Daughters of the Flood is a visually and thematically multi-layered film that weaves together an intimate family story with mythology and ecological-political commentary.

At the heart of the narrative are three generations of women—a daughter, a mother, and a grandmother—whose dialogues and memories intertwine with semi-fictional television reports on floods, archival footage of raging waters, and animated sequences featuring aquatic creatures.

The film oscillates between realism, allegory, and the grotesque, raising questions about the role of women in times of climate crisis, the loss of home, and humanity’s relationship to water as an element with its own intelligence. The women confront their own traumas, family conflicts, and intergenerational memory, which spans from the Inquisition to contemporary ecological devastation.

The film is a polyphonic collage—it interweaves documentary elements with mythology, family memories with political activism, and personal crisis with environmental themes. The result is a parable about water as an unstoppable element, as a mirror of social and generational tensions, and as a call for emancipation and the search for new paths on both the individual and collective levels.

Screenplay and Direction: Marie Lukáčová & Karina Kottová
Cast: Nela Boudová, Lucie Domesová, Věra Janků, Soňa Linhartová, Matěj Samec, Jarmila Vlčková
Cinematography: Michal Blecha
Editing: Marie Lukáčová
Costume Design: Jaroslava Pecharová
Production: Ivana Horváthová