Best Short Film: Sierra + Kingfisher Award: Safe Place

Cankarjev dom Cinema Best Short Film: Sierra + Kingfisher Award: Safe Place

Sierra
Estonia, 2022
Directed by Sander Joon; creenplay Sander Joon; animaton Henri Veermäe, Valya Paneva, Teresa Baroet, Sander Joon
format DCP, colour, running time 16'
A father and his son are losing the folkrace. In order to win, the boy turns himself into a car tire.

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Safe Place (Sigurno mjesto)

Directed by: Juraj Lerotić
Croatia, 2022, 102'
Screenplay: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens
Cinematography:Marko Brdar
Cast: Snježana Sinovčić Šiškov (mama/mother), Goran Marković (Damir), Juraj Lerotić (Bruno)

A traumatic event creates a rift in a family’s everyday existence. The autobiographical aspect of the story is highlighted by the fact that the author/director plays himself.

Damir and Bruno are brothers. Damir has just committed a failed suicide attempt. Bruno and their mother seek to protect Damir not just from himself, but also from the unsympathetic system consisting of rude and suspicious members of the police and the robotic, sometimes even arrogant medical personnel.

I based the film on a personal experience. As a filmmaker, I even find some fascination in the fact that the atrocity I lived through was even possible. Until this incident, I hadn’t realised that things could get out of control so quickly, so radically, without any warning or explanation. Slavoj Žižek was once asked why he published so extensively. He replied that in the process of writing he kept saying to himself he’d never publish it. I think I wrote this film in a similar way – I was telling myself I'd never shoot it. I even ended up acting in it. Juraj Lerotić

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