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Sugar

Czech Republic | 2019 | 25 min. | director: Tereza Vejvodová | DoP: Tomáš Frkal | screenplay: Tereza Vejvodová | cast: Ruth Magdaléna Schmidtová, Jan Vondráček, Petr Jeřábek 

Eighteen-year-old Marie is trying to cut herself loose. She lives with her boyfriend, but secretly works as a “sugarbaby” keeping older men company. But then these two “worlds” become too entwined. A short film exploring the theme of closeness as a commodity in a society where capitalist principles rub off onto personal relationships.