{"id":4147,"date":"2019-11-28T04:30:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T02:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2019-11-29T18:09:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T16:09:33","slug":"after-festival-neues-slowenisches-kino-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/index.php\/after-festival-neues-slowenisches-kino-v\/","title":{"rendered":"AFTER NEUES SLOWENISCHES KINO V. FESTIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

The past weekend in Berlin was all in the name of the\u00a0Neues Slowenisches Kino V<\/a>\u00a0<\/i><\/b>organised by the\u00a0Periskop Berlin<\/a>.<\/b>\u00a0Cosy evenings in Kino Sputnik were not only filled with well-crafted films, music acts and a photography exhibition, but also bitter-sweet emotions were awoken by the common thread of millennial generation fighting for its spot under the sun.
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\nUr\u0161a Menart\u2019s <\/b>masterpiece <\/span>My Last Year as a Loser (Ne bom ve\u010d luzerka)<\/i><\/b><\/a> screened on Friday and immediately set out the mood for the entire festival. Looking at the photos of <\/span>The most beautiful city in the world<\/i><\/b> captured by <\/span>Matja\u017e Ru\u0161t<\/b> and <\/span>Robert Marin<\/b> made us all feel melancholically nostalgic. After a social gathering of many Slovenians living in Berlin, some of which\u00a0<\/span>drive in as creators and a few internationals as significant others further reenacted the setting of a casual Friday night in Ljubljana\u2019s Kinodvor rather than a shabby chic bar on a Kreuzberg\u2019s rooftop with Niko Novak\u2019s<\/b> deep blues sounding in the background.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Matja\u017e Ru\u0161t<\/p><\/div>\n

The Menart\u2019s lead story is a story that many of us millennials can deeply relate to. Well-insighted plot bitter-sweetly reminds us of battles that we need(ed) to fight to succeed or survive in Ljubljana, swinging from hope to despair at all times. Trying to live up to the expectation that our parents kind-intentionally set out for us or to loose tightropes of those whose starting lives are long secured. Slovenia\u2019s potential is much too often just a waste land that is hard to be taken over by fresh generations under current rigid rules of authorities. It makes it even harder when most of your peers, mostly gems of the generation, are long scattered across the world despite the fact that \u201cover there\u201d is often even harder. As one of the characters in Menart\u2019s film humorously sums up: \u201c<\/span>It\u2019s better to be a waitress in Berlin, than to be a waitress in Ljubljana.<\/span><\/i>\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo: Matja\u017e Ru\u0161t<\/p><\/div>\n

A quest of millennials continued into Saturday\u2019s superb selection of short films of <\/span>Ljubljana short film festival (FeKK)<\/i><\/b><\/a>. <\/span>Peter Cerov\u0161ek\u2019s <\/b>film <\/span>Fundaments (Fundamenti)<\/i><\/b> is yet another beautiful contrast of those who are trying to fill the emptiness by building something new and those who would rather move on. <\/span>We should all be going somewhere<\/i><\/b> (S\u010dasoma)<\/i><\/b><\/a> is what \u201clost souls\u201d are telling each other, especially in the forgotten parts of Slovenia depicted in the short film by <\/span>Aron Horv\u00e1th <\/b>and short experimental <\/span>In my younger years (Dere sen jas mali bija)<\/i><\/b> by <\/span>Tina \u0160\u010davni\u010dar. <\/b>Journey of going somewhere also includes going inwards. It could be a poetic imaginative escape from the cold-hearted Slovenian mother figure as in the <\/span>Nellie (Ne\u017eka)<\/i><\/b> by Gaja M\u00f6derndorfer, <\/b>brutal disruption of your own mind as the <\/span>Memory Maschine (Ma\u0161ina spomina)<\/i><\/b> by <\/span>Kristina Kokalj <\/b>or a telepathic whispers to those who do not listen as in the <\/span>Ester Ivaki\u0107\u2019s<\/b> signature short film<\/span>. Sandra Jovanovska<\/b> takes it even further in her animated<\/span> Soma (Soma)<\/i><\/b>: <\/b>our wants and needs are a drug that both elevate and destroy us. Yet doing nothing out of fear and respect will kill you as <\/span>Bla\u017e Kutin<\/b> underlines with his quirky cinematic short <\/span>The final day of Rudolf Nietsche <\/i><\/b>(Poslednji dan Rudolfa <\/i><\/b>Nietscheja).<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The second day of the festival was concluded by <\/span>Darko \u0160tante\u2019s <\/b>Consequences (Posledice)<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0which served an emotionally intense plot of a lost millennial that keeps being molded into outdated systems, rejected by his unforgiving mother and finally by himself after trying to live as his authentic-self for a few short moments.
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\nThe festival concluded on a high note – starting with a live poetry reading of Lidija Dimkovska <\/b>(Schwarz auf Wei\u00df)<\/i><\/b> and Jure Jakob<\/b> (Werkst\u00fcckhen)<\/i><\/b>, followed by the music film Remains \u2013 Confessions to the ghost<\/i><\/b> by Matev\u017e Jerman <\/b>in Nik Novak<\/b> and ending with the beautiful drama History of Love (Zgodovina ljubezni)<\/i><\/b><\/a> by Sonja Prosenc. <\/b>The latter once again brought to the surface a classical Slovenian mother figure whose traumatic absence triggers almost dreamlike epopee of her daughter\u2019s Iva through deep sadness, self-discovery and final release. Leaving us with soft believing that everything can be conquered – even as millenials in Slovenia.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo: Matja\u017e Ru\u0161t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The past weekend in Berlin was all in the name of the\u00a0Neues Slowenisches Kino V\u00a0organised by the\u00a0Periskop Berlin.\u00a0Cosy evenings in Kino Sputnik were not only filled with well-crafted films, music acts and a photography exhibition, but also bitter-sweet emotions were awoken by the common thread of millennial generation fighting for its spot under the sun. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":4148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,20,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4162,"href":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/4162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}