Petr Václav : 2014
The Way Out
North Bohemia in 2013. Žaneta is a young mother living with her partner David, her little daughter and her sister in a poorly furnished flat. She aspires to an impossible future for a modern young gypsy woman – to live an ordinary life. Both she and David are jobless, dependent on social welfare in order to exist and struggling to maintain basic living standards, let alone ensuring a bright future for their child. Their unemployment and their difficulty in communicating with officials are both products of the frequent prejudices against the Roma. Under-equipped, Žaneta has to contend with a hostile society that denies them the right to a decent existence, and in spite of it all, strives to preserve both her dignity and her love. Things take a turn for the worse when they find themselves caught in a downward spiral of escalating debts and rapidly vanishing chances of employment, leading David to consider committing a crime in order to help his family. An authentic social-realist drama that reflects a recurrent and untreated problem. Petr Václav's third feature premiered at L'ACID au Festival de Cannes 2014, and was winner of the Blue Angel for Best Film at Art Film Fest, Slovakia 2014.
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