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)
AT/SI, 2022, 99 MIN
Credits
Concept & Director Andrina Mračnikar
DoP Judith Benedikt
Editor Gerhard Daurer
Sound Julij Zornik, Bertram Knappitsch, William Eduard Franck, Andreas Hamza
Composer Peter Kutin
Production Manager Natalija Hartmann
Producers Jürgen Karasek, Danijel Hočevar (SI)
Co-production Vertigo (SI)
Awards / Festivals
Winner Audience Award Diagonale 2022 – nationale Premiere
Winner Vesna for Special Achievments Festival of Slovenian Film Portorož 2022
Winner Štiglič-Award by the Slovene Directors Guild
Winner Butnskala Award AIPA
Kino Otok Izola 2022 – national Premiere Slovenia
FilmFestival Cottbus 2022 – international Premiere
Festival des neuen Heimatfilms Freistadt 2022
Filmfestival Radstadt 2022
Dokudoc Maribor 2022
K3 Filmfestival Villach 2022
Austrian Film Week Israel 2023
Balkan Film Week Leipzig 2023
Biennale Bavaria Internat. 2023
Screenings in: San Pietro al Natisone & Triest in coopearation with Kinoatelje
Funding
Production funded by Austrian Ministry for Culture and Arts, ORF Film-/Fernsehabkommen, CarinthiJA2020 (Country of Carinthia), Filmstandort Österreich, Zukunftsfonds of the Republic of Austria, Slovene Film Center, Viba Film Studios, RTV Slovenija