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Special Features: 2027 Oscar® Selection, Slovak Republic
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During the 1980s in eastern Czechoslovakia, the impending construction of the Starina reservoir threatens the small Rusyn village of Ruské, its residents and their way of life. Against this tumultuous backdrop, 15-year-old Mara (Sára Chripáková) yearns to enroll in a flight academy and become a pilot. Her widowed father, Alexander (Jozef Pantlikáš), is opposed to the idea, demanding she stay in the village and tend to the family farm. As the plans for the reservoir advance and the Communist state threatens to forcibly relocate the village’s residents, Mara and Alexander’s intergenerational conflict comes to a head. In his quiet and evocative feature debut, the first fiction film in the Rusyn language, Slovak filmmaker Martin Gonda explores the struggle between tradition and change through a slice of Czechoslovak history. –Javier Chavez
DIR/SCR Martin Gonda; SCR Martin Šuster, Dominika Udvorková; PROD Katarína Krnáčová, Tomáš Gič. Slovak Republic/Czech Republic/Poland/Belgium, 2025, color, 103 min. In Rusyn and Slovak with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, December 04, 2026
Genre: Comedy
