v produkcii | CZ – SK – FR | 80 min. | documentary | essay

Sisters

Director
Tereza Bernátková
Producer
Dagmar Sedláčková, Natália Pavlove
Co-producer
Tereza Tokárová, Peter Kerekes
Story
Tereza Bernátková
Screenplay
Tereza Bernátková
DoP
Michaela Klanicová
Editor
Alexander Kascheev
Music
Marek Buranovský
Synopsis

In the late 1950s, a group of nuns and 70 girls labeled as mentally disabled were relocated to the outskirts of Czechoslovakia. In isolation, they formed a female community shaped by daily labor. In a psychiatric institution, the nuns cared for the residents, while one of them captured their lives on 8mm film. These fragments now reveal the story of women pushed to the margins, opening up questions of women’s status, mental health, and the limits of institutional care.

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Director
Tereza Bernátková
Producer
Dagmar Sedláčková, Natália Pavlove
Co-producer
Tereza Tokárová, Peter Kerekes
Story
Tereza Bernátková
Screenplay
Tereza Bernátková
DoP
Michaela Klanicová
Editor
Alexander Kascheev
Music
Marek Buranovský
Sound
Marek Buranovský
Production
MasterFilm (CZ)
Co-production
kerekesfilm (SK), Les Films du Poisson (FR)
Support
Audiovizuálny fond, Creative Europe MEDIA, Státní fond audiovize
Co-production forums
East Doc Platform, Česká republika, 2023 EURODOC, Francúzsko, 2023 Dok.Leipzig Co-production Market, Nemecko, 2025 Cannes CIRCLE Project Showcase, Francúzsko, 2026
Release
2026
Web
www.masterfilm.cz/en#sisters
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