The sophisticated storytelling by scriptwriter Jan Stehlik combines the world of Romany and Czechs, the latter playing prairie Indians in their sparetime without understanding for an alien culture. The love story between Franta, a Czech, and Marie, a Romany, unfolds in this setting. Convincingly director Dan Wlodarczyk shows the tensions and conflicts between and especially within the different ethnic groups leading us to the conclusion, that living together sometimes expects too much. Instead, living side by side without violence is not little. By this realistic approach the film aims at a perspective for a common future.
Originating in 1991 from the film club movement of the former GDR, the festival is dedicated to the films of Central and Eastern Europe and the successor states of the USSR. The main prize is the glass statue of LUBINA. An ecumenical jury, appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, has accompanied the festival since 1999.
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