Archive of films My Sunny Maad / Moje slunce Mad
Czech Republic / France / Slovak Republic
2021, 81 min
Section:
Special Screenings
Year: 2021
Getting married is always a big step, but for Helena it marks a fundamental change in her life. She leaves Prague behind and moves with Nazir to Kabul, where she becomes part of a family she has never met. The new world brings much joy, but also difficulties that a European married to an Afghan man must overcome.
Synopsis
Getting married is always a big step, but for Helena it marks a fundamental change in her life. She leaves Prague behind and moves with Nazir to Kabul, where she becomes part of a family she has never met. The new world brings much joy, but also difficulties that a European married to an Afghan man must overcome. But the clash of cultures is just one theme in Michaela Pavlátová’s new film, which elegantly avoids taking a stereotyped view of its subject. My Sunny Maad is first and foremost a humanist exploration of the dynamics of human relationships, which – though they play out against the two-dimensional backdrop of a Central Asian city – also offers a more universal message about the importance of mutual respect and understanding.
Sandra Hezinová
About the director

Michaela Pavlátová (1961, Prague). Selected filmography: Words, Words, Words (1991, short), Repete (1995, short), Faithless Games (2003), Carnival of Animals (2006, short), Night Owls (2008), Tram (2012), My Sunny Maad (2021).
Contacts
Totem Films
5 rue de Charonne, 750 11, Paris
France
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.totem-films.com
Aerofilms
Milady Horákové 383/79, 170 00, Praha 7
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 224 947 566
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.aerofilms.cz
About the film
Color, DCP
International premiere
Section: | Special Screenings |
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Director: | Michaela Pavlátová |
Screenplay: | Ivan Arsenjev podle předlohy / based on the work of Petra Procházková |
Music: | Evgueni & Sacha Galperine |
Editor: | Evženie Brabcová |
Art Director: | Michaela Pavlátová |
Producer: | Kateřina Černá, Petr Oukropec |
Production: | Negativ |
Coproduction: | Sacrebleu Productions, BFILM |
Cast: | hlasy / voices: Zuzana Stivínová, Haji gul Asir, Shahid Maqsoodi, Shamla Maqsoodi |
Sales: | Totem Films |
Distributor: | Aerofilms |
Guests

Michaela Pavlátová
Film Director

Kateřina Černá
Producer

Petr Oukropec
Producer

Michaela Tyllerová
Animator

Václav Krejčí
Animator

Ivan Arsenjev
Screenwriter, Screenwriter

Evženie Brabcová
Editor