A director falls into a deep personal and creative crisis in the middle of a film shoot. Games and historical variations thereof are the starting point for this essay, which explores traditions, identity and masculinity through details that reveal acts of competition, love, violence, brotherhood, power, pathological lying and memory. (RS)
- The Directors’ Guild of Slovenia - Štiglic Gaze Award for Exceptional Direction and Best Feature Length Documentary Director (2018)
- Zagrebdox - Regional Competition Special Mention (2018)
- FID Marseille - Georges de Beauregard International Prize (2017)
- Festival Internacional de Cine, Peru - Best Film and Best Transcinema (2017)
- Sarajevo Film Festival (2017)
- Pančevo Film Festival - Special Jury Mention (2017)
- Festival of Slovenian Film - Vesna Awards for Best Documentary (2017)
- Belfort Entrevues Film Festival - International Competition (2017)
Matjaž Ivanišin
He is a writer and director. The short films he made while studying at the Slovene National Film School and the medium-length documentaries he directed after his graduation in 2007 have been screened at numerous festivals around the world and have received numerous awards.
Filmography:
Every Good Story is a Love Story (2017), co-directed with Rajko Grli; Little Houses (2014), co-directed with Darko Sinko; Karpotrotter (2013); Šentilj-Spielfeld (2009); Quick View (2005); Che Sara (2002).