Photo: Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary
Swiss actress and screenwriter Anna Schinz presented A Happy Family this weekend at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where the drama directed by her partner Jan-Eric Mack had its world premiere. The first Swiss film ever selected for the festival’s main competition, A Happy Family follows Niki, a single mother struggling to make ends meet in one of Europe’s wealthiest countries, as she faces the risk of losing custody of her children. Combining social realism with emotional restraint, the film sheds light on working poverty in Switzerland while avoiding easy moral judgments. Anna Schinz, whose mother is Czech, spoke to Radio Prague International after the screening about the film, her writing process and her personal connection to the Czech Republic.
Being in Karlovy Vary must be quite different than any other international festival for you since you have Czech roots, don’t you?.
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Author: Alexis Rosenzweig