Ida Weiss

The jury was impressed by the project's high level of preparation and the coherence of its artistic vision. Through strong symbolism and a grounded narrative, the film explores how cycles of violence are inherited-and how they might be broken. With a sense of a strong human production value, the project demonstrates both artistic ambition and tangible potential for delivery.

The EKKOMED award goes to Horses to be directed by Jernej Kastelec and produced by Ida Weiss, from Slovenia.

Don’t Forget to Breathe pulls us into a story of two young brothers that find themselves at a turning point. The reason why the director Martin Turk ventured into the youth film genre was to take a story for youngsters to a higher level and make it an auteur film. This was a successful attempt. In many aspects of filmmaking, Don’t Forget to Breathe is a perfectly complete film which the jury had no trouble recognising as the best film in this year’s selection of feature-length fiction films.

Dokumentarni film prikazuje sožitje med dvema karakterjema v eni osebi in njune zaplete ter kljub intimnim problemom doseže ravnotežje in rešitev. Režija odraža profesionalnost, dobro dramaturgijo in ritem filma.

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