Slovak director Ivan Ostrochovský is planning a U.S. remake of “Only Beautiful Things to Look At.”
His latest drama, which premieres at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, is set in the 1980s and follows a doctor (Aňa Geislerová) who begins to question the forced sterilization of Romani women in former Czechoslovakia.
“This was happening all around the world,” he tells Variety.
His regular collaborator Katarína Tomková – who produced the film alongside Ostrochovský, Albert Malinovský, Pavel Strnad and Petr Oukropec for Punkchart Films and Negativ – has enrolled in the Global Media Makers Residency with Film Independent, which focuses on the business of filmmaking in the U.S.
“We have already conducted research and location scouting on Navajo Nation land in New Mexico, and we’re currently adapting the story to fit the local context. Between the 1970s and 1980s, the birth rate among Native Americans declined by an estimated 60%, and it’s believed that approximately 40% of Native American women were subjected to forced sterilization,” says Ostrochovský.
