Perla

Perla
  • Alexandra Makarová
  • Austria
  • Slovakia
2025
110'
Screening schedule
  • Thursday, 13. November 2025.
  • 20:30
  • Museum of Contemporary Art

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In early 1980s Vienna, an artist and single mother, Perla rebuilt her life with her daughter, Julia, and her partner, Josef, a Tibetologist. Living in exile, she has tried to leave behind the traumas of her youth in communist Czechoslovakia. But when Julia’s father, Andrej, contacts her unexpectedly to say he is gravely ill, Perla risks crossing the border back into her homeland. Pulled between past and present, she begins to make reckless choices that jeopardise her freedom and strain her relationship with Julia. This Cold War drama premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

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Alexandra Makarová
Alexandra Makarová

Alexandra Makarová (1985, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak-Austrian screenwriter and filmmaker born into a family of artists from Russia and Greece. She moved to Vienna to live with her mother, the painter Saša Makarová, and studied screenwriting and directing at the Film College Vienna. Break My Heart (2018), her film about Slovakian Roma on the streets of Vienna, was her feature directorial debut and won the Romy Award for best production in 2019. Perla premiered at IFFR 2025.

Film information

Director: Alexandra Makarová

Screenplay: Alexandra Makarová

Cast: Rebeka Poláková, Simon Schwarz, Carmen Diego, Noël Czuczor, Hilde Dalik

Director of photography: George Weiss

Editing: Joana Scrinzi

Producer: Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber, Tomáš Krupa

Production: Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices, Hailstone

Festivals and awards: International Film Festival RotterdamM 2025; Sarajevo Film Festival 2025

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