Final 12 months, Berlin-based Slovakian writer-director and visible artist Paula Ďurinová screened her documentary debut, Lapilli, about rocks and the lack of family members, on the Karlovy Differ Worldwide Movie Competition (KVIFF). This 12 months, she returns to its 59th version along with her sophomore doc Motion Merchandise, which the pageant calls “a wholly totally different, but equally delicate movie.”
Sensibility is essential because the doc is about burnout syndrome, treating it, as press supplies spotlight, as “a collective situation and a silenced disaster.”
Ďurinová explores how exhaustion is not only lived however “constructed, formed by the pressures of fixed efficiency and management,” in addition they emphasize. “Via collective reflection and located footage, the movie traces the shift from private fatigue to a shared understanding of systemic circumstances. It challenges the narratives of self-optimization, revealing burnout as greater than a person disaster. Between resistance and care, between reminiscence and motion, Motion Merchandise uncovers what has all the time been there – nervousness as a public secret.”
A synopsis on the KVIFF web site calls the doc an “activist anatomy of burnout, set in Berlin, interweaves the remark of group sharing with a extra experimental montage,” a synopsis on the KVIFF web site explains. “The work takes be aware of the myths related to individualistic society, but, on the similar time, it conveys honest moments of solidarity between people who aren’t afraid to talk of their anxieties. That is each a private and in addition very human movie, which invitations us to take a break in these hectic occasions, when burnout doesn’t essentially imply the tip; quite the opposite, it is perhaps a brand new starting, the place particular person ache is progressively remodeled into the ability of collective sharing.”
THR can now reveal the primary trailer for the movie, which showcases how folks featured in it talk about their struggles and provides experimental visible expressions to them. “As we speak’s public secret is that everybody is anxious,” one particular person says in it. And sure, there may be additionally time for bodily closeness.
“Motion Merchandise emerged from my private expertise with nervousness, melancholy, and a burnout episode a number of years in the past,” Ďurinová explains. “Needing to know what had occurred, I started studying numerous essays and self-published zines that critique the privatization of psychological well being and give attention to its political dimensions.”
‘Motion Merchandise’
Courtesy of guča movies/KVIFF
Gross sales for the movie, which debuts on July 6 within the Proxima Competitors lineup at Karlovy Differ, through which Lapilli additionally screened, are being dealt with by Portuguese gross sales and pageant distribution company Kino Rebelde. The 2025 version of KVIFF, star-studded as all the time, runs July 4-12. The brand new doc from Bratislava-based manufacturing firm guča movies can also be a part of the worldwide competitors on the thirty sixth FidMarseille Worldwide Movie Competition, operating July 8-13.
Motion Merchandise was produced by Matej Sotník for guča, with co-producers Claw movies, Slovak Tv and Radio, and Ďurinová as a part of her research at Universität der Künste Berlin. Lisboa-based Kino Rebelde holds worldwide rights.
“The round and repetitive points of melancholy, nervousness or burnout information the movie,” explains Ďurinová. “Every new expertise carries the reminiscence of the earlier one and, on the similar time, anticipates the following. With this movie, I wished to create a sure suspension of time and house through which we are able to replicate on previous crises and depart from them to search for a wider context.”
Watch the trailer for Motion Merchandise under.