Family Therapy Wins 2024 Festival of Slovenian Film Portorož

Sonja Prosenc’s Family Therapy won the Vesna Award for best film at the 27th Festival of Slovenian Film Portoroz, which ran 22 - 27 October 2024 in Portorož. Slovenia’s candidate for the 97th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the Best International Feature Film category won seven Vesna Awards altogether. Family Therapy also won awards for screenplay (Sonja Prosenc), best actress (Katarina Stegnar), best actor (Marko Mandić), best supporting actress (Mila Bezjak), music (Boris Benko, Primož Hladnik) and production design (Tajana Čanić Stanković).

Hanna Slak won the Vesna Award for best direction for Not a Word. The film was also awarded for make-up and it received the prize for best minority Slovenian coproduction.

Maja Doroteja Perlog’s long documentary Cent’anni was awarded for editing and special achievements, and it also received the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Slovenia Award.

Vid Hanjšek’s mid-length documentary A Tree Grows in My Dreams Every Night won the Vesna Award for best documentary, while Slobodan Maksimović’s Praslovan received the Audience Award.

The awards for Best Short Film and Best Student Film were not given this year.

The whole article with all the winners is available here. 

Source: Slovenian Film Centre