Action Item

SYNOPSIS:

In management, action items are tasks that must be performed to resolve an issue. But what if the issue is not individual, but systemic? In her second feature documentary, director Paula Ďurinová explores how personal experience of burnout shifts into collective sharing and awakening. Set in Berlin, Action Item transforms anxiety into resistance, reframing struggles through shared memory, found footage, and the politics of care. What if the real task is to unlearn, to pause, to reimagine?

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

>> 59th Karlovy Vary IFF / Proxima Competition (CZ)
>> 36th FIDMarseille / International Competition (FR)
>> 24th DokuFest IDSFF / International Feature Dox: Best Film Award (XK)
>> 20th Cinematik IFF / Cinematik.doc (SK)
>> 38th Finále Plzeň / Czech Traces (CZ)
>> 32nd Alexandre Trauner Art/Film Festival (HU)
>> 18th this human world IFF / Youth Day (AT)
>> 32nd Women Make Waves IFF / The Way Things Go: Notes on Existence (TW)
>> 54th Kyiv IFF Molodist / FORMA (UA)
>> 66th Festival dei Popoli / International Discoveries Competition (IT)
>> 28th RIDM – Montreal International Documentary Festival Festival / Panorama (CA)
>> 46th Cairo IFF / Special Screenings (EG)
>> 38th IDFA / Best of Fests (NL)
>> 7th MajorDocs IFF (ES)
>> 3rd DOC.Coimbra Festival / International Feature Competition (PT)

PRESENTED AT:

>> Producers meet Producers / FIPADOC (FR)
>> Industry Days / 28th IFF Febiofest Bratislava (SK)
>> CEE Panorama / 32nd Sunny Side of the Doc (FR)
>> New Visions Forum / 25th Ji.hlava IDFF (CZ)

DEVELOPED AT:

>> Dox In Vitro / 15th Cinematik IFF (SK)
>> Days of Change / 22th One World Bratislava FF (SK)

PRESS:

>> Cineuropa.org / Review: Action Item
>> Cineuropa.org / Paula Ďurinová • Director of Insides
>> Filmneweurope.com / See European projects in development selected for the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum 2021