Disappearing

AT / SI 2022, 99 min, Andrina Mracnikar

Roughly ninety percent of the inhabitants in southern Carinthia spoke Slovenian prior to 1910. The average percentage today is in the single digits. In her essayistic documentary, Andrina Mracnikar gives a personal shape to a highly political urgency. What happens when a first language is taken from daily life? What must politics do to counter the disappearance of a language whose protection is established in the constitution? 

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festivals

Diagonale 2022, AT | Kino Otok – Isola Cinema International Film Festival 2022, SI | Festival des Neuen Heimatfilms 2022, AT | Festival of Slovenian Film 2022, SI | Filmfestival Radstadt 2022, AT | DokuDoc Maribor 2022, SI | FilmFestival Cottbus 2022, DE | K3 Film Festival 2022, AT | Biennale Bavaria International 2023, DE | Balkan Film Week 2023, DE

awards

Publikumspreis (Diagonale 2022) | Vesna award for special achievement (Festival of Slovenian Film 2022)

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