David takes his two children on holiday to the Adriatic Sea, hoping to hold their fractured bilingual family together. His 17-year-old daughter, Klára, struggling with an eating disorder, falls in love with a local boy, Denis. When he is accused of murder, David rushes the children back home to Czechia. Klára’s condition spirals, landing her in hospital. The only thing uniting her estranged parents is their need to save her. And desperate times call for desperate measures.
“Ungrateful Beings is a story of a family in crisis, torn apart by guilt and self-denial. At its core, the film asks: how far are parents willing to go to save their daughter from an eating disorder, even if it means crossing the boundaries between truth and lies, care and manipulation? Through this intimate drama, the film explores how adults unconsciously project their own dysfunctions and unresolved wounds onto their children, unable to face their own failures.” (Olmo Omerzu)
Olmo Omerzu
Born in 1984 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He graduated from Prague Film School FAMU and debuted with the drama A Night Too Young, which premiered in the 2012 Berlinale’s Forum section, subsequently winning the Czech Film Critics' Award for Discovery of the Year. The Slovenian-born, Czechia-based director won the Best Director Award at the 2018 Karlovy Vary Film Festival for his third feature film, Winter Flies.