Homies

The first Czech bromance starring filmmaker and musician Jan Foukal and frontman of the band Bert & Friends Albert Romanutti.

Sami doma
Czechia 2022
74 min.
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Two new flatmates are not even looking for an exit from the lockdown – which becomes more of a backdrop outside the windows of a one-bedroom Prague apartment. Shot on an ever present handheld camera, the reality of the (non)passing time of the pandemic slowly reveals itself. As the protagonists mutually confess and unmask each other over past unfulfilled relationships, we witness how they naturally complement one another in the household. The look inward, at ordinary events, gradually transforms the apartment into an autonomous world of imagination and song. The film thus serves as a manifesto of creation as an escape from an otherwise closed-up world. With giddy exaggeration, the emerging friendship opens up more general questions of the human need for social interaction and sharing life.

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Credits
Director: Jan Foukal
Screenplay: Jan Foukal, Albert Romanutti
Cinematography: Jan Foukal, Albert Romanutti
Music: Jan Foukal, Albert Romanutti
Editing: Josef Krajbich, Jan Foukal
Producer: Silvie Michajlova, Ondřej Zima, Jan Foukal
Cast: Jan Foukal, Albert Romanutti
Director Jan Foukal

Jan Foukal (1979, Prague). Selected filmography: Hello Babu (2006, short doc.), Egon Bondy’s Last Lecture (2009, short doc.), The Making Of (2011, short doc.), Amerika (2015, doc.), Two Ships (2021), Homies (2022).

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  • This film is available in the following territories: Czechia.