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Promise, I'll Be Fine

Special Screenings / Hore je nebo, v doline som ja / Slovak Republic, Czech Republic 2024

Synopsis

15-year-old Enrique, or Eňo to his friends, is spending the summer with his gran. His time with her is interspersed with rather infrequent visits from his mother Martina, who works far away; all the same, the boy hopes she’ll take him back with her soon. However, contact with his mother dwindles, and her presence is gradually replaced by unflattering village gossip. Enrique decides to investigate the truth. Like her previous short film A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places (2024), director Katarína Gramatová’s feature debut is also set in the desolate village of Utekáč, where the flaking walls of the houses bring to light the often sombre reality of present-day Slovakia. The leads are played superbly by non-actors, real inhabitants of the Slovak valley, from where it seems an endless distance to the sky above.

Anna Kořínek

About the film

93 min / Color, DCP
European premiere
Director Katarína Gramatová / Screenplay Katarína Gramatová / Dir. of Photography Tomáš Kotas / Music 700 Feel / Sound Anna Žihlová, Peter Hilčanský / Editor Aleš Valtr, Katarína Gramatová / Art Director Ivana Plačková / Producer Igor Engler, Julie Marková Žáčková / Production DRYEYE FILM s.r.o. / Coproduction NOCHI FILM / Cast Michal Zachenský, Eva Mores, Jana Oľhová, Adam Šuniar, Dominik Vetrák, Julius Oľha, Attila Mokos / Contact DRYEYE FILM s.r.o. / Distributor Aerofilms
www: @promise_ill_be_fine @dryeyefilm @nochi__film @katarina_gramatova

About the director

Katarína Gramatová. Filmography: Cherries (Čerešne, 2019, short), A Good Mind Grows in Thorny Places (Dom Strom, 2024, short doc.), Promise, I'll Be Fine (Hore je nebo, v doline som ja, 2025).

Contacts

DRYEYE FILM s.r.o.
Watsonova 1, 040 01, Košice
Slovakia
Phone: +421 907 592 895
E-mail: [email protected]

Aerofilms
Milady Horákové 383/79, 170 00, Praha 7
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 224 947 566
E-mail: [email protected]