It’s about playing, about the beauty of the game and the men that play it. They play, deadly seriously, yet with airy joy somewhere by the Mediterranean. In a time that may or may not be ours. Wrestling, rolling a cheese through village streets or the rapid-fire reciting of the right numbers are occupations of the highest importance. Filmmaker shots everything with serious lightness until he hits a creative block...
Awards:
GEORGES DE BEAUREGARD International Prize, FID Marseille 2017, France
BEST DOCUMENTARY, 20. Festival slovenskega filma, Slovenia
PRIX D’AIDE À LA DISTRIBUTION CINÉ, Entrevues Belfort - Festival International du Film 2017, France
PRÊMIO OLHAR, Olhar de Cinema - Festival Internacional de Curitiba 2018, Brazil
ARTISTIC VISION AWARD, 20. DOCAviv, Israel
SPECIAL JURRY MENTION, 4th Pančevo IFF, Serbia
SPECIAL MENTION, ZagrebDox 2018, Croatia
SPECIAL MENTION, IsReal - Festival di Cinema del Reale 2018, Italy
MASLAČAK AWARD, Underhill Fest 2018, Montenegro
SPECIAL MENTION, MakeDox 2018, Macedonia
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A film by Matjaž Ivanišin
Cinematography by Gregor Božič
Produced by Marina Gumzi
Co-produced by Vanja Jambrović and Tibor Keser
Produced with the support of Slovenian film centre and Croatian Audiovisual Centre between 2015 and 2017.
Language: Slovene, Croatian, Italian, German
Subtitles: English, French
Color: Colour
Shooting format: 16MM, S8MM
Festivals: FID Marseille, Rotterdam IFF, Sarajevo Film Festival, Belfort Entrevues Film Festival, Centre Pompidou Paris, Museum of the Moving Images NY, Auteur Film Festival Belgrade, ZagrebDox, True/False, Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz, Indie Lisboa, Documenta Madrid, Docaviv, Olhar de Cinema, DokuFest Prizren, Les États généraux du Film Documentaire, MakeDox, Milwaukee Film Festival, etc.
NOSOROGI, Restart, 2017
