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Foxes

Czech Films 2009-2010 2010 / Lištičky / Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Ireland 2009

Emotionally unstable Alžběta works in Dublin as an au pair and desperately longs to create a new home for herself far away from her native Slovakia. Her older sister Tina, who assimilated effortlessly thanks to her fiancé Steve, tries in vain to help her. But for Alžběta to start living her own life, the sisters must together stand up to a secret event from their past... This drama by debut director Mira Fornay screened at the Venice IFF in the International Film Critics’ Week section.

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Synopsis

23-year-old Alžběta works in Dublin as an au pair and desperately longs to create a new home for herself far away from her native Slovakia. She feels it isn’t possible without a man, but in contrast to her older sister Tina, she is unable to find anyone. Tina tries to help her emotionally unstable sister, but Alžběta just becomes more and more jealous of Tina’s relationship with Irish boyfriend Steve. An unfortunate incident that happened long ago both divides and connects the sisters. In order for Alžběta to start living life on her own, the young women must stand up to the past together.... Mira Fornay’s directorial debut is a drama about sisterly envy and dependence, but it is also about redemption and forgiveness. Reflecting on the foxes within us, the title of the film isn’t merely a metaphor for the situation of foreign women in a foreign land, covertly exposed to extreme pressures. Having come in search of food, foxes actually live in Dublin where they have assimilated, but the other inhabitants of the town still think of them as intruders. This drama screened at the Venice IFF in the competitive International Film Critics’ Week section.

About the film

83 min / Color, 35 mm

Director Mira Fornay / Screenplay Mira Fornay / Dir. of Photography Tomáš Sysel / Music Tadeáš Věrčák, Aaron Goldberg / Editor Hedvika Hansalová / Producer Viktor Schwarcz, Juraj Buzalka, David Collins, Brian Willis / Production Cineart TV Prague s.r.o., Samson Films, Miras / Cast Réka Derzsi, Rita Banczi, Aaron Monaghan, Jitka Josková, Jonathan Byrne, Christopher Simpson, Nicholas Pinnock / Contact Film Europe s.r.o., Bontonfilm, a.s. / Distributor Bontonfilm, a.s.

About the director

Mira Fornay

Mira Fornay (b. 1977, Bratislava) graduated in direction from Prague’s Film Academy (FAMU) with the movie Small Untold Secrets (Malá nesdělení, 2002), which was presented at numerous international festivals (e.g. Premiers Plans in Angers and the IFFs in Rotterdam, Telluride, New York, Kiev, and Tehran). She continued her studies at Britain’s National Film and Television School (NFTS) in Beaconsfield. In 2005 she was selected to participate in a workshop organized by top Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Before moving on to her feature debut Foxes (2009), she shot several prize-winning shorts, including Origami (1998, Best Short Film at the Cottbus IFF, Main Prize at Art Film in Trenčianské Teplice), Ex-pozice (2000), and her graduation work Alžbeta (2004, BIF in Bristol, London IFF).

Contacts

Film Europe s.r.o.
Matuškova 10, 831 01, Bratislava
Slovakia
E-mail: [email protected]

Bontonfilm, a.s.
Na Poříčí 1047/26, 110 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 257 415 111
E-mail: [email protected]

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Marta Švecová
Festival Organizer, Film Institution Rep., Sales Agent

Mira Fornay
Film Director, Producer

Réka Derzsiová
Actress

Jitka Josková
Actress

Petr Slavík
Distributor, PR & Marketing

Jitka Procházková
Festival Organizer, TV Representative

Aleš Danielis
Distributor

Marek Jeníček
Distributor, Producer

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