Happily Ever After

director: Jana Počtová

original title: Šťastně až na věky

year: 2022

running time: 98 min.

synopsis

The film is an inquiry into contemporary forms of alternative models of partnerships. For many protagonists, polyamory, open marriage or long-term lover-to-lover relationships present a fulfilling life style, but also a struggle with misunderstanding of the society or conflicts within their own relationships. The director follows the development of relations of her protagonists over several years, while in intimate talks, she searches for the joy, striving and insecurities brought along by such unusual faces of love, revealing a need for redefining partnership in our times.

“Partnerships strongly influence our lives. As a filmmaker, I am interested in how our personal lives reflect the times, and also how our personal lives change the times,” says Jana Počtová.

biography

The director and screenwriter Jana Počtová (b. 1980) graduated in documentary filmmaking at FAMU. She has been involved in making TV series (Na cestě, Příběhy slavných, Vyprávěj) and documentaries (Oči tygra, 2011; Tornádo – rok poté, 2022). MFDF Ji.hlava has screened two of her films on parenting and relationships, Generation Singles (2011) a Non-Parent (2017).

more about film

director:	Jana Počtová
producer:	Martin Hůlovec, Jakub Pinkava
photography:	Jakub Halousek
editing:	Petra Berkovičová Raušová
music:	Ondřej Anděra
sound:	Ivan Horák
co-producer:	Helena Uldrichová

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