Housing Benefit
This stylised short film follows the unexpected intertwining of the fates of a young man, who applies for housing benefit during the day, and the clerk who processes his application. When they meet by chance in a bar that evening and events take an unexpected turn, they both end up in his flat. During their late-night conversation, the clerk reveals the absurdity of her daily work at the office – a world full of nonsensical rules, powerlessness and alienation, which is disturbingly reminiscent of a Kafkaesque labyrinth. This intimate drama, laced with black humour, shows that the victims of bureaucracy are not only its clients, but also those who carry it out.
Cast
Anežka Rusevová
as Květa
Filip Týc
as Zbyněk
Štěpán Coufal
as Marián Tureček
Štěpánka Pencová
as Vrátná
Tomáš Karab
as Úředník
Lucie Volhejnová
as Úřednice
Bára Veselá
as Žadatelka 1
Viera Pavlíková
as Žadatelka 2
Michal Kolář
as Žadatel
Jakub Haubert
as Spolubydlící
