One family, two homelands, zero guarantees — democracy's collapse hits different when it's your kitchen table.
The Sykora family are only four people out of millions of Venezuelans that have recently escaped their collapsing country. They land in the Czech Republic, the country where Grandpa Jan was born, but also a place utterly strange to them. In a matter of months their savings have almost gone and job seeking becomes a nightmare. Again, the dream of just having a normal life starts to vanish. Will the family manage not to crumble along the way?
Direction
Intimate vérité that never exploits — just witnesses.
Editing
Tight 85 minutes; no fat, all ache.
Director
Jorge Sánchez Calderón
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Over 7 million Venezuelans have fled since 2015 — one of history's largest displacement crises, yet rarely covered with this granular intimacy.
Directors are themselves Venezuelan-Czech; the film's patience reflects their own navigation of double belonging.
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