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While slowly unfolding disappearing tradition in today’s society, Seliškar atmospherically captures both the rugged mountain landscape and the tender bonds between the main characters, brothers who refer to one another as director, hero, cowboy, and their apprentices. In humorous, overly mature, and sometimes angry interactions, their intimacy becomes palpable. They had to grow up far too quickly, spending months up there, learning to swear, smoke, and be cowboys. With no reception, no roads, no school, and minimal human connections, they seem to be the last ones standing and are forced to navigate their place in the world. The film's mesmerizing visual language and soundscape transported us into a meditative state, while profoundly questioning ways of life caught between the tension of freedom and purpose.

Croatian: Intimnim pogledom na ljudske živote uz prelijepu, no kontroverznu granicu ovaj film bavi se složenim i izazovnim pitanjima o globalnoj izbjegličkoj krizi kroz lokalnu perspektivu.

For an exceptional and dramatic personal approach to saying goodbye, collective revenge and systematic punishment turning a real life story into cinematic meditation. This film helps us understand the logic of the prison system, as well as people going through it, their lives, families and stories. The director himself faces issues with the system and has to find a way to come to terms with it.

Jury statement: An exciting and distinct cinematic exploration of manhood, competitiveness and the progression from innocence to toxicity, of the games we play.

Croatian: Na samom početku vijećanja dogovorili smo se da ćemo jedno posebno priznanje dodijeliti filmu koji dotiče regionalnu problematiku. Dom otvara probleme posttranzicijskih društava bivše Jugoslavije: Bosanaca i Slovenaca. Film prikazuje ljude koji su izvedeni iz ljudskosti, koji su svedeni u položaj ropstva i potpuno poniženi. Oni ne reagiraju na svakodnevne situacije koje bi trebale pružiti užitak. Orvelovska dimenzija filma ističe automatizam zbroja pojedinaca kroz izoliranu stvarnost koju kreira sustav. Taj je sustav zanijekao radnike kao ljude, a oni su, unatoč tolikom poniženju, i dalje blisko vezani uz tvornice u kojima su radili.