CITY LIGHTS

short film
production December
coproduction Nuframe, Zvokarna, Film servis, RTV Slovenija
writer Goran Vojnović
director Klemen Dvornik

synopsis:
A day after the big protest, there is still a sense of tension in the air. An old gentleman who cannot remember where he is going gets into Roman’s taxi. Roman tries to help him, but the suggestions he offers take the old man further back into the past and revive the old man’s dispute with his son. Through his broken account, a sad story of a gulf between two worlds, two times and two generations gradually emerges. The old man is a retired professor of Marxism, while his son Borut is a banker. Roman does not belong to either of the feuding worlds in the story, the Marxist one which used to be in power or the banking one that is dominant today. He can only observe the latter’s destructive consequences through the window of his taxi. He drives the old man around in the hope that he will remember where he is actually going. He is definitely not on his way to see his son Borut, as he severed all ties with his father years ago.

 

cast & crew
old man DARE VALIČ
Roman UROŠ FURST
japi BRANKO JORDAN

producers
VLADO BULAJIĆ & LIJA POGAČNIK

director of photography
MILOŠ SRDIĆ

production designer
MARCO JURATOVEC

costume designer
KATJA HROBAT

make-up artist
MOJCA GOROGRANC PETRUŠEVSKA

editor
IVANA FUMIĆ

sound mixer and designer
JULIJ ZORNIK

composer
DAVOR HERCEG

 

technical details
DCP, colour, 15 min, format: 1 :2.35, sound: 5.1

 

festivals
Festival of Slovenian Film, competition programme, Portorož, Slovenia, 2015
Motovun Film Festival, competition programme, Motovun, Croatia, 2015
Kinodvorišče, Kinodvor, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2015