Only Beautiful Things to Look At

Only Beautiful Things to Look At, known in its original language as Pramen, is a Slovak-language film scheduled for release on July 5, 2026. Set in a district hospital in Slovakia during the late 1980s, the film follows Ingrid, a gynecologist whose personal and professional lives are entangled in quiet crisis. Her marriage has stalled, she is involved with a younger colleague at the hospital, and she sits on an abortion committee that routinely offers Roma women sterilization as a condition of receiving an approved abortion. The arrival of Agáta — an eighteen-year-old who grew up in a children's home and has come to the hospital to work as a nurse — draws Ingrid into an unexpected closeness that runs counter to the emotional distance defining the rest of her life. The film operates within a specific historical and institutional context, placing personal relationships against the backdrop of a documented practice of coercive sterilization of Roma women in socialist Czechoslovakia.