AMBRELA
BLOCK 5
DIRECTOR: Klemen Dvornik
COUNTRY: Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Czech Republic
YEAR/DURATION: 2024. • 79′
children’s film
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Dora Šustić
- EDITOR: Ivana Fumić
- PRODUCTION DESIGN: Miha Knific
- COSTUME DESIGN: Katarina Šavs
- SOUND: Lukáš Ujčík
- SCORE: Davor Herceg
- CAST: Davor Herceg
ULOGE Kaja Zabret, Kaja Šuštar, Youri Friderich, Niko Lemark, David Trontelj, Marko Mandić - PRODUCERS: Barbara Daljavec, Branislav Srdić
- PRODUCTION COMPANY: AATALANTA (Slovenia)
- CO-PRODUCED BY: December (Slovenia), Bfilm (Czech Republic), Antitalent (Croatia), Living Pictures (Serbia)
- DISTRIBUTION: Hulahop
Festivals and awards
Locarno Film Festival 2024 – Locarno Kids
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024.
Sarajevo Film Festival 2024
Cottbus Festival of East European Cinema 2024
Synopsis
When 12-year-old Alma discovers that her father’s company plans to demolish the nearby playground and turn it into a parking lot, she has no choice but to join forces with her adversary Luna and Luna’s skate gang. They have a week to save the playground, and failure is not an option. The fight to save the playground turns into a story of unity.
Trailer
About the director
Klemen Dvornik (Novo Mesto, 1977) is a Slovenian director and producer. After finishing high school in 1996, he enrolled in the study of film and television directing at AGRFT at Ljubljana. In 2010, he filmed his debut feature film Bread and Games, which won the Audience Award at the Festival of Slovenian Film. His biggest internationally success was the TV series The Lake (2019), which premiered globally at the Sarajevo Film Festival. As a producer, he signed the feature-length documentary Sine Legibus (2019) directed by Milena Olip, which won the Grand Prix at the DocuDok festival, and the short fiction film How I Learned to Hang Laundry (2023), which received the Partner Prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Since 2017, he has been an assistant professor of television directing at AGRFT, University of Ljubljana.
Screening
- AMBRELA – SUNDAY 13.7.2024.
21:30
FREE ENTRANCE
