KARAVAN
CARAVAN
Performance
Ester is 45, a single mother – and her life mostly revolves around caring for her son David. When a short vacation with friends in Italy turns sour, she starts the engine of her old caravan in the dead of night and drives off, David in tow. Under the southern Calabrian sun, the wild Zuza joins them and turns their tightly scheduled mother-son routine upside down. They soon find themselves short of money however, Ester falls in love – and comes to the realisation that freedom always comes at a price. Masterfully captured, Zuzana Kirchnerová's CARAVAN speaks of the crushing burden of familial responsibility, the contradictions of maternal love, and the courage it takes to belong to yourself, if only for a moment. The film celebrated its world premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival. A softly-spoken, light-filled case for self-determination, made deeply-touching by its sensitive acting performances.
Thu 06.11. I 13:30 I WELTSPIEGEL SAAL 2 I original version with English and German subtitles
Fri 07.11. I 10:15 I WELTSPIEGEL GROSSER SAAL I original version with English and German subtitles
Zuzana Kirchnerová, Tomáš Bojar, Kristina Májová
Simona Weisslechner, Denisa Buranová
Klára Javoříková
Cristina Bartoletti
Aid Kid, Viera Marinová
Aňa Geislerová, David Vodstrčil, Juliána Brutovská
Tempesta, Czech Television, Slovak Television and Radio, Amygdala Pictures, innogy
Zuzana Kirchnerová - Zuzana Kirchnerová graduated from FAMU and the Faculty ofLaw at Charles University. Her graduation film Bába won firstprize in the Cinéfondation section at the 62nd Cannes FilmFestival.In recent years, she has focused primarily on documentaryfilmmaking. As both director and screenwriter, shehas worked on several acclaimed documentary series forCzech Television, including Four of Us, The Magnificent Five,and Hospital on the Front Line. She also directed severalstandalone documentaries, such as Marie in Her Head andAmbassadors of Baroque Music.Zuzana is the writer and director of the feature filmCaravan. The screenplay received the award of Filmová Nadace/Film Foundation, won one of the top prizes at the prestigiousTorino Feature Lab, and was selected for the CannesFilm Festival’s L’Atelier program.She has worked as a script consultant for the Pop Up FilmResidence and also as a script consultant she contributed tothe animated feature Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light, whichhas received numerous international awards.Zuzana teaches in the directing department at FAMUPrague. She is currently filming a miniseries for Oneplay aboutthe life of writer Simona Monyová.
