Film Theatre 2023/24

Disappearing (Verschwinden/Izginjanje, Austria, Slovenia, 2022, 99 min.)

 
Roughly ninety percent of the inhabitants in southern Carinthia spoke Slovenian prior to 1910. The average percentage today is in the single digits. In her essayistic documentary, Andrina Mracnikar gives a personal shape to a highly political urgency. What happens when a first language is taken from daily life? What must politics do to counter the disappearance of a language whose protection is established in the constitution?
 

Director: Andrina Mračnikar
Scenarij: Andrina Mračnikar, Jürgen Karasek
Screenplay: Judith Benedikt
Edited by: Gerhard Daurer
Music by: Peter Kutin
Cast: Eugen Sitter, Robi Sitter, Christian Tusch, Alexander Koban, Annemarie Grilc, Rudi Vouk, Lena Kolter, Georg Hansche st., Thomas Schuschu, Valentina Vouk, Sophie Hochkofler, Sweva Wastl, Pamina Schmiedler, Judita Babnik, Mirko Wakounig, Antonia Sabotnik, Tomi Sabotnik, Mirjam Sitter-Unger, Lizi Sitter, Arno Kampl, Massimiliano Lacota, Helga Mračnikar, Milo Mračnikar, Simon Pasterk in številni drugi
Production company: Soleil Film, Vertigo
Festivals and Awards: Diagonale 2022: Audience Award for Best Film; Kino Otok 2022: opening film of the festival; Dokudoc Maribor 2022; Slovenian Film Festival Portorož 2022: Vesna Award for Special Achievements; Cottbus 2022: international premiere; Štigličev pogled 2022 award (Society of Slovenian Directors): award for outstanding direction
Distributed by: Vertigo