Passengers

Jana Boršková / Czech Republic / 2018 / World Premiere / 78 min.

synopsis

The film’s director sees her four protagonists as passengers along for the ride. She started to follow them just before they left the children’s home where they grew up, and spent the next six years following their lives. The return to a non-functioning family environment often also means the return to established patterns, lack of a future, and unstable social relations. The film is an indirect indictment of the country’s institutionalized care system, which manages to look after children as minors but fails to properly prepare them for the transition into adulthood.

„What is it like to sit in the back seat of your life?“

biography

Jana Boršková (1977) studied screenwriting at FAMU and did a student exchange at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. She works for Czech Television, where she focuses primarily on programs about traveling. She is the author of several feature film screenplays. In 2011, she shot the intimate documentary From Cherries to Cherries about how her mother came to terms with the death of her husband.

more about film

director:	Jana Boršková
cast:	Milan Gujdan, Josef Pošmurný, Milan Pošmurný, Pavel Sivák
producer:	Jarmila Poláková, Taťána Marková
script:	Jana Boršková
photography:	David Šachl
editing:	Blanka Kulová, Jiří Brožek, Ivana Davidová
sound:	Vladimír Chrastil, Jana Boršková
co-producer:	Martina Šantavá, Adam Rakovský