Girl America at the European Film Festival 2025

The Czech Republic was represented by Viktor Tauš’s drama Girl America, a powerful story of freedom, friendship, and coming of age. The 2024 film received fourteen nominations for the Czech Lion Awards and won four – for cinematography, production design, costume design, and film poster. It also earned three Czech Film Critics’ Awards.

Following the screening, there was a Q&A session with the film’s director, Viktor Tauš, which offered a unique behind-the-scenes insight into the film.

Proceeds from the European Film Festival were donated to a charity supporting children in Ukraine.

 

You can browse the photo gallery from the event below the article.

 

More about the film

You return to places. To the places where you grew up. You tremble. You sweat. You swallow. You can’t avoid the memories. Some are like vivid paintings. Others hit like punches. A children’s home under communism. Foster care. Juvenile detention. And then the Velvet Revolution. And freedom – a freedom you don’t know how to handle. You fell a hundred times. But you got up a hundred times too. They didn’t break you. Because you weren’t alone. You had yourself. And you had hope. Hope that one day you’d escape to America. Where your father is waiting for you. Girl America. A story about a girl who stopped running.
(Bioscop)

 

• Girl America (Director: Viktor Tauš, Czech Republic, 2024, 108 min)

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