Proxima Competition / Na druhé straně léta / Czech Republic, Croatia 2025
In the middle of the lake lies an island – silent, abandoned, without the clear promise of anything unusual. Bětka, her older sister Marie, and their friend Alma are spending the summer here, the days flowing like still water. When they randomly visit the island, the natural landscape around them begins to change – and the emotional one inside them as well… Vojtěch Strakatý’s second feature film is a gentle study of girlhood, the yearning for a different world, and the fragile search for happiness, which may lie elsewhere – or not exist at all. In a poetic Bohemian summer where the buzzing of insects mixes with the sound of the rustling grass, we observe the girls’ friendship as something mysterious and half-dreamed. The only thing we know for sure is that the other side of summer is when summer ends.
Petra Vočadlová
85 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Vojtěch Strakatý
/ Screenplay Vojtěch Strakatý
/ Dir. of Photography Stanislav Adam
/ Music Amelie Siba, Kryštof Kříček
/ Sound Alexandra Strapková, Pavel Jan
/ Editor Filip de Pina
/ Art Director Aneta Grňáková
/ Producer Ondřej Lukeš
/ Production Beginner's Mind
/ Coproduction Wolfgang & Dolly, Česká televize, Sleepwalker
/ Cast Lucie Fingerhutová, Nikola Kylarová, Eliška Bašusová, Sofie Anna Švehlíková
/ Contact Beginner's Mind
/ Distributor Aerofilms
Vojtěch Strakatý. Filmography: Stuck (Zabouchnutá, 2016, short), After Party (2024), The Other Side of Summer (Na druhé straně léta, 2025).
Beginner's Mind
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