Slovak Director Tereza Nvotová didn’t want to make “ Father .”

“To be honest, I thought: ‘I can’t do it. I don’t know how.’ These kinds of movies can be so heavy – you just feel like you’re sinking. But I also couldn’t stop thinking about this story.”

In the Venice Horizons drama, sold by Intramovies, a horrific mistake destroys one father’s life, threatening his career, marriage and even his sanity. Nvotová’s co-writer Dušan Budzak based it on the ordeal of his own best friend.

“My mind kept going back to the day when this happened to him, which was sort of a boring day – the kind we have all the time. And then everything changes, and he’s crushed. I realized it wasn’t just some horrible story. This could actually happen to me, too,” she tells Variety .

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