Between Lips and Glasses

Mira Erdevički / Czechoslovakia / 1989 / The film already had its Czech Premiere / 8 min.

synopsis

Have another drink, you don’t know what’s waiting for you outside, advises a FAMU’s cinéma vérité-style report, filmed in the U Kocoura pub in the velvet year of 1989. The pub chanson, sung by Petr Hapka, accompanies the turmoil of overflowing human emotions, from exuberant merriment, to drunken melancholy, to a universe of silence, spilled tables, and empty chairs.

biography

Mira Erdevički (born 1965) is a documentary filmmaker, journalist, and visual artist. She comes from Yugoslavia, studied journalism in Belgrade, and graduated from FAMU in Prague between 1988 and 1993. She worked as an assistant director with Emir Kusturica on the film Underground (1995). She focuses on Roma themes. The Ji.hlava IDFF in 2022 screened her film Leaving to Remain (2022).