I know it is a form of erasure, to make something that is not in any way about you, about you. But I do it anyway. Because I am lonely, literally isolated, and frankly fed up. And so, at best, in an effort to connect, I make everything about me.
Erwin is one of a large amount of films that Soldat has completed in 2020 (many of which evocative titles such as For fuck’s sake, Christian, we’re making a porn film and The Wanker) and continues with the style for which he has become notorious.
Marit Weerheijm’s script is cleverly constructed in the way that there is no explanation whatsoever: we have to follow the trip in order to realize what Inay’s “game” is about.
Mysterious in its main build-up, the narrative doesn’t disappoint by meeting the viewers expectations as to where it’s going.
Filmed in a boxy 4:3 ratio, the film amplifies the anxiety and the existential dread its protagonist is facing.
Nine Months premiered at the Checkers competition of Zagreb Film Festival, highlighting the irony that Lukić playing himself as the protagonist here once again wears the festival T-shirt in every frame of the film.
Grba Singh and his crew played with almost every aspect of filmmaking, making Tesaurus one of the most complex shorts of the year, topically and technically.
David Pinhiero Vincente’s sophomore short The Lamb Of God is based on the stories he was told by his father who came from the village of Solheira where the film was shot, to be precise – in the very house he had spent his childhood in. T
Anton Sazonov’s strong and distressful short fiction film Leave of Absence premiered at the last year’s edition of Locarno, where it was awarded for the best direction in Leopards of the Future competition.
