Marta Balaga Czech director Martin Kohout will turn his focus to the housing crisis, Variety has learned, developing a new film under the working title “Growth of the City.” “No city is able to solve the housing crisis without building new apartments, so they just become bigger and bigger – it’s an endless process.
This idea of never-ending growth is something I would like to explore, because it also has to do with climate change. Instead of focusing on the problem, we are just doing more,” he says.
Kohout, born in 1984, was only 5 years old when the Velvet Revolution took former Czechoslovakia by storm, ending the rule of the Communist Party.
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