Section: Children's Film

Igrišča ne damo!

BLOCK 5

Klemen Dvornik
SI, CZ, HR, RS, 2024, 79 Min

When 12-year-old Alma finds out that the playground and skate park near her home is to be replaced by a parking lot, she decides to intervene. Unable to achieve much on her own, she has to join forces with neighbour and rival Luna and her skater gang. And time is running out; only a week remains until the skate park is to be demolished…

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Performance

2024-11-08 | 10:00
Stadthalle

Alma's mother, an environmental activist and photojournalist, has died. This makes it all the more important for her to continue her mother’s work and campaign for the environment. To this end she has, however, to stand up to her father since he, of all people, is involved in the plans to build the parking lot. For Alma's neighbour - the tomboyish Luna, with whom Alma doesn't get on particularly well - skating also means everything, which is why she does everything in her power to ensure that the playground and skate park are not demolished. They share a common goal and have to work together to achieve it – and thus soon realise that they are not so different after all. Yet little time remains for her and her fellow campaigners to save their favorite spot. When their protest fails, they resolve to disable the excavators by stealing their most valuable parts - the generators.

In Croatia, the campaign #GibanjeZaGibanje (Movement for Movement) was launched in parallel with the film's release. Developed jointly by the film team and the creative studio Trampolin, it aimed at getting children and adolescents away from screens of all kinds and encouraging them to exercise outdoors. The campaign also features Croatian rapper Nipke and producer Damjan Jović, who together wrote a song - an ode to the importance of exercise and growing up healthily, a major issue in today's society – for the film.

Text: Anke Donnerstag

08.11.2024 | 10:00 | Stadthalle (original version with English subtitles + simultaneous translation into German)

Drehbuch
Dora Šustić
Kamera
David Hofmann
Ton
Lukáš Ujčík
Schnitt
Ivana Fumić
Musik
Davor Herceg
Produzent
Barbara Daljavec; Branislav Srdić
Produktion
A Atalanta
Co-Produktion
Peter Badač and Jakub Rálek (BFILM.cz, Czech Republic) Danijel Pek and Katarina Prpić (Antitalent, Croatia) Dimče Stojanovski and Stefan Orlandić Stojanovski (Living Pictures, Serbia)
Klemen Dvornik

Klemen Dvornik - Klemen Dvornik is a film director from Slovenia, born in 1977 in Novo Mesto, Slovenia.

He holds a degree in Film and TV directing from the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana.

He began his career directing music videos and commercials before moving on to multi-camera live music performances and entertainment shows.

Since 2010 he has focused on fiction, documentary film and TV series. He has received numerous awards for his work. He is most known to the general public as the director of one of the most successful Slovenian series The Lake (2019) that premiered at Sarajevo film Festival 2019.

He is an active member of various professional associations (FERA, Slovenian Federation of Filmmakers’ Guilds, Directors Guild of Slovenia, AIPA), and since 2016 he has been a teaching fellow at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, University of Ljubljana.

His film Block 5 was selected for 77th Locarno Kids Screenings.

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