Tiny Lights

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Tiny Lights

2024

1h 15m

Drama

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Six-year-old Amálka is shut out of a family argument. She spends an idyllic afternoon at the lake with her grandparents and later learns the fuss was about her mother's plan to break away and live as an artist in Prague.

Wendy Ide

Screen International

The third picture from Beata Parkanova is a finely cut gem of a film, a beguiling child’s eye view of a disintegrating marriage presented with a crystalline delicacy.

Jul 17, 2024

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Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

Parkanova maintains tight control over her material, making us fully identify with little Amalka and her preoccupations.

Jul 11, 2024

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Robert Daniels

RogerEbert.com

This is one of those few child performances that doesn’t feel rehearsed to death or trite. It’s thoughtfully conceived, aching, and relatable.

Jul 11, 2024

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Tiny Lights itself is good as far as it goes, but in the end I wasn’t convinced it might have worked just as well or better as a short of one-third the length or less.

Jul 18, 2025

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Josh Bell

Crooked Marquee

It takes an extraordinary leap of faith for a filmmaker to place an entire film in the hands of a child actor, and that risk pays off beautifully in Czech writer-director Beata Parkanová's affecting drama.

Rated: B+

Jul 8, 2025

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Paul Emmanuel Enicola

The Movie Buff

The film’s greatest achievement is how it places us in Amálka’s shoes, making us feel the uncertainty she doesn’t yet have words for.

Rated: B

Feb 17, 2025

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Synopsis

Six-year-old Amálka is shut out of a family argument. She spends an idyllic afternoon at the lake with her grandparents and later learns the fuss was about her mother's plan to break away and live as an artist in Prague.

Director: Beata Parkanová
Producer: Vojtech Fric
Screenwriter: Beata Parkanová
Distributor: Film Movement
Production Co: Love.FRAME, Bontonfilm Studios, Azyl Production
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Czech
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 11, 2025
Runtime: 1h 15m