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Award-Winning Coming-of-Age Dramedy WINTER FLIES Arrives on DVD & Digital February 11

Jan 22, 2020 Posted by in DVD/Blu-ray, Press Releases | Comments

TWO YOUNG BOYS HIT THE ROAD FOR MISCHIEVOUS ADVENTURE IN AN AWARD-WINNING, COMING-OF-AGE DRAMEDY FROM CZECH DIRECTOR OLMO OMERZU

WINTER FLIES

Street Date: February 11, 2020
DVD/Digital: $24.95

Winner of Four Czech Lion Awards and Czechoslovakia’s Official Oscar Submission for “Best International Film” in 2019, Omerzu Cements His Status as a “Force to be Reckoned With[1]” With His Third Feature; the DVD Includes the Bonus Short Film “Jackie”


SYNOPSIS

The rebellious fourteen-year-old Mára sets out behind the wheel of a stolen Audi with his eccentric friend Hedus. Together they head out into the frozen wastelands of the Czech Republic in search of adventure. When the police finally catch up with them, the mischievous breeziness of Mára’s story provides more questions than answers for the baffled authorities.

Filled with directorial playfulness, Olmo Omerzu’s winter road movie about boyhood friendship and unexpected adolescent detours was the winner of four Czech Lion Awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor and Actress; it was also Czechoslovakia’s Official Oscar Submission for “Best International Film” in 2019.
 




 

BONUS FEATURE

  • Bonus Short Film: Jackie (Directed by Giedrius Tamosevicius | Lithuania | Lithuanian with English subtitles | 22 minutes) — Tom’s parental rights are restricted. He can see his daughter Urte only in the child protection agency’s office in the presence of a supervisor and his ex-wife. Tom can’t come to terms with the situation and decides to kidnap his daughter.

 

PROGRAM INFORMATION
Type: DVD/Digital (iTunes, Amazon, Vudu)
Running Time: 85 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1 Widescreen
Audio: 5.1 Surround Sound/2.0 Stereo
Language: Czech with English Subtitles
 

About Film Movement
Founded in 2002, Film Movement is a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. It has released more than 250 feature films and shorts culled from prestigious film festivals worldwide including the Oscar-nominated films Theeb (2016) and Corpus Christi (2020). Film Movement’s theatrical releases include American independent films, documentaries, and foreign art house titles. Its catalog includes titles by directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maren Ade, Jessica Hausner, Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrzej Wajda, Diane Kurys, Ciro Guerra and Melanie Laurent. In 2015, Film Movement launched its reissue label Film Movement Classics, featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on Blu-ray and DVD, including films by such noted directors as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway, Bille August, Marleen Gorris, Takeshi Kitano, Arturo Ripstein, King Hu, Sergio Corbucci, Ettore Scola and Luchino Visconti. For more information, please visit www.filmmovement.com. Visit www.filmmovementplus.com for more information about Film Movement Plus, the new subscription streaming service from Film Movement.

[1] Matt Fagerholm, RogerEbert.com