28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Wishing on a Star
director: Peter Kerekes
original title: Wishing on a Star
year: 2024
running time: 99 min.
synopsis
An astral comedy that shows how to resurrect one’s love for a husband, find a woman to start a family or reconcile with your father. Just go to Alaska, Greenland or Lebanon, advises Italian astrologer Luciana, who works as a travel agent, psychotherapist and personal coach in her office. This touchingly real guide to emotional turmoil, human longing and hope is based on the techniques of fiction film. A layered group portrait with a polished character typology portrays a world driven by chance, disguised as mirage, self-delusion or miracle.“I dreamed of making an 'Italian' film full of passionate love, strong emotions, humour and Vespa motorcycles. But there was a catch. I'm not Italian, I don't understand the language and I have a melancholic Hungarian character combined with an ironic sense of humour.” — Peter Kerekes
Source: Artcam Films
biography
Peter Kerekes (1973) is a Slovak director, producer, teacher and a graduate of film directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, where he currently teaches. He works on social themes in unusual contexts. His films include The Velvet Terrorist (2013) and BATAstories (2018). His docudrama 107 Mothers (2021) won the best screenplay award in the Horizons section of Venice FF, while Wishing on a Star was nominated for best director in the same section.more about film
| director: | Peter Kerekes |
| producer: | Erica Barbiani, Lucia Candelpergher, Peter Kerekes, Anna Mach Rumanová |
| script: | Peter Kerekes, Erica Barbiani |
| photography: | Martin Kollár |
| editing: | Marek Šulík |
| music: | Lucia Chuťková |
| sound: | Michal Gábor |
| co-producer: | Ralph Wieser, Vít Schmarc, Vanja Jambrović, Tibor Keser, Stefano Centini |
