Daily programme

Event 

Title:
Identity Smugglers – discussion and prepremiere of the documentary
When:
25.02.2016 20.00
Where:
Slovene Theatre in Trieste (Little Hall) - Trieste
Category:
Fabula before Fabula 2016

Description

19:00, Thursday, February 25, 2016

Slovene Theatre in Trieste, Little Hall

Petrionio 4, Trieste

Identity Smugglers – discussion and prepremiere of the documentary

Ervin Hladnik Milharčič and Irena Urbič will discuss life on the border, cultural differences and the question of how to deal with them.

At 20:00, the discussion will be followed by a prepremiere of the eponymous documentary – the screening will be introduced by director Marija Zidar.

ABOUT THE FILM

Identity Smugglers

52 min, documentary
Director: Marija Zidar
Screenwriters: Ervin Hladnik Milharčič, Marija Zidar
Produced by: Društvo ŠKUC, for TV Slovenija, 2015

SUMMARY

Documentary Identity Smugglers has the structure of a road movie. The film follows Ervin Hladnik Milharčič, a native of Nova Gorica and Slovenia’s finest journalist, travelling both sides of today’s Slovenian-Italian border, the former “transit pass area”, in his Defender. The area is the meeting point of the Latin and Slavic worlds, of Central Europe and the Mediterranean, and Milharčič tries to show us what used to be mixed, exchanged and smuggled, how the situation has changed and what positive impact this has had for the people who live there.

Milharčič drives through some towns and makes stops in others, his winding journey taking him from Predel to Sečovlje – across Sinji vrh and through Tolmin, Kambreško, Špeter Slovenov, Topolovo, Nova Gorica and Gorizia, Trieste and Izola. On the way there, we meet madrigal singers Tminski madrigalisti, Drago Mislej - Mef and Iztok Mlakar. Milharčič also visits the Assumption mass in Gorizia and attends the May Day celebration on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Trieste with the Trieste-based Pinko Tomažič partisan choir. Moving on, we get to see Slovene women who worked as nannies in Alexandria, a monument to an Azerbaijani partisan, the Lukčeva House, the Slovene Multimedia Window Museum (SMO), a metal music festival in the centre of Tolmin and other wonders born out of the mixing of the two cultures. The world on the border is like an endless landscape under an open sky and with an open mind. The documentary pieces together a mosaic of one of the central themes of our time: life on the border, cultural differences and the question of how to deal with them.

The film is distinguished by wonderful cinematography, which is the work of Latif Hasolli, a young photography director from Kosovo. The soundtrack was created by singer-songwriter Drago Mislej - Mef and Elvis Šahbaz, and the film’s sound was edited by Darko Spasovski from Macedonia.

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Venue

Venue:
Slovene Theatre in Trieste (Little Hall)