ACTION ITEM

NEPLATENÉ VOĽNO

Paula Ďurinová • Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany • 2025 • 69 min. • 4K

SYNOPSIS

In management, action items are tasks that must be performed to move forward. But what if the issue is not individual, but systemic? 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, reimagine?

TRAILER

AWARDS

Best Film Award | International Feature Dox
DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival. Kosovo (2025)

FESTIVALS & ALTERNATIVE SCREENINGS

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | Proxima Competition. Czech Republic (2025)
FIDMarseille International Film Festival | International Competition. France (2025)
Cinematik International Film Festival Piešťany. Slovakia (2025)
Women Make Waves International Film Festival. Taiwan (2025)

PRESS

"An intriguing portrait of the modern workforce."

ICS • by Matthew Joseph Jenner

"Constantly fascinating, especially in the way it tries to capture that which cannot be named, it is a powerful and personal work."

Journey Into Cinema • by Redmond Bacon

"A quietly radical, emotionally textured, and visually meditative film."

Film Fest Report • by Prachi Bari

"An exploratory and pointedly sensory work."

Modern Times • by Carmen Gray

"Action Item shows that burnout is not simply an individual psychological issue, but rather a symptom of a system that pathologizes what ought to be a matter of collective discourse."

Caligari • by Kristine Balduzzi (In Spanish Only)

"Experimental, existential and ultimately political, is distinguished for its solid concentration but also for its imaginative perspective."

Cinephilia • by Zoe-Myrto Rigopoulou (In Greek Only)

"Action Item is concerned with the internalised effects of late-capitalist pressure and the bureaucratic apparatuses that shape mental well-being"

Cineuropa • by Martin Kudláč

CREW

DIRECTOR & SCREENWRITER
Paula Ďurinová

PRODUCER
Matej Sotník (guča films)

CO-PRODUCERS
Klára Mamojková (CLAW)
Wanda Kaprálová (CLAW)
Roman Genský (Slovak Radio and Television)

CINEMATHOGRAPHERS
Darya Chernyak
Radka Šišuláková
Clara Becking
Paula Ďurinová

EDITOR
Deniz Şimşek
Paula Ďurinová

SCRIPT EDITORS
Viera Čákanyová
Martin Horyna

SOUND DESIGNERS
Clara Becking
Paula Ďurinová

CAST
Eliana Malena Bussas
Jasmine Prim
Paloma Schnitzer
Alžběta
Sam Parfitt

MUSIC
Lenka Adamcová

COLOUR GRADING
Dominik Jursa

FESTIVALS & SALES
María Vera (KINO REBELDE)