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Half-Sister

Official Selection - Competition 2019 / Polsestra / Slovenia, North Macedonia, Serbia 2019

Half-sisters who were never that close are forced by circumstance to share a flat in Ljubljana... The leading Slovene director returns to Karlovy Vary with a remarkably precise study of alienation and the inability to communicate, in a film characterised by polished dialogue, plenty of black humour and entirely natural performances.

Half-Sister Half-Sister

Synopsis

Half-sisters from a small coastal town who were never that close are forced by circumstance to share a flat in Ljubljana... The leading Slovene director returns to Karlovy Vary with a remarkably precise study of alienation and the inability to communicate. The script was co-written by Kozole’s regular collaborator Ognjen Sviličić and screenwriter and director Urša Menart, who also plays one of the sisters in the film. The work is characterised by polished dialogue, a liberal dose of black humour and entirely natural performances. The director on his film: “We live in dangerous times in which lunatics and psychopaths prosper – and therefore all that we have left is compassion. That and humour.”

Lenka Tyrpáková

About the film

105 min / Color, DCP
World premiere

Director Damjan Kozole / Screenplay Damjan Kozole, Urša Menart, Ognjen Sviličić / Dir. of Photography Miladin Čolaković / Editor Jurij Moškon, Atanas Georgiev / Art Director Neža Zinajić / Producer Danijel Hočevar, Labina Mitevska, Jelena Mitrović / Production Vertigo / Coproduction Sisters and Brother Mitevski, Film House Baš Čelik, RTV Slovenia / Cast Urša Menart, Liza Marijina, Jurij Drevenšek, Peter Musevski, Anja Novak, Labina Mitevska, Damjana Černe / Contact Vertigo, Marijana Harder

About the director

Damjan Kozole

Damjan Kozole (b. 1964, Brežice, Slovenia, Yugoslavia). Selected filmography: The Fatal Telephone Call (Usodni telefon, 1987), Porno Film (2000), Spare Parts (Rezervni deli, 2003), Labour Equals Freedom (Delo osvobaja, 2005), Slovenian Girl (Slovenka, 2009), Nightlife (Nočno življenje, 2016), Half-Sister (Polsestra, 2019)

Contacts

Vertigo
Metelkova 6, SI - 1000, Ljubljana
Slovenia
Phone: +386 143 970 80
E-mail: [email protected]

Publicity contact

Marijana Harder
Phone: +491 777 942 871
E-mail: [email protected]

Press kit


Press kit


Guests

Danijel Hočevar
Producer, Tutor / Trainer

Urša Menart
Actress, Screenwriter

Liza Marijina
Actress

Ognjen Sviličić
Screenwriter

Jurij Drevenšek
Actor

Labina Mitevska
Actress, Co-producer

Damjan Kozole
Film Director

Marijana Harder
Publicist

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