Restore Point

AroView: A sleek, swiftly-paced science-fiction thriller from the Czech Republic, a first feature by director Robert Hloz that will likely beckon Hollywood.

It’s set in a 2041 (perhaps too soon?) where it’s possible, even standard, to have life restored after death provided you keep your insurance updated and you don’t have nefarious interests trying to engineer your un-restorable demise. A feisty but traumatized female detective investigates such a murder in a futuristic police procedural that has some fancy ideas among the familiar ones.

“With its looming, angular and alienating architecture, and thoroughly considered technological and ethical future landscape, this is a phenomenal and inventive piece of world-building from Prague-based director Robert Hloz.” ~Wendy Ide, Screen Daily

“Marrying glossy mainstream genre aesthetics to probing, elaborately conceived speculative storytelling, this is a notably ambitious and auspiciously well-realized first feature…” ~Guy Lodge, Variety