Hiška

The film's universe is inspired by the place where I grew up; a village with a strong dialect and even stronger rules about what is normal and what is not. What inspired me to make this film were my visits to my parents’ house. Even though I had moved out, my room remained the same: posters on the walls, collections of broken pens, a photo of me and my godmother on my Confirmation day, and a computer that no longer worked. I imagined what my life might have been like if I had not moved out, if I had just stayed and led my grown-up life in a room that looks like a museum of my childhood. Which could easily have been the case if I had not been lucky enough to leave. As a generation, we were promised the world, yet many cannot afford a place of their own. And so they must submit to the rules of the property owners – often their loving parents, who cannot draw the line between a child living in their childhood room and an adult trying to build a life in the same space. This hierarchy does not shape only the life of the young adult; it burdens the parents too. They could live the life that comes after parenting and explore their everyday hobbies, such as having a mariachi band. I wanted to make a film about the struggle of listening to one’s own quiet voice and reclaiming the right to define what a good life is when the world is very loud and sure about what it should look like.