Merely Mary Ann

C H R Y S A L I S

D I S T A N C E Distance. How far are we able to go, when the mood is thickening? Distance. How far apart are we able to be and yet still be as close as possible? Distance. One round and you are out.

Flow The River is looking for a unknown offender, who is playing with her. Not by a accident, it leads her to the corrupted police officer. The investigation is getting tangled. The River's craziness escalates until she passes away. After the new "old garniture" arrival, the River comes back as a Black water.

Get Dressed in the Name ... A studio exercise conceived as stylized reconstruction of the Exctinction Rebellion's protest that took place at Zara store, on the Na Příkopě boulevard. Combining acting and an authentic testimony of twenty years old girl Néa, the film aims to reflect the inner states of mind that activists experience during the tough moments of "direct action".

I Don't Know Nóra and Olivér have been active members of the occupation of the university building as part of protesting against the new managment of it. The film presents them after the occupation ended, preparing for an online play. Meanwhile, they have to make a decision whether to keep on resisting or receive their diplomas from the renewed institution.

Ideal Climate for Revolu... Politicaly frustrated masses are looking for somebody to repair all the demages caused by czech prime minister Andrej Babiš and his government, during covid pandemic. Meanwhile the society needs to deal with creeping threat of global warming and for this fight we need a real change – "revolutionary change".

It's all fun and games u... The film deals with the topic of police repression in CR, what form it can take and mainly what impacts it has on those who take on the role of the state and take steps to solve the global climate crisis. In it the author draws on her specific personal experience when last autumn she was falsely accused of blocking a coal excavator in the Vršany.

Courage Courage is comprised of eight poetic acts written by Dayna Ash that tackle identity, freedom, and being queer in the Middle East—where the dominating discourse aims to dim and erase their existence. The “closet” is portrayed as a labyrinth of societal norms and traditions that bodies must navigate to survive, rendering coming out and the spectrum in-between as equally courageous acts.

The Town That Christmas ... A couple and their kids are stranded in a small town during Christmas after their SUV breaks down on a back-road shortcut. The town's residents are struggling to get by but still manage to enthusiastically celebrate Christmas, and the disconnected, technology-dependent family soon begin to learn from their example.

June 2021