Consequences

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Movie
German title Consequences
Original title Posledice
Country of production Slovenia , Austria
original language Slovenian
Publishing year 2018
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Darko Štante
script Darko Štante
production Andraž Jerič
camera Rok Nagode
cut Sara Gjergek
occupation

Konsequenzen (original title Posledice ) is a film drama by Darko Štante , which celebrated its world premiere on September 7, 2018 at the Toronto International Film Festival .

action

18-year-old Andrej Podobnik refuses to go to school, does not try to get a job, often stays away from home for nights, lies, steals and has constant problems with the police. His mother doesn't know what to do next. After allegedly raping a girl at a party, he is sentenced to a stay in a juvenile prison. There are actually strict rules in the home for young people who have committed criminal offenses, and Andrej cannot easily withdraw from school here either, but the overburdened and poorly motivated staff can hardly assert themselves.

Andrej quickly recognized the hierarchy in the social structure and was accepted into a group of violent youngsters around their charismatic leader Željko. Niko also belongs to the group. At the weekend the youngsters are allowed to go home, and from then on Andrej spends this time with parties, sex, drugs and one or the other car theft. But Andrej has a secret. At first, he tries to hide his feelings and pretends to be straight. However, he fell in love with Željko. After the two had a romantic encounter, he was blackmailed by him from then on.

production

Darko Štante (second from left) at the presentation of the Štigličeve nagrade 2019 film award

The director was Darko Štante , who also wrote the script. The Slovenian-Austrian production is his debut film. At the time the film was made, Štante was in his master's degree in film directing at the Academy for Theater, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana . He had previously worked as an assistant director on various productions. The story of his film was inspired by his work in a youth detention center in Slovenia, where he experienced the daily routines, the endless conversations with the children and the many apathetic staff. Štante said that most of the international initiatives related to human rights, LGBTQ rights and gender quality are being pursued in Slovenia, but that the country is divided on these issues. While liberal views prevailed in the capital Ljubljana and other urban areas, conservative values ​​dominated outside the larger cities. The Slovenian youth is currently in an extremely tense situation when it comes to issues such as tolerance and acceptance of sexuality and other human rights. The youth are divided by the respect for human rights on the one hand, as conveyed by state institutions, but also extreme populist ideas on the other hand, which are disseminated through some media. Štante's greatest hope was that the film would reveal the reasons for intolerance, hatred and violent behavior towards those who think differently. In his film, he asks the question: "How do you survive in a dangerous world in which you cannot trust anyone, not society, not friends and not even parents?"

After Štante first looked for amateur actors, he decided to focus on trained theater actors from the Slovenian Academy for Theater, Radio, Film and Television. The director already knew Matej Zemljičs , the main actor with whom he cast Andrej Podobnik, through an earlier collaboration on another project. Rosana Hribar and Dejan Spasic took on the roles of his parents. Timon Sturbej plays Željko Zele for short, Gasper Markun plays Niko, Lovro Zafred can be seen in the role of Luka and Lea Cok plays Svetlana.

The soundtrack consists of Slovenian and Serbian hip-hop and dance tracks.

The film was shown for the first time on September 7, 2018 at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Discovery section. From September 13, 2018, it was presented at the slovenskega filma festival in Portorož. At the end of April 2019 it was shown at the Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz.

reception

Age rating and film genre

In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK from the age of 16. Yeison Urda Ruiz and Jana Schmeckenbecher from the online cinema magazine queergestierter.com explain that Štante shows in the film how hard it can be for a young person who is “different” to assert himself among his peers and not to deny himself. Accompanied by Slovenian and Serbian trap and hip-hop sounds, the coming-of-age drama makes homophobia and social pressure visible, embedded in fundamental problems of the legal and social system of Slovenian society.

Reviews

Indie Wire counted consequences to the best LGBT Q-movies of the year of 2019.

Variety's Dennis Harvey writes that the film is a bit daring for Slovenia because it doesn't judge its characters for their sexual preferences or their homosexuality . However, Darko Štante's debut film reminds him a lot of a bad boy beefcake version, as the body-beautiful protagonists have a certain animal charisma.

Vladan Petkovic of the European film portal Cineuropa explains that the film examines the fundamental problems of Slovenian society, for example a mentality that is characterized by a backwardness that is often associated with inadequate communication and a low level of mutual understanding within a family, which is not limited to the relationship in families, but affect the whole community.

Awards (selection)

Crossing Europe Film Festival 2019

  • Award in YAAAS! Competition

Festival slovenskega filma 2018

  • Award for best film with the audience award ( Darko Štante )
  • Received the Slovene Film Critics Association Award - Feature Film
  • Award for the best director (Darko Štante)
  • Award as Best Actor ( Matej Zemljičs )
  • Award for Best Supporting Actor (Timon Sturbej)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for consequences . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 186198 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Posledice. In: kinodvor.org. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ https://www.crossingeurope.at/film/posledice-consequences.html
  4. ↑ a b c d e Erik Anderson: Interview: Darko Štante, director of TIFF world premiere 'Consequences'. In: awardswatch.com, September 3, 2018.
  5. ^ A b c Dennis Harvey: Film Review: 'Consequences'. In: Variety, September 27, 2018.
  6. ^ Consequences. In: cineuropa.org. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  7. ↑ https://queergestleicht.com/2019/konsequenzen/
  8. ↑ Jude Dry: The Best Queer Films of 2019, From 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' to 'Booksmart'. In: indiewire.com, December 20, 2019.
  9. ↑ https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/360087/
  10. ↑ https://www.subtext.at/2019/05/das-crossing-europe-2019/