Only Beautiful Things to Look At (2026)
Pramen
Director: Ivan Ostrochovský
Cast: Anna Geislerová, Eva Mores, Vlad Ivanov, Éva Bandor
Did you know? Ingrid’s character was inspired by real-life accounts of coerced sterilizations of Romani women in Czechoslovakia during the late 1980s, a practice that remained largely unpunished for decades.
Why Watch: Haunting and timely, *Only Beautiful Things to Look At* is a quietly devastating Slovak drama that uses a gynecologist’s sterile, complicit life to dissect power, desire, and the brutal ethics of systemic sterilization. With a mesmerizing performance at its core, the film transforms a cold hospital into a crucible of moral compromise, where a fragile bond between two women becomes a rare, aching glimpse of humanity. Watch it for its unflinching, artful look at how beauty and horror can coexist in the same frame—and how the personal is always political.
In 1980s Slovakia, gynecologist Ingrid navigates a stagnant marriage and a secret affair with a younger colleague at her district hospital. After hours, she serves on an abortion committee that pressures Roma women into sterilization. When 18-year-old Agáta, raised in a children’s home, arrives as a new nurse, an unexpected bond forms between the two women.