Czech filmmaker Beata Parkanová’s Tiny Lights world premiered this week in the Crystal Globe competition at Karlovy Vary film festival.
The film centres around six-year-old Amálka (Mia Banko) who hears snippets of her family bickering. Taken to spend an afternoon with her grandparents, she soon discovers that her mother wants to move away from the rest of the family.
Parkanová began her career writing novels and children’s books and then graduated from Czech film school Famu in 2015. Her debut feature Moments premiered at Karlovy Vary in 2018. Her sophomore effort Word played in main competition at Karlovy Vary in...
The film centres around six-year-old Amálka (Mia Banko) who hears snippets of her family bickering. Taken to spend an afternoon with her grandparents, she soon discovers that her mother wants to move away from the rest of the family.
Parkanová began her career writing novels and children’s books and then graduated from Czech film school Famu in 2015. Her debut feature Moments premiered at Karlovy Vary in 2018. Her sophomore effort Word played in main competition at Karlovy Vary in...
- 7/3/2024
- ScreenDaily
If you’re lucky enough to remember memories from your early childhood, you’ll know they tend to be fragmentary, skewed from an outlook incapable of fully grasping the adult world. Czech filmmaker Beata Parkanova captures that feeling beautifully in her film receiving its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Related entirely through the viewpoint of a six-year-old girl, Tiny Lights emerges as a small gem.
It helps that the little girl, Amalka, is played by adorable child actress Mia Banko, possessing wide, saucer eyes that are endlessly expressive and long red hair of which Heidi would be jealous. In the opening scene, Amalka hears voices emanating from a closed-door room and, naturally curious, attempts to listen. She hears her grandmother angrily say to her mother, “Happiness? Save it for the fairy tales,” but she has no idea of what it means.
So she goes to play with her very submissive cat,...
It helps that the little girl, Amalka, is played by adorable child actress Mia Banko, possessing wide, saucer eyes that are endlessly expressive and long red hair of which Heidi would be jealous. In the opening scene, Amalka hears voices emanating from a closed-door room and, naturally curious, attempts to listen. She hears her grandmother angrily say to her mother, “Happiness? Save it for the fairy tales,” but she has no idea of what it means.
So she goes to play with her very submissive cat,...
- 7/2/2024
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"Do we want to be sheep?" The Match Factory has released an official promo trailer for a German political thriller titled Je Suis Karl, which was recently announced for the upcoming Berlin Film Festival. The film is debuting in the Berlinale Specials section this March as a world premiere, fittingly because it takes place primarily in Berlin dealing with politics. Maxi, the survivor of a terrorist attack, joins the beguiling student Karl and becomes part of a European youth movement; one that aims for nothing less than seizing power. The film's cast features Luna Wedler, Jannis Niewöhner, Milan Peschel, Edin Hasanovic, Fleur Geffrier, Elizaveta Maximová, and Marlon Boess. It's hard to tell which side of the political battle this film is supporting – which might be the whole point anyway. At least from this footage, it seems like it might be saying these people are being radicalized. But maybe not? Compared...
- 2/15/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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