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Once I Got in, It Was Hard to Get Out

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Ida is cleaning out the house that her grandfather, an artist, used to live in. She wades through a studio overflowing with artefacts, oddities and lost history. Similarly to S P A C E S, Štrbová treats the theme of memory and loss, combining fiction and documentary, letting the images of nostalgic childhood and the suffocating past flow associatively. To the sound of Francesco Geminiani's Concerto grosso no. 12, subtitled Madness, the fragile physicality of both dead and living relics stands out. The head of a dead parrot, a cast of her grandmother's breasts or a moss-covered real estate agent represent the discoveries of a personal archaeological site and exhibits of an introspective museum of family history.

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Language
Slovak
  • abandoned house
  • family
  • magical realism
  • cluttered homes

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Czech Republic

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  • CzechiaCZ

    • PremiereJi.hlava International Documentary Film Festival31 Oct 2024
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereFilmfest Bremen 17 Apr 2026
  • GreeceGR

    • PremiereBeyond Borders29 Aug 2025
  • PolandPL

    • Premiere16 Oct 2025

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Once I Got in, It Was Hard to Get Out was released on 31 October 2024.

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