Film Archive

Over the Hills

Documentary Films - Competition 2019 / Dálava / Czech Republic 2019

Father and son Vít and Grisha travel to Russia to visit the boy’s mother and sister. Why did their previously harmonious family split in two? A documentary road movie about the distance between two Slavic countries, the difficulties of fatherhood and puberty, and the alienation between people who should, in theory, be the closest of all.

Synopsis

Father and son Vít and Grisha travel to Russia before the end of summer vacation to visit the boy’s mother and sister. But what are they really searching for in this eastern part of Europe? And why did their previously harmonious family split in two? Eight years after his successful Solar Eclipse, which focuses on the ups and downs of two Czech development experts in Zambia, Martin Mareček returns with a small-scale documentary road movie. Here he investigates the distance between two Slavic countries, the difficulties of fatherhood and puberty, and the alienation between people who should, in theory, be the closest of all. Will the long journey from Brno to Diveyevo help them grow closer to each other?

Martin Horyna

About the film

76 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Martin Mareček / Screenplay Martin Mareček, Tomáš Bojar / Dir. of Photography Jiří Málek / Editor Josef Krajbich / Producer Petr Oukropec, Tereza Polachová, Hanka Kastelicová / Production Negativ s.r.o. / Coproduction HBO Europe / Sales Negativ
www: www.negativ.cz

About the director

Martin Mareček (b. 1974, Prague). Selected filmography: Maple 98 (1998, short), Dust Games (2001), Home Within… (2003, short), The Source (2005), Auto*Mate (2009), Solar Eclipse (2011), Over the Hills (2019)