Slovenian director Dominik Mencej will put the motorbikes aside after his 90s-set road movie “Riders,” focusing on a female protagonist next. Once again set in the past, his new project “Aberrant Bride” will revolve around an “imported” young wife from Croatia, coming into a new environment and a new family, led by her husband’s domineering mother.
“It’s similar but different,” says Mencej.
“There is no open road, just a forest next to the house, but it’s also about this sense of belonging. I guess I can’t figure out how to tell a story with cellphones and social media. I don’t know how to make a perfect film for this era. At least not yet.”
But the present still can be felt in his Sarajevo title “Riders,” produced by Staragara, Antitalent, Novi Film, Transmedia Production, Sense Production and Nu Frame.
“A comment about the past can...
“It’s similar but different,” says Mencej.
“There is no open road, just a forest next to the house, but it’s also about this sense of belonging. I guess I can’t figure out how to tell a story with cellphones and social media. I don’t know how to make a perfect film for this era. At least not yet.”
But the present still can be felt in his Sarajevo title “Riders,” produced by Staragara, Antitalent, Novi Film, Transmedia Production, Sense Production and Nu Frame.
“A comment about the past can...
- 8/20/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
1999-set drama follows two young friends on the trip of a lifetime.
Slovenian writer and director Dominik Mencej premiered Riders, his feature debut, in the feature competition of this month’s Sarajevo Film Festival.
The young director, who graduated in Film and Television Directing at the University of Ljubljana, won the awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 2014 Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož with his short film The Springtime Sleep.
Riders follows two young friends from a small Slovenian village who, with the year 2000 rearing into view, decide to get on the road and ride their mopeds through Croatia and Slovenia.
Slovenian writer and director Dominik Mencej premiered Riders, his feature debut, in the feature competition of this month’s Sarajevo Film Festival.
The young director, who graduated in Film and Television Directing at the University of Ljubljana, won the awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the 2014 Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož with his short film The Springtime Sleep.
Riders follows two young friends from a small Slovenian village who, with the year 2000 rearing into view, decide to get on the road and ride their mopeds through Croatia and Slovenia.
- 8/19/2022
- by Elena Lazic
- ScreenDaily
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