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History of Love

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

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. Sonja Prosenc’s movie is dominated by a distinctive poetic that attacks the viewer’s senses, as well as by a narratively loose style and an ability to construct a story with the aid of the subtlest of suggestions.

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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

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)

Contacts

Monoo
Kvedrova cesta 36, 1000, Ljubljana
Slovenia
Phone: +386 418 657 51
E-mail: [email protected]

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Guests

Rok Sečen
Producer

Nerina Kocjancić
Film Institution Rep.

Nataša Bučar
Film Institution Rep.

Sonja Prosenc
Film Director, Screenwriter

Paolo Vidali
Film Institution Rep.

Jarle Bjørknes
Producer

Kristoffer Joner
Actor

Nadia Trevisan
Producer

Doroteja Nadrah
Actress

Mitja Ličen
Director of Photography

Alberto Fasulo
Associate Producer

Claudia Soranzo
Film Crew

Matej Zemljič
Actor

Matija Vastl
Actor

Nastja Kotnik Minik
Line-producer

Urška Comino
Publicist

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