VALÉR FUTEJ

The Kitchen (2025)

Strict. Mechanical. Perfect.

The static environment of the kitchen will be disrupted by the arrival of a young woman – a new cook, with her efforts to adapt to the strictly defined working conditions and fit into the settled routine. When she realizes that the mechanism is starting to put a high pressure on her and destroying her individuality, it will be too late to free herself from the system she became a part of.
Through a manipulation of color, unique stylization, formalism and visual concept, “kitchen” is a highly-stylized allegory of the replaceability and disposability of an individual in today’s modern consumer society.

Cast: Judit Pecháček, Jan Révai, Nikol Stýblová, David Pavlis, Radovan Táborský, Veronika Klučková, Kateřina Táborská, Vojtěch Franců

Directed by: Valér Futej

Screenplay by: Valér Futej, Zuzana Nevolová

Produced by: Adéla Růžičková

Director of photography: Kristina Kůlová

Sound by: Vojtěch Vilém Cibulka

Original Music by: Pavel Nesit

Edited by: Valér Futej, Barbora Marková

Set design by: Zuzana Nevolová

Costumes by: Ema Dulíková

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