Nothing Like Before / Nic jako dřív
Czech Republic 2017

One boy and four girls, all high school students living in the poverty-stricken border town of Varnsdorf; three stories of coming of age and serious decision-making where graduation is by no means the only turning point looming ahead in these young adults´ lives.
This lovely, genre-defying documentary by Lukáš Kokeš and Klára Tasovská presents its stories with sociological scope and precision – investigating regional and social fringes and observing forms of precariat "in the making" – and a great deal of understanding for its protagonists – depicting their schooling, clubbing, parties and family and creating intimate and emphatic portraits of these young people and the burden of their dreams and prospects.