Ungrateful Beings
- Fiction Feature Film
- 110'
- 2025
- Czechia, Slovenia, Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, France
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David takes his two children on holiday to the Adriatic to save their fractured bilingual family. His daughter Klara, struggling with an eating disorder, falls in love with a local boy, Denis. When Denis is accused of murder, they rush back home. Klára’s condition spirals, landing her in hospital. The only thing uniting her parents is their need to save her.
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Ungrateful Beings is a story of a family in crisis, torn apart by guilt and self-denial. At its core, the film asks: how far are parents willing to go to save their daughter from an eating disorder, e
Ungrateful Beings is a story of a family in crisis, torn apart by guilt and self-denial. At its core, the film asks: how far are parents willing to go to save their daughter from an eating disorder, even if it means crossing the boundaries between truth and lies, care and manipulation? Through this intimate drama, the film explores how adults unconsciously project their own dysfunctions and unresolved wounds onto their children, unable to face their own failures.
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Scenarij ove obiteljske drame supotpisuju Olmo Omerzu, koji će ga ujedno i režirati te Nebojša Pop Tasić, svestrani dramaturg, dramatičar, scenarist, glazbenik i izvođač i Kateřina Jandáčková. U priči, čiji su glavni protagonisti David, nedavno razvedeni otac, njegova kći Klara koja boluje od anoreksije, sin Teo, njihova majka Laura i Denis, mladić u kojeg se Klara zaljubi tijekom ljetovanja, pratimo kompleksnost obiteljskih odnosa, prožetih „dobronamjernim“ lažima.
Scenarij je iznimno zanimljiv i životan te problematizira odrastanje, kao i sve ono na što su spremni roditelji kako bi zaštitili djecu. Također, on je zanatski kvalitetno, vješto i nadasve „pitko“ napisan. Ovdje valja svakako napomenuti da će se sam film snimati i u Hrvatskoj, gdje se odvijaju scene ljetovanja. Režijska koncepcija je iznimno dobro napisana i upućuje na to da je Omerzu pažljivo promislio o svim segmentima koji će činiti ovaj film, poput odnosa u obitelji, načina na koji djeca uče obrasce ponašanja od roditelja, odnosa prema tijelu i sl. Važno je spomenuti da će se dio snimanja realizirati u Hrvatskoj te da je planirana potrošnja značajno veća od predložene potpore. Isto tako u proizvodnji će uz jednu od bitnijih uloga, biti uključen veći broj autora i djelatnika.
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