DOCUMENTARY
concept & director: Andrina Mračnikar
Austria/Slovenia
DoP: Judith Benedikt
Editor: Gerhard Daurer
Sound: Julij Zornik, Bertram Knappitsch, William Eduard Franck, Andreas Hamza
composer: Peter Kutin
production manager: Natalija Hartmann
a co-production with Vertigo
producers: Jürgen Karasek, Danijel Hočevar
Status: distribution
national Premiere Austria: Diagonale 2022, WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD
national Premiere Slovenija: Kino Otok Izola 2022
international Premiere: FilmFestival Cottbus 2022
further awards and festivals: Festival des neuen Heimatfilms Freistadt 2022, Filmfestival Radstadt 2022, Dokudoc Maribor 2022, Festival of Slovenian Film Portorož 2022 (Winner: Vesna for special achievments), K3 Filmfestival Villach 2022, Austrian Film Week Israel 2023, Balkan Film Week Leipzig 2023, Biennale Bavaria Internat. 2023, Winner: Štiglič-Award by the Slovene Directors Guild, Winner: Butnskala Award AIPA, Screenings in: San Pietro al Natisone & Triest in cooperation with Kinoatelje.
distribution Austria: Filmdelights
cinema release Austria: 07.10.2022
cinema release Slovenija: 12.05.2023
DVD-Release: Edition Hoanzl „Der österreichische Film“ 2023
Logline:
Roughly ninety percent of the inhabitants in southern Carinthia spoke Slovenian prior to 1910. The average percentage today is in the single digits. In her essayistic documentary, Andrina Mračnikar gives a personal shape to a highly political urgency. What happens when a first language is taken from daily life? What must politics do to counter the disappearance of a language whose protection is established in the constitution? (Diagonale, Astrid Peterle)
www.verschwinden-izginjanje.com
production funded by Bundeskanzleramt für Kunst & Kultur, ORF Film-/Fernsehabkommen, CarinthiJA2020 (Land Kärnten), Filmstandort Österreich, Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich, Slovene Film Center, Viba Film Studios, RTV Slovenija,
Participation at: Dok.fest Munich Marketplace, Re-Act Workshop Trieste
