Showtimes
Saturday, April 25, 2026
11:00AM Oriental Theatre - Lubar Cinema (west)
Monday, April 27, 2026
1:00PM Downer Theatre - South Cinema
Description
In 1981 Vienna, Perla, a dissident artist and single mother, struggles to build a stable life for her daughter Julia, a gifted young pianist. But when Julia’s estranged father reappears after years of absence, claiming to be gravely ill, Perla is forced to make a dangerous journey back to communist Czechoslovakia. This perilous return compels her to confront a past she thought she had left behind, jeopardizing her present to protect her future.
- Series
- Worldviews Program – MFF26
- Year
- 2025
- Length
- 108 minutes
- Language
- German, Slovak, Russian
- Subtitles
- English
- Country
- Austria, Slovakia
- Sponsor
- Mary Ann LaBahn
- Producers
- Sabine Gruber, Arash T. Riahi
- Writer
- Alexandra Makárová
- Cinematographer
- Georg Weiss
- Editor
- Joana Scrinzi
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