A lonely kid, a mysterious neighbor, and a friendship that'll wreck you in 98 minutes.
A lonely teenage boy of divorced parents and an alcoholic mother makes friends with a mysterious man who moves into the flat opposite his.
Acting
Henigman's unsettling warmth, Mandić's heartbreaking stillness.
Direction
Gazvoda's quiet observation, letting silence devastate.
Cinematography
Cramped apartments and empty streets as emotional prison.
Director
Nejc Gazvoda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Slovenia's post-Yugoslav masculinity crisis haunts the film—Jure represents a nostalgic, toxic ideal of male authority that Gregor's actual father abandoned.
The flat's geography becomes a character itself: Gregor's window vantage point frames his entire world as observation without participation, until Jure finally invites him inside.
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