Tomas and Diana, children of post-socialist Czechoslovakia, live under one roof with their parents and children, three generations shaped by the legacies of patriarchy, totalitarianism, and the quiet persistence of alcoholism. Amid a culture where infidelity is almost expected, they try to carve out something radically different: a relationship rooted in honesty, equality, and emotional clarity.
But the past lives in the body. And in the small rituals of daily life, it speaks.
As their relationship unravels and rebuilds, they begin to examine the emotional inheritance they carry, not just as children of infidelity, but as a couple. Through her, a quieter transformation unfolds: one of gradual self-recognition, late courage, and the cost of truth.
The family home becomes a living character absorbing conflict, holding generations together, echoing trauma, but also offering space for reimagining love. Its walls are witnesses, its atmosphere part of the emotional architecture of the film.
Threaded with intimate conversations, radical honesty, and uncomfortable revelations, the documentary traces the subtle and seismic shifts in one family's inner life.
This is not a story of resolution, but of effort, the fragile, often messy attempt to do things differently. To unlearn inherited pain. To rebel gently. To offer something freer to the next generation, even when they might not understand.
This film is a meditation on love as work: imperfect, ongoing, but fiercely worth it.
One World Film Festival 2025, SK I Ji.hlava Film Festival 2024, CZ
OKTOBER 2025
ein Film von Sigurður Anton Friðþjófsson
Island 2024, 92 Minuten, OF mit dt. UT
FSK 16
Mi, 8.10., 20:40 KIZ Royal Kino
Mo 20.10., 20.00 Votivkino, Wien
Do 8.10., 20.10 Volkskino Klagenfurt
Mo 27.10., 20:30 Cinematograph
ein Film von Nathalie Borgers
Jetzt im ADMIRALKINO
JETZT im Kino:
BLUM - Gospodari svoje buducnosti
Ein Film von Jasmila Žbanic
Wien: VILLAGE CINEMA, MILLENIUMCITY
ab 24.10. auch im TOPKINO
5.11., 20.00 Film + Talk im ADMIRALKINO
Graz: KIZ Royal Kino
Linz: Moviemento
Innsbruck: Leokino
Klagenfurt: Volkskino
Ein Film von Reinhard Tötschinger
EDIMOTION, DE 2025
Nominierung:
BESTE MONTAGE - ANDREA WAGNER
für ihre herausragende Arbeit an
DEAR BEAUTIFUL BELOVED
Erlebt echte Kinomomente bei euch im Ort!
Eine Vielzahl ausgewählter Filme findet Ihr auf
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BiH´s entry for the 98th ACADEMY AWARDS
in the category: BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
A film by Diana Fabianova
National Premiere:
23 Oct One World FilmFestival Slovakia
International Premiere:
a film by Mwita Mataro and Helmut Karner
International Premiere
World Premieres:
ELEMENT OF(F) BALANCE
Fr 17. Oktober 17.30 Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus
Mo 27.10., 14.00 Filmmuseum
LOIS WEINBERGER - RUDERAL SOCIENTY
Sa 18.10., 16.30 Metro Kinokulturhaus
Di 28.10. 14.45 Metro Kinokulturhaus
October: Dok Leipzig
November: IDFA