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History of Love

Official Selection - Competition 2018 / Zgodovina ljubezni / Slovenia, Italy, Norway 2018

Synopsis

Seventeen-year-old Iva is in the process of coming to terms with the death of her mother. Influenced by this deep personal loss and by the discovery that she didn’t know everything about her mom, the girl slowly immerses herself into a strange, almost dreamlike world far from reality. After her internationally successful debut The Tree (KVIFF 2014), Sonja Prosenc returns to Karlovy Vary with her second picture, in which she continues to develop a boldly constructed and distinctive poetic that attacks the viewer’s senses, as well as a narratively loose style and an ability to put a story together with the aid of the subtlest of suggestions. The movie presents a rising star of Slovenian film, Doroteja Nadrah, in the role of Iva, and her onscreen partner is the charismatic Norwegian actor Kristoffer Joner.

Lenka Tyrpáková

About the film

105 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Sonja Prosenc / Screenplay Sonja Prosenc / Dir. of Photography Mitja Ličen / Editor Frida Eggum Michaelsen / Art Director Vasja Kokelj / Producer Rok Sečen, Sonja Prosenc / Production Monoo / Coproduction Nefertiti Film, Incitus Films / Cast Doroteja Nadrah, Kristoffer Joner, Zita Fusco, Matej Zemljič, Zoja Florjanc Lukan, Matija Vastl / Contact Monoo
www: http://monoo.si/index.php/portfolio-item/history-of-love-zgodovina-ljubezni/

About the director

Sonja Prosenc (b. 1977, Slovenj Gradec, Yugoslavia). Filmography: Free Spirited Friend (Nič novega, nič pretiranega, 2005, short), Morning (Jutro, 2012, short), A Man with a Raven (Mož s krokarjem, 2012, medium-length doc.), The Tree (Drevo, 2014), History of Love (Zgodovina ljubezni, 2018)