The Summer Of Mischief

Film Info

Film Year: 2017

Film Duration: 28 min

Country: Czech Republic

Language: Czech

Director

Michaela Poláková

Film Category

Best Short

Synopsis

Vojta is a fifteen-year-old boy who is forced to spend his summer holidays at the swimming pool owned by his father Milan. Due to a newly opened aquapark in the nearby town, no one is going to the swimming pool anymore. Therefore the father decides to organize various traditional events to bring the customers back. Vojta, compared to his simple and rude father, is a sensitive boy who likes to escape secretly into his private world of fantasy. Thus he starts writing a new story about his summer at the swimming pool. To make the inhospitable reality more tolerable, he decides to incorporate a new character into his story. Linda. A poetically tuned chamber drama about the relationship triangle between father, son, and Linda; characterized by a theme of love that can take many forms.