Hotel Alkohol
- Fiction Feature Film
- 105'
- 2026
- Slovenia, Germany, Croatia
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Bako decides to seek treatment for alcoholism in a psychiatric hospital. There, he meets Medea, a drug addict, and Drago, a naive and good-natured chess-loving psychiatric patient. The domineering head physician at the hospital organises a bizarre “Olympics”. Our protagonists form a team called Hotel Alcohol, and after their defeat, they leave the hospital and set off on a journey towards the sea. This journey ends in an unexpected place, in an unexpected way.
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Since childhood, my life has somehow intertwined with people with special needs, alcoholics, psychiatric patients, addicts. I want to demystify their world, break taboos and bring it closer to the vie
Since childhood, my life has somehow intertwined with people with special needs, alcoholics, psychiatric patients, addicts. I want to demystify their world, break taboos and bring it closer to the viewer—also through the prism of humour. I feel that condemning “marginalized people” is a barren distancing from oneself, while moving closer to them can be an act of moving closer to the essence.
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hrvaško: Scenarij "Hotel Alkohol" Jana Cvitkoviča donosi duboko emotivnu i slojevitu priču o životnim izazovima. Cvitkovič, poznati slovenski redatelj i scenarist, vješto razvija likove Bake, Medeje i Draga, čineći ih punokrvnim i životnim, s kojima se lako identificirati. Dramaturška dosljednost i uvjerljivi dijalozi dodatno naglašavaju emocionalni dojam priče. Tema alkoholizma, narkomanije i psihičkih bolesti je suvremena i relevantna, a scenarij suptilno integrira ove elemente, donoseći inovativnost i autentičnost. Redateljska vizija Jana Cvitkoviča jasno vodi likove kroz emotivna iskustva i izazove, stvarajući uvjerljivu i autentičnu atmosferu. Njegov inovativni pristup istražuje kompleksnost ljudskog iskustva, duboko involvirajući gledatelja kroz pažljivo postavljene scene. Plan promocije i distribucije je vrlo kvalitetan. Novi Cvitkovičev film ima izuzetan festivalski potencijal.
Comitee: Janez Lapajne, Aleš Pavlin, Miran Zupanič, Katja Colja (alternate) Explication
Največja odlika scenarija je prežetost s človečnostjo. Občutljivi odnosi, upi in sanje na rob odrinjenih posebnežev so podani z občutkom za (so)človeka. Hotenja in hrepenenja osrednjih treh filmskih oseb so univerzalna. Relevantni problematiki duševnih stisk in odvisnosti sta predstavljeni z izvirno in blagodejno duhovitostjo. Spretno nizanje prizorov, z njihovimi notranjimi dramaturgijami vred, priča o tem, da je scenarist prekaljen opazovalec življenja, ki zna pisati za film. Scenarij ne zdrsne v sentimentalnost, na koncu pa ničesar ne zapira; junake pusti v trenutku, ko jim je še naprej dovoljeno sanjati, kar lahko gledalcu po ogledu filma pomembno »podaljša« njegovo sobivanje s filmskimi junaki. Lucidna celota predstavlja obet za zelo privlačen film, tako za slovenske obiskovalce kinematografov kot za pomembnejše mednarodne festivale. Ob ustrezni realizaciji bi film lahko bil deležen tudi mednarodne distribucije.
Comitee: Klemen Dvornik, Vilma Štritof, Nejc Gazvoda, Žanina Mirčevska (alternate) Explication
Scenarij za Hotel Alkohol je od zadnjega branja komisije naredil velik korak naprej - iz včasih brezsmiselne in privatizmov polne komedije je postal trpka, a še vedno humorna drama, ki je umeščena v realen prostor, se ukvarja z realnimi problemi, projekt je dobil potreben fokus. Zdaj so dogodivščine treh (anti)junakov, ki se borijo vsak s svojimi demoni, hkrati socialna drama in komedija zmešnjav, a scenarist in režiser Jan Cvitkovič je pri vseh elementih ujel pravo mero. Liki nosijo vsak svoje križe in težave, so zelo dobro zamišljeni in vsak od njih ne trpi le od odvisnosti od substanc, ampak se bori z osamljenostjo, z željo biti ljubljen, opažen, pomemben, srečen. Glede na avtorjev renome in izrazito jasno žanrsko pozicioniran film (institucija proti posamezniku) komisija ne dvomi v mednarodno prepoznavnost filma, ravno tako so notranji konflikti likov tako arhetipski, da je univerzalna privlačnost zgodbe skoraj zagotovljena. Komisija želi, da projekt vztraja na tej poti, ki si jo je zastavil in da ne zaide v pretirano situacijsko komiko, s katero seveda ni nič narobe, a bi v tem primeru film zelo hitro pretirano zbanalizirala.
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