Slovenian Film Retrospective: The Old Bridge; Dad
The Old Bridge (Stari most)
Vlado Å kafar, Slovenia, 1998, 35mm, 1.66, colour, 12', no dialogue
A postcard from Mostar.
Dad (OÄa)
Vlado Å kafar, Slovenia, 2010, DCP, colour, 71', English subtitles
āMiki, a local co-producer, takes us across the border to Hungary for a meeting. He tells us that the Slovenians living there donāt have a word for love. I watch his eyes in the rear-view mirror. When he gets out, I say to Frenk: Okay, he can be Dad. Miki brings Sandi. He's too old. But he has the face and hair and eyes and mouth of an angel, and angels are ageless. We get to know each other at a football stadium. When I show this to my girlfriend, she shudders and cries. It's gonna be a beautiful film. Then the three of us play. We throw little stones in our wells (our souls) and listen to the echoes. That's the game of our cinema. (Let film be poetry. Let it be driven by the silent engines of the story.)ā - Vlado Å kafar
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