Nejc Gazvoda Starts Shooting Absurdist Tale ‘Father Figure’ in Slovenia – Central & Eastern European News in Brief

Nejc Gazvoda, whose previous films include “A Trip” and “Dual,” has started shooting “Father Figure” in his home town, Novo Mesto, Slovenia.

The film will be shot in 25 days and is expected to be completed in the spring of 2023, online news service Film New Europe reports.“Father Figure” is an absurdist tale, written by Gazvoda, which follows a mother and her son who move from Ljubljana to a small town after the mother’s divorce.

Jan is in his final year of elementary school, and Maja is a psychologist at the same school.

The film begins with the reopening of schools after the end of the pandemic, but things do not seem to be the way they were before.“ ‘Father Figure’ is a film about a particular period (the middle of 2021), set in an elementary school, and all the issues it deals with are concrete: peer violence, loneliness, dignity.

At the same time,

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