CALM IN THE CANOPY
ABOUT
A well-placed middle-aged man is at the airport witnessing a tiny incident of an unknown, perhaps Arab, young man with a security attendant. After he is confronted directly at the airport toilets by the young man, the man begins to be subject to an indefinable but greater sense of danger. The fear of the evil that starts to gather him since that incident gradually turns into an obsession. He develops an urgent desire to see the evil, finally, to catch it and destroy it.
- world premiere at Pingyao Film Festival 2023
- premiered in Czech cinemas in May 2024
- premiered in Slovak cinemas in December 2024
CAST: Pavel Gajdoš, Judit Pecháček, Michal Isteník
DIRECTOR: Michal Hogenauer
SCRIPT: Marek Šindelka, Václav Kadrnka
DOP: Šimon Dvořáček
COSTUME DESIGNER: Aneta Grňáková
SET DESIGNER: Jana Bejblová
MAKE-UP: Natália Rothová
EDITOR: Michal Reich
MUSIC: Jakub Kudláč
PRODUCERS: Václav Kadrnka, Simona Kadrnková / Sirius Film Manual, Katarína Krnáčová / Silverart
CO-PRODUCER: Tomáš Srovnal / PFX
CAST AND CREW
Michal Hogenauer (1984, Prague, Czech Republic) graduated from FAMU. His short film Children Watching Night Trains (2008, 20 min) was screened in Premiere Plans 2009. His diploma film Tambylles (2012, 58 min) had a premiere at Cinéfondation section at Cannes Film Festival 2012. In 2015 he co-founded a film educational platform Cinergy Prague. Michal works as a freelance script consultant and festival programmer. The film Calm in the Canopy is his feature debut. He made his debut with the feature film Silent Touches, starring Eliška Křenková, about a Czech au-pair who gradually becomes both a victim and an agent of psychological manipulation. His second feature film, In the Canopies of Storms, premiered at the Pingyao Festival 2024.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
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