddenly are able to announce the biggest news of all: mother is pregnant again.
Far from the big issues of world politics and foregoing dramatic escalations, Martin Pavol Repka's film focuses on that which is close to home and delves deep into a family cosmos representative of many families and yet unique in its own way - with its sibling rivalries and loyalties, rituals of faith and deep mutual bonds. Each family member seeks their own path and yet they are inseparably connected. Every modification has an impact on the whole, and in the slow-paced narrative rhythm even the smallest of changes are noticeable. A family film in the truest sense of the word.
Text: Susanne Stern
07.11.2024 | 17:30 | Weltspiegel Saal 2(original version with English and German subtitles)
08.11.2024 | 10:00 | Weltspiegel Großer Saal (original version with English and German subtitles)
Martin Pavol Repka
Tomáš Šťastný
Kryštof Blabla
Jan Tomšů
Zuzana Fialová, Jozef Abafi, Natália Fašánková, Jana Markovičová, Damián Humaj
Martin Pavol Repka - Martin Pavol Repka (1995, Bratislava, Slovakia) graduated from the Department of Directing at FAMU in Prague. Already in his student films, he mainly dealt with the theme of family and friendship. Repka‘s bachelor film Reaching River Distance (2021) was nominated for the Czech Directors and Screenwriters Association Award. The short film Dad (2022), which he co-directed with Ukrainian director Myra Klochko, competed at the 43rd Manaki Brothers IFF and was shown at the MFDF Ji.hlava. His first feature film, March to May, won an TRT award in the First Cut+ workshop at the Trieste festival in Italy. It had its world premiere at the 58th KVIFF in the Proxima Competition.
