{"id":41176,"date":"2024-05-12T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T07:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/novinky\/rozhovor-s-terezou-nvotovou\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T11:32:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T09:32:25","slug":"tereza-nvotova-goes-to-cannes","status":"publish","type":"novinka","link":"https:\/\/sfu.sk\/en\/news\/tereza-nvotova-goes-to-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tereza Nvotov\u00e1 Goes to Cannes with project Father"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tereza Nvotov\u00e1 is the director of successful Slovak films such as Nightsiren<\/a><\/em> (Pardo d\u2019oro Concorso Cineasti del presente at the Locarno FF 2022), Filthy<\/a><\/em> (world premiere at IFF Rotterdam 2017), and The Lust for Power<\/a><\/em> (world premiere at IDFF Ji.hlava 2017). She is currently working on the mini-series Our People<\/em>, which won the Best Project award at this year\u2019s Series Mania Forum, and the feature film Father<\/a><\/em>, produced by Veronika Pa\u0161t\u00e9kov\u00e1 of Danae Production, which will be presented at Goes to Cannes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film Father<\/em> is inspired by the real-life case of a man who unintentionally caused the death of his two-year-old child. What drew you to this case? What aspect of this story did you primarily want to explore in the film?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I heard this story for the first time\u2014and realized it was not unique\u2014I couldn\u2019t even imagine it in a film. It felt too overwhelming for audiences. But I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about it. Not because of the tragedy itself, but because what happened violated the basic principle that we all somehow believe in: that playing fair in life protects us from harm and that disasters only happen when we make a big mistake. Of course, forgetting a child in a car is a mistake, but according to scientific research, it\u2019s a potential mistake that is hard-wired into all of our brains. If it doesn\u2019t happen to you, you\u2019re just lucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that all of us could kill our own children in this way blew my mind. It made me empathize immensely with someone going through this experience. That\u2019s why I decided to make a film about what it\u2019s like to become a victim of your own brain. I hope the film provokes the audience to contemplate on their own, but most of all, I would like it to open people\u2019s hearts, so that we accept our fragility and imperfections and do not judge others or ourselves too quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plot of the film mainly follows the aftermath of the accident. Do you focus more on the father\u2019s experience or on the public perception of this heavily publicized case? To what extent does your film also consider notions of guilt, punishment, or empathy?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film begins the morning leading up to the tragedy and follows the next couple of months from the father\u2019s perspective. I\u2019m fascinated by those tipping points which change the course of one\u2019s life, especially when they occur in otherwise perfectly normal circumstances, on otherwise perfectly \u201cnormal\u201d days. The theme of guilt and punishment is, of course, central to the story, but the court scene, for example, is important to me mainly from the father\u2019s point of view. Apathetic to the legal consequences, he really only cares about his wife’s forgiveness, or lack thereof. The public, whether it is the media or the neighbours, functions in the film as part of a world in which the father is at first fully integrated, but after the tragedy, he is cast out into the void. The only anchor for him is his wife, who, however, is hardly hard hit by the loss of her child and needs to find her own way back to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film is shot in very long takes. Why did you choose this technique?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It allows for greater identification with the main character. Time also passes differently in long shots, and the audience is able to project more, connect more, because the director isn\u2019t dictating so much what they should be focusing on. Moreover, with these long shots, we can get into the father\u2019s inner world, particularly during his dissociative states in moments of distress. We all know the feeling when we look down on ourselves as if from above, or when we drift away from reality in our thoughts. Using conventional editing methods to depict these moments seemed heavy-handed to me. In a single shot, the external and internal reality come together naturally, because we are used to looking at the world through our own eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What stage is the project currently in? When do you expect it to be completed?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the moment, we\u2019ve shot the second half of the film, set during winter. We plan to shoot the first half this June. We\u2019ll start post-production right after that and the film should be ready early next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Father<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
Goes to Cannes \u2013 Tallinn Black Nights<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation:
May 18 | 14:00 | Palais K<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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