Marta Balaga Martina Buchelová’s debut feature “Lover, Not a Fighter” (“Milovník, nie bojovník”) has debuted three first-look stills.
Recently awarded at Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s industry section, Eastern Promises, the Slovak-Czech co-production sees Andrej, who is 20, secretly in love with Miša, living with his grandma, and having the problem of climbing high trees when drunk. “I wrote the script during the pandemic.
During that first wave of darkness, I wanted to laugh a little, so I started to laugh at all the hardships,” Buchelová told Variety.
Her short “Magic Moments” premiered at Toronto. “This film mirrors so many contemporary problems, so many chaotic things happening in the world.
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