VICTIM (2022)
Special Features: U.S. Premiere. 2023 Oscar® Selection, Slovak Republic
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In Slovak director Michal Blaško's powerful first feature — a tense social thriller set in a small Czech border town — Ukrainian immigrant Irina (Vita Smachelyuk) is preparing her application for European citizenship while working as a housekeeper and caring for her 13-year-old son Igor (Gleb Kuchuk), a promising young gymnast. When Igor is the victim of an attack that lands him in hospital, he indirectly identifies the assailants as three local Roma boys. The community is swift to rally around the young man, but as latent anti-Roma sentiment bubbles to the surface and Igor's case becomes co-opted by right-wing campaigners and others stoking racist and xenophobic flames, Irina starts to notice some inconsistencies in her son's story. Faced with an impossible moral dilemma and feeling manipulated from all sides, Irina must navigate a highwire act between justice and her impulse to protect her son and the life she's built. Official Selection, 2022 Venice and Toronto film festivals. DIR Michal Blaško; SCR Jakub Medvecký; PROD Jakub Viktorín, Pavla Kubecková. Slovak Republic/Czechia/Germany, 2022, color, 91 min. In Czech and Ukrainian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
No AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 91 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, December 10, 2022
Genre: Thriller, drama
