Locarno review: Balls (2022)
The suggested implications are actually a bit frightening, since the football fandom is less about the game and the club, and it serves more as a pressure group and recruitment camp for sinister things.
Pardi di Domani
Locarno review: Mother Prays All Day Long (2022)
Two young women, one Persian immigrant and one German native, are in a relationship, but both of them have their personal “baggage” and agenda.
Rok Biček: “The football field always represents the world in a micro-cosmos”
I never thought that I would have a problem to get the finances for my next film in Slovenia, especially after the success of Class Enemy (Fedeora Award of Critics Week in Venice 2013) and The Family (Grand Prix at Locarno Critic’s Week in 2017)
Interview with Špela Čadež: “You challenge yourself by trying something for weeks, and then it suddenly opens up”
Domestic abuse is a very important subject to talk about. Even if we started making the film before all these lockdowns, the topic has become more important to address over the past year and a half.
Nicolaas Schmidt: “In First Time, the negotiated subject is at the same time the method of work”
The film refers to an everyday experience: inwardness and minimal „privacy“ amid public space by simply putting on headphones with music.
Review: Penalty Shot (2021)
In ‘Penalty Shot’, Biček demonstrates both his courage and elegance in the filmmaking approach.
Review: Steakhouse (2021)
‘Steakhouse’ by Špela Čadež is a mature, wonderfully executed animated short for adult audiences
Review: Neon Phantom (2021)
We might formally share the same country or the same world, but our perspectives of them vary. For instance, the world will never look the same for “haves” and for “have nots”.
Review: Strawberry Cheesecake (2021)
Smoking in high school is usually seen as an attention-seeking attempt at rebellion against the world of the clean-cut adults. In Singapore, however, smoking is strictly forbidden for youngsters as well as adults.
