- Debut film
Fantasy
- Fiction Feature Film
- 98'
- 2025
- Slovenia, North Macedonia
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Synopsis
Sina, Mihrije and Jasna are best friends in their early twenties. Their boyish lifestyles often lead them into conflicts with neighbourhood boys who perceive them as a threat. A young transgender woman called Fantasy catches their attention. Fantasy slowly mesmerises the girls and their paths take different directions. Despite her strong opinions against romantic relationships, Sina becomes romant
Sina, Mihrije and Jasna are best friends in their early twenties. Their boyish lifestyles often lead them into conflicts with neighbourhood boys who perceive them as a threat. A young transgender woman called Fantasy catches their attention. Fantasy slowly mesmerises the girls and their paths take different directions. Despite her strong opinions against romantic relationships, Sina becomes romantically entangled. Jasna, who lives with her frustrated mother, decides to take a job on a cruise ship in France. Mihrije runs away with Fantasy to Macedonia to avoid an arranged marriage. Her feelings for Fantasy become more and more intense. After their return to Slovenia, all girls realise they’ve grown apart and feel estranged from each other. On her way home, Mihrije stops at Fantasy’s apartment and discovers she has disappeared. Each in her own way, Sina, Mihrije and Jasna build the first steps of their adult lives, far from the destiny they were supposed to have.
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Director's statement
The film explores the reawakening of the long silenced female gaze, inviting women to see themselves through their own lens rather than through external expectations.
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Awards
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The award for Best Production Design goes to Maja Šavc for her outstanding work in Fantasy. Carefully designed scenes draw on the region’s multifaceted collective memory, creating a varied, dreamlike world tightly intertwined with the characters’ changing identities, relationships, and interactions.
The award for Best Make-up goes to Tinka Prpar for her work in Fantasy. Her playful yet confident approach effectively underpins the central topics the film explores: the vulnerability and resilience of the protagonists, who tellingly resist social and cultural norms and undergo inner transformations in the process.
The award for Best Original Music goes to Relja Ćupić for his music in Fantasy. Ćupić’s compositions are an indispensable element of the film’s world, which is both magical and largely familiar. Ćupić’s music enhances the complexity of the protagonists’ journeys, creating a profoundly memorable viewing experience of being fully immersed in the film.
In a film exploring the distances between how we understand ourselves and how others perceive us, our ensemble of talented actresses brought great charisma and authenticity to their roles. We proudly present the Best Actress Award to the ensemble quartet at the heart of FANTASY.
Award in the amount of €2,500.
The award for Best Costume Design goes to Damir Raković for his excellent work in Fantasy. With courageous combinations of colours, textures, and traditions, Raković enhances the film’s dreamlike world, fully embracing the liberating eclecticism of contemporary popular culture.
The award for Special Achievement goes to Fantasy for the originality, ambition, and courage distinguishing its fictional world. Its director, Kukla, and director of photography, Lazar Bogdanović, create a hypnotic vision of a world in the making, where élan vital not only questions tradition but transforms the material, auditory, and visual traces of the past that haunt the present into a force of renewal that manifests itself through the protagonists’ everyday actions.
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All financial information is obtained from official sources. I.e. producers or organizations which provided the financial support.
SL: Znesek se deli med več odobrenih projektov prijavitelja.
EN: Amount distributed among miltiple projects by the applicant.
Comitee: Vilma Štritof Čretnik, Bojan Labović, Čedomir Kolar Explication
Celovečerni igrani film izhaja iz nagrajenega kratkega, tematsko in po konstelaciji likov enakega. V njem avtorica relevantno tematizira različne spolne identitete, na katere se običajno patriarhalno okolje odziva z odporom, kar nemalokrat vzpostavi konflikt tudi v družinskem okolju. Celovečerna forma omogoča več emotivnosti in subtilnih tonov, saj kot protagonistke nastopajo dekleta, ki šele začenjajo spolno živeti.
Struktura filma je dokaj preprosta, teče skoraj linearno, diskurz je vzpostavljen že na začetku, kar ni najboljša rešitev. Razvije pa se zgodba z v nacionalni kinematografiji povsem novim likom Fantasy. Do nje/ga vsaka mlada ženska iz skupine razvije drugačen odnos, ena izmed njih celo zelo intimen in čustven, saj gre s Fantasy v patriarhalno zaznamovan kraj njenega otroštva, kar pomeni veliko dejanje poguma. Nenadna smrt Fantasy je dramaturško vprašljiva, sicer pa vsaki od mladih žensk izkušnja z njim pomeni posebno izkušnjo, s katero drugačne vstopajo v odraslo življenje.
Film je lahko privlačen za precejšen del slovenskega in še bolj mednarodnega kulturnega prostora.
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