The screening of Bedwetter and following discussion will take place as part of the FAMUFEST 40 festival.
Bedwetter / Jan Hušek / Czechia 2023 / 61 min. / Czech with English subtitles – Men still have a privileged position. Yet the concept of a “crisis of masculinity” is increasingly permeating the media, with a loosening of roles and a growing uncertainty about what it means to be a man today. The director Jan Hušek also asks this question. By the age of thirteen he was wetting himself, earning him the unflattering nickname of the film's title (Pochcanek means “the one who wets himself”). In his open video diary, he captures the physical and spiritual transformation of his journey from boy to man. He returns to the woods and the roots of childhood trauma. In doing so, he turns the camera on himself as well as on various teachers or his father. Perhaps the mark of adulthood, after all, is not overwrought masculinity, but the acceptance of the inner pisser.