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Playing

Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema 2019 / Hra / Czech Republic 2019

Teenagers Boris and Hugo have informed the internet that they’ll be committing suicide in one hour. Sixty minutes of wondering whether it’s a joke, provocation, or reality. The clock is ticking, the online voyeurs are growing restless, and Hugo, unlike Boris, is beginning to have doubts. A carefully constructed film about a decision that can’t be changed. Or can it?

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Synopsis

In one hour two boys will commit suicide. One hour that they share with the internet. Sixty minutes of wondering whether the whole thing is a provocation, a bad joke, or a seriously intended act. But it is not just the online voyeurs who have their doubts. So does one of the teenagers, Hugo, although his friend Boris is determined to do as he promised. During this short period of time, the relationship between the two undergoes several transformations, but the clock ticks on mercilessly… A carefully constructed and formally sophisticated film with a surprisingly strong emotional punch – all this is Lun Sevnik’s Playing.

Anna Kořínek

About the film

22 min / Color, DCP
World premiere

Director Lun Sevnik / Screenplay Lun Sevnik / Dir. of Photography Kryštof Melka / Editor Maja Benc / Art Director Zuzana Formánková / Producer Mai Lan Nguyen, Linda Pilková / Production FAMU / Coproduction Česká televize / Cast Rudolf Tříska, Miloslav Pecháček / Contact Czech Film Fund

About the director

Lun Sevnik

Lun Sevnik (Ljubljana, Slovenia). Filmography: Voyage Voyage (2017, short), Playing (Hra, 2019)

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Czech Film Fund
Dukelskych hrdinu 47, 170 00, Praha 7
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 224 301 278
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Lun Sevnik
Film Director

Kryštof Melka
Director of Photography

Jaroslav Sedláček
Producer

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