Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

SELITEV

A NEW HOME

Žiga Virc
Slovenia, 2016, 14 Min

“All My Dreams Are Coming” is playing on the radio. The nightmare becomes reality when the elegant female protagonist's paranoia about the latest group of refugees pursues her into an empty, unfinished highrise building. Psychological thriller about the projections onto the unknown.

The 30-year-old female protagonist reaches in panic for the light switch when she sees the dark silhouette of a man in the empty house opposite. She immediately remembers that there is a refugee tent camp not far from her chic new housing estate. She frantically runs through the flat, locks the door, and hallucinates that the unknown man will kill her. Is everything just a nightmare or is it reality after all?

Director Žiga Virc (HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!, FFC 2016) is adept at exaggeration in his portrayal of the paranoid fears of threat from strangers, something that is not only restricted to Slovenian society. A fascinating symmetry of images and the camera's suggestive first-person perspective make A NEW HOME a fascinating psychoanalytical thriller about the fragile relationship determined by prejudices and threat scenarios between Central Europeans and refugees at the height of the so-called “refugee crisis”. FK

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / Colour
Drehbuch
Žiga Virc, Boštjan Virc
Kamera
Darko Herič, ZFS
Ton
Matjaž Moraus Zdešar
Schnitt
Vladimir Gojun
Ausstattung
Miha Ferkov
Musik
Matjaž Moraus Zdešar
Darsteller
Nina Rakovec, Jernej Campelj
Produzent
Bostjan Virc
Produktion
STUDIO VIRC; Boštjan Virc; Ilke Vaštetove 15, 8000 Novo mesto, Slovenia bostjan@studio virc.si info@studio virc.si +386 41 689 463
Kontakt
Salaud Morisse
Francois Morisset
Schoenhauser Allee 8,
10119 Berlin,
GERMANY
festival@salaudmorisset.com
+ 49 1 52 25 19 23 3
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Movies
HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM! (2016, FFC 2016)