Director/screenwriter Mira Fornay is one of Slovakia’s most internationally celebrated and awarded filmmakers. Her 2013 film My Dog Killer won the Tiger Hivos Award in the main competition at the prestigious Rotterdam IFF, along with many other Slovak and international prizes. In Cook F**k Kill, her latest picture, she uses her unique cinematic language to capture a single day in the life of Jaroslav K. and his immediate family. Jaroslav is fighting for custody of his children, and to get them from his wife Blanka, he has to contend not only with his dominant mother Dorota, but above all with his own demons. Structured like a video game, his metaphorical journey forces him to sacrifice much more than any viewer might expect. The action plays out on the frontiers of dream and reality, where the world of raw instinct mingles with phantoms from the past and unfulfilled desires. At times, the narrative aesthetic metamorphizes, taking on disturbing, Lynchian dimensions.