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A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places

Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema 2024 / Dom Strom / Slovak Republic 2024

A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Adam from the Slovak village of Utekáč can do any job you ask of him. He is strong, brave, and very active. He earns his own money, his life is completely in his own hands, and his friends admire him for it. Adam says all this about himself, but the truth is perhaps a little different. Set to a folk rhythm, Slovak director Katarína Gramatová’s hybrid documentary brilliantly uses the tools of cinema, a sense of subtle humor, and provocative irony to tell the story of one Romani boy and one remote village where life is far from easy.

Anna Kořínek

About the film

20 min / Color, DCP

Director Katarína Gramatová / Screenplay Katarína Gramatová / Dir. of Photography Katarína Gramatová / Sound Anna Žihlová / Editor Katarína Gramatová / Producer Erika Paulinská / Production Academy of Performing Arts - Film & TV Faculty, Bratislava / Coproduction NOCHI FILM / Contact Slovenský filmový ústav / Slovak Film Institute

About the director

Katarína Gramatová

Katarína Gramatová (1997, Košice, Slovakia). Filmography: Cherries (Čerešne, 2019, short), A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places (Dom Strom, 2024, short doc.).

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Slovenský filmový ústav / Slovak Film Institute
Grösslingová 32, 811 09, Bratislava
Slovakia
Phone: +421 257 101 503
Fax: +421 252 963 461
E-mail: [email protected]

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