A debut with a very long title wins best film at the Festival of Slovenian Film
Ester Ivakič's Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song took four Vesna awards in Portorož.
Nina Zupan · Culture writer · · · Portorož
- Best film
- Ida Who Sang So Badly… (Ester Ivakič)
- Best director
- Darko Štante, The Lost Son
- Audience award
- The Way to Kauniaro
The 29th Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož, held from 13 to 18 October, ended with the Vesna awards. Best feature film went to Ester Ivakič's debut, Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song, a coming-of-age drama based on a book by Suzana Tratnik. It won four Vesnas in all.12
The other winners
Darko Štante was named best director for The Lost Son. Luka Marčetić won best screenplay for Girl in the Night, which also took the awards for cinematography and editing. The acting awards went to Anuša Kodelja for Urša Menart's Everything That's Wrong With You and to Gregor Baković for Jan Cvitkovič's Hotel Alcohol.2
Siniša Gačić's Dance of Life was the best documentary, and the audience award went to the documentary The Way to Kauniaro, directed by Maja Weiss, Tomo Križnar and Bojana Pivk.2
Glass from Rogaška
Every Vesna statuette is hand-made at the Rogaška glassworks, so no two are exactly alike.3
Hung on these sources
Nina Zupan checked each fact against the sources below. Numbers in the text lead to them.
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