CINEAST 2025

Girl America 

Amerikánka Tchéquie-Slovaquie-Suisse 2024 | Viktor Tauš | vostEN | 107′ | digital | Cast : Pavla Beretová, Julie Šoucová, Klára Kitto, Lucie Žáčková, Klára Melíšková, Zuzana Mauréry, Magdaléna Borová, Vladimír Javorský

► Best Cinematography, Costume Design, Stage Design, Czech Lion Awards 2025

An orphanage under communism. Foster parents. Juvenile detention. Then–the Velvet Revolution and the freedom you can’t handle. You fall a hundred times. You get back up on your feet… A vivid and boldly experimental interpretation of the true story of a woman going through a traumatic childhood marked by abandonment and institutionalisation in totalitarian Czechoslovakia.

« Vivid and magical and fuelled by urgent pain, Girl America is a mesmerising cinematic confection which … deserves to be seen much more widely. » (Eye for Film)

« Rather than focusing on a straightforward retelling, Tauš prioritises an immersive, mythical and poetic spectacle infused with an implicit social critique, making Girl America a most visually distinct modern Czech film. » (Cineuropa)

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Location: Cinémathèque @Cercle Cité