Tomas enters college with a desire to gain status and break out of the social bottom. He joins a secret club that allows everything that is forbidden and inappropriate by the university rules. The boy gradually becomes a radicalized man who seeks a target for his anger.
Type of work: Fiction film
Stage: In development
Looking for: Co-producers, financial partners
Contacts: radovan@bypink.cz
Jury statement: The jury and RIGA IFF have an important mission to support challenging stories from fearless filmmakers. We felt that this filmmaker is at a crucial turning point in his career as he enters narrative fiction with this contemporary tale of the dangers of radicalisation.
Radovan Síbrt graduated from The Faculty of Humanities, The Faculty of Arts at Charles University, and from FAMU. In 2018, he co-produced the Berlinale-winning feature Touch Me Not. He is an alumnus of Ji.hlava IDFF Emerging Producers (2014), Czech Producer on the Move in Cannes (2018), and in 2019 he attended the Berlinale Talents.