- Student project
Gmajna
- Documentary Film
- 95' 11''
- 2020
- Slovenia
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Synopsis
Gmajna is a Slovenian word denoting mark, i.e. land held in common by a community, or such a community. Gmajna is also the name of a Slovenian village with an aging population struggling to cope with the radically changing post-socialist world, one dramatically different from the world of their Yugoslav youth. The poetic work of cinematic historiography features intimate accounts by seniors who use the basic metaphors of Slovenian history to ruminate not only on Slovenian land or state but above all on the personal stories they have lived out on the common land of their own histories.
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Student film
Idyllic images of landscape are disturbed by a persistent, irritating sound of the motorway that divides the old community of Gmajna. With a special sensitivity to the village population, the film is a subjective account of the history of a place that seems to be disappearing.
Making a feature-length student film is hard, and making a good feature-length student film is even harder. Sebastian Korenič Tratnik achieves nothing less than that. Gmajna provides a heart-breaking insight into life in Slovenian countryside, a life that modernity has literally cut in half, dehumanising and alienating it, reducing it to memories and anecdotes. The extraordinary sensibility of the director in giving the voice to people who have been unfairly pushed to the brink and relegated to the past, is more than enough reason to present the young filmmaker with a Vesna Award for Special Achievement.
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