Viera Čákanyová (b. 1980) studied scriptwriting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and documentary filmmaking at FAMU in Prague. Her feature debut FREM (2019) premiered at the Ji.hlava IDFF 2019 and the Berlinale 2020, and won Best Debut at the ELBE DOCK Festival. Her subsequent film White on White (2020) claimed top honors at the Ji.hlava IDFF in 2020, GreenDox Award at Dokufest in Kosovo, the Czech Competition at One World in Prague, and was selected for the main competitions at Sheffield DocFest and ZagrebDox.
The Flying Horse
The Flying Horse
The Flying Horse
Synopsis
Eduard Kirchberger, a writer in the First Czechoslovak Republic, embodied various personas like Karel Fabián (one of Kirchberger's pseudonyms). His daughters struggle to distinguish real memories from those in his books. Čákanyová blends documentary and animation in a tragicomic portrayal of Kirchberger's attempt to escape history and self.
'I wanted to visualise his story freely (approach freedom offered by text), avoid the concreteness of reality, given by the descriptive character of technology in both feature and documentary films and make room for some inner imagination.' - Viera ČÁKANYOVÁ
Festivals & Awards
2014 Warsaw IFF
2014 Special Mention, Ji.hlava IDFF
Director's Profile
Viera ČÁKANYOVÁ
Filmography
2005 Elizexmachina
2005 00:00:00
2005 Talking heads
2006 Under Underground
2007 Piranha
2007 Worms
2009 100 Days
2009 Alda
2010 Olda
2011 Update
2014 Slovakia 2.0: Rupicapra
2014 Gottland: The Flying Horse
2019 FREM
2020 White on White
2023 Notes from Eremocene
Credit
Producer｜Peter BADAČ (SK), Tomáš HRUBÝ (CZ)
Scriptwriter｜Viera ČÁKANYOVÁ
Cinematographer｜Šimon DVOŘÁČEK
Editor｜Viera ČÁKANYOVÁ, Alexandra GOJDIČOVÁ
Sound｜Adam LEVÝ, Miloš HANZÉLY, Dušan KOZÁK
Print Source
Nutprodukce｜Tomas HRUBY｜tomas@nutprodukce.cz