ACTION ITEM
SYNOPSIS
Set in Berlin, the film explores symptoms of a silenced condition of our time. A reflection on burnout moves from personal experience to a collective perspective. “Action Item” is a possibility to transform anxiety into resistance, reframing struggles through shared memory, found footage, and the politics of care. What if the real task is to unlearn, pause or reimagine?
Spanish premiere. With the presence of the director.
Why must you see it?
With a story told in the first person, Paula Ďurinová takes us on the journey through a silent mental health epidemic that affects our society. By comparing his own experience to that of others’, she reveals this unease’s systemic nature, which is the embodiment of the violence inherent in late capitalism. With a deeply political gesture, the movie shows a possible way out of anxiety paralysis: channeling collective pain into transformative rage, but the potential of resistance and change.
Margot Mecca
Paula Ďurinová
Paula Ďurinová (1987). Slovak director, visual artist, curator and writer based in Berlin. Her first feature-length "Lapilli" (2024) premiered at Karlovy Vary IFF and was selected at DOK Leipzig, RIDM and Trieste. She worked as Artistic director of ACUD Galerie and studied Art and Media at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Her second film "Action Item" (2025) premiered at KVIFF and FIDMarseille.
Year: 2025
Country: Slovaquia, Czech Republic, and Germany
Length: 69 min
Language: English
Subtitles: Spanish
Director: Paula Ďurinová
Production: Matej Sotník
Editor: Deniz Şimşek, Paula Ďurinová
