Country: Slovene
Year: 2024
Duration: 87'
Through the world of a strong, positive woman Manca Kosir, a hospice volunteer who speaks openly about dying, who survives cancer during the film, the viewer enters into a celebration of life. Manca’s intimate story takes us on a journey of accepting departure. For years Manca has her funeral speech ready, she has a plot in the cemetery as she believes death is part of life. Manca’s strongest characteristics are awareness of time and mortality.
Biography
film director
Nina Blažin
(1980) received her diploma in tv and film directing in 2006 from the National film Academy AGRFT. Her first full-length documentary How Much Do You Love Yourself? won a prize for the best documentary and a prize for editing in 2018 at the Slovene film Festival. The film was then selected for the festival Hot Docs2019 in Toronto. In 2014, she was selected for the international documentary workshop Aristoteles workshop association in cooperation with ARTE, CNC. She was the director of the film crew that made the short documentary Just the Two of Us, awarded and selected for international festivals. Her project Silence of Life was developed with the support of the international documentary workshops Eurodoc Novi Sad 2019 and Balkan Documentary Center 2020.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dan v mestu (cm, 2003), Sigmundove sanje (tv, 2004), Jan – Pomoč starejšim (2012), Energy Bits (2012), Just the Two of Us (cm, 2015), Koliko se ljubiš? (2018), V tišini življenja (Silence of Life, 2024).
Declaration
film director
“Motivation for the film is the loss of my father. The film explores the question of mortality and the time we have left. What is important in life? Manca Košir was a great promoter of palliative care and her story is the door to the research of departure. My personal experience of loss is also in the film. As a director, I wanted to leave room for viewers to explore their own experience of losing their loved ones. A story about time, departure, love and celebration of Life.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Nina Blažin. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Darko Herič. EDITING: Zlatjan Čučkov. MUSIC: Aldo Kumar. PRODUCER: Igor Pediče. PRODUCTION: Casablanca Film Production.
CONTACT: Slovenian Film Centre Nerina.Kocjancic@film-center.si
