Perla

In early 1980s Vienna, Perla lives with her daughter Júlia and Josef, a schoolteacher with whom she is rebuilding her life, far from the Czechoslovak communist regime. An independent artist and single mother, her fragile balance is upended by a phone call from her daughter’s father.

With her second feature film, Alexandra Makarová crafts an intimate and powerful portrait of a woman tragically caught between past and present.