Kát’a / Katya (2011)

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“One of the three films Rotterdam film festival movies you must see” – Howard Feinstein (Indiewire)

Festival selections
* American Online Film Awards 2014 – Link
* Mujeres en Foco, Buenos Aires 2013 – Link
* International Film and Music Festival Küstendorf 2013 – Link 
* 3rd Peloponnesian international film festival 2012 – Link
* NFF 2012 – Program ‘Nieuwe Lichting’ – Link
* 7th Pentedattilo Film Festival – International Short Film Festival, Women’s issue section – Link
* International Competition of Femina 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Link
* Short film Corner Cannes 2012
* IFFR 2012 – the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands – Link

Synopsis
Having spent her life devoid of her father’s presence, Katya – a too-mature-for-her-age adolescent in transition – finally decides to face the man that she wants to call ‘Dad’ so badly. With an overbearingly erratic mother in medication who tries to conceal the father’s current state of existence, Katya’s desire to search the man who had left her before she could even speak, grows even stronger by the day. Once she embarks upon the quest, the result is far from what she envisioned. Katya’s reunion with her father turns into an unexpected revelation and realization.

Technical details

Shot with CANON 7D
Available on DCP, BETACAM DIGI PAL, DVD
Length 15 MINUTES
Language CZECH
Available subtitles ENGLISH & DUTCH
Colour COLOUR
Aspect Ratio 1:1.78 (16:9)
Sound STEREO
Genre COMING OF AGE/ SOCIAL DRAMA
Film finished NOVEMBER 2011

 

Cast:

Kát’a/Katya Michaela Patočková
Mother Veronika Bellová
Father Michal Bregant
Girlfriend father Eva Leimbergerová

 

Crew:

written & directed by Francisca Toetenel
d.o.p. village Nisha Jurairatanaporn
d.o.p. city Dimo Popov
sound recording Jakub Lejnar
Rolando Garduño
sound mixing Casey Contreary
editing Francisca Toetenel
production Cisca films