After being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Željko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.
Acting
Matej Zemljič's silent devastation—eyes that betray everything
Direction
Štante's unflinching static frames that refuse to look away
Writing
Dialogue so sparse the silences scream louder than words
Director
Darko Štante
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in an actual former youth detention center in Slovenia; several extras were former inmates who coached the actors on authentic behavior.
Štante deliberately contrasted Slovenian cinema's pastoral tradition with this urban, queer, working-class story—making it practically unprecedented in national film history.
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