Forever
Damjan Kozole

Synopsis

Tanya is 35, with a successful career. Her husband Mare is an architect. One Friday, Tanya comes home late at night. Mare confronts her and they exchange some edgy words; Mare is clearly jealous, he loses control of himself and slaps her in the face. Obviously, it is not the first such incident.
Tanya locks herself in the bathroom. They continue their conversation over the locked doors. Mare calms down, but when Tanya comes from the bathroom, he becomes abusive again. The noise wakes up a neighbour who reports them to the police. The police arrive and the couple calms down. When policemen leave the couple resorts to psychological abuse. What follows is the night of hateful and skilful twisting of words that unveils, step by step, all the dark secrets of their relationship. Behind a façade of a successful couple, there are suppressed feelings of inferiority, weaknesses, deceit, frustration and traumas from their youth.

director's statement

The original Slovenian title »Za vedno« is a pun, meaning either Forever or Aware. What goes on behind locked doors of people's apartments? How do seemingly perfectly normal couples, people like you and I and our friends really function? Film speaks about psychological violence, about mental abuse that we frequently tolerate in our relationships, failing to recognize it as real violence that undermines interpersonal relations. A film that will make the viewers aware of the subliminal components of their personalities.

Damjan Kozole

Crew

director and screenwriter
producer
director of photography
music by
 
Patetico
 
Laibach
editor
sound designer
sound recordist
Samo Kozlevčar
production designer
costume designer
make up artist
production manager

Actors

Tanja
Mare
Sosed
Sosedova žena
Taksist
policist
policist
Matija Kozamernik
Blaž Valič

Data

Year
2008
Genre
feature
produced by
Vertigo
Film format 
Cinealta HDcam 
Video format 
35mm 
Lenght 24fps 
82', 2250m 
Length 25fps 
79'06'' 
Sound 
Dolby Digital SR-D 
aspect ratio 
2,35:1 
color 
barvni 
language 
slovenščina 
translation 
english 
 
 

produced by

Vertigo

Kersnikova 4, SI - 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
Tel.: +386 1 439 7080
Fax: + 386 1 430 3530
E-mail: info@vertigo.si


with the participation of

E-Film

Zavod za kulturmo produkcijo
Kersnikova 4
SI - 1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija


financed by

Filmski sklad Republike Slovenije

Miklošičeva 38
SI - 1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija / Slovenia

Tel.: +386 1 234 3200, 234 3214
Fax: +386 1 234 3218
info@film-sklad.si


distributed by

MDC Int. GmbH

Wigbert Moschall
MDC INT. GmbH
Schillerstrasse 7a, D – 10625 Berlin, Nemčija
Tel.: +49 30 264 97900
Fax: +49 30 264 97910
E-mail: info@mdc-int.de


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