Year of the Widow
Czechia / Slovakia / Croatia | 2024 | Czech / Polish | 109 min | Drama | DCP
Synopsis
After her husband’s fatal health collapse, Petra in her early 40s becomes a widow. However, grief is not the only challenge that she and her teenage daughter Dominika have to face – almost immediately they are trapped in the never ending cycle of bureaucracy that a person’s death brings: mortgages, loans, rents, energy bills etc. Amidst the shattering lifequake Petra has to rely only on herself in the struggle for a new life against the disfavor of destiny.
Credits
| Original Title | Rok Vdovy |
| English Title | Year of the Widow |
| Country | Czechia, Slovakia, Croatia |
| Exhibition Format | DCP |
| Director | Veronika Lišková |
| Producer | Kristýna Michálek Květová, Tomáš Michálek |
| Screenplay | Eugen Liška |
| Cinematography | Dušan Husár |
| Cast | Pavla Beretova, Tomas Bambusek, Zuzana Kronerova |
Company
Cinémotif Films
Marek Dusil
marek@cinemotiffilms.cz
Director
Veronika Lišková
Czech Republic
Veronika premiered her feature documentary debut, Daniel‘s World, at Berlinale Panorama 2015. Her second feature-length documentary The Visitors has premiered at Semaine de la Critique Locarno in 2022. For several years Veronika headed the Ex Oriente Film Workshop at the IDF and was employed as a curator and acquisition manager at DAFilms. She is currently in post-production of her fiction debut, Year of the Widow.
