Terézia Halamová
Writer-director
Slovakia
Terézia Halamová is a Slovak director currently finishing her MA at FAMU in Prague.
Her short film SING FOR US (2020) premiered at Kaohsiung Film Festival in Taiwan and was screened at many international film festivals including Vilnius IFF. It won the New Europe Talent Award and The Best Cinematography at the Zubroffka Festival and the Jury Award at the International Kinoproba Festival, among others. She also collaborated with foreign musicians, and her music video MOVE HONEY won the Jury Prize at the Polish Papaya Young Directors Competition and was featured at the Berlin Music Video awards. With her feature film in development – THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF – she was selected as a KVIFF Talent 2022 and presented the project at Karlovy Vary IFF.
All of her films are connected by the themes of loneliness, growing up, and exploring intimacy. She repeatedly likes to work with non-actors and is interested in the plasticity of interpersonal relationships.
Project
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
“The Hour Between Dog and Wolf” (Czech Republic/Slovakia) by Terézia Halamová, produced by Natalia Pavlove, vividly portrays the wild journey of 25-year-old Rudo and four other male strippers as they embark on their annual tour through the Czech Republic, passing through Poland and Slovakia. Their busy nightly performances are juxtaposed with the mundane reality of the small towns they encounter along the way. During the tour, Rudo’s world gradually falls apart as it seems like the other group members are each taking different directions in their lives. Rudo also strikes up a bunch of romances along the way, but none of them fulfill him the way he imagined they would, which he compensates for with more frequent drug abuse. Echoes of American pop culture appear throughout the entire film, subconsciously shaping Rudo’s idea of a world where it always seems to him that everything good is happening somewhere else. Amidst wild parties, Christian kitsch and rampant drug abuse, the film explores the fundamental question: Why can’t a man find happiness from the moment he wakes up until he falls asleep?
