Our graduate Ester Ivakič started filming her first feature film titled Ida, who sang so badly that even the dead rose from the dead and sang with her (temporama production). The first shot of the film, based on Suzana Tratnik’s literary proposal Noben glas (Beletrina, 2016), was shot on Wednesday, July 19, in the municipality of Moravske Toplice in Prekmurje, where most of the film’s story takes place.
The film’s story is about Ida (Lana Marić), a curious ten-year-old girl who lives in a village in the Prekmurje countryside in 70s Yugoslavia. Ida is very attached to her grandmother (Milena Stropnik). When her grandmother’s health deteriorates, Ida is convinced that she can ward off death by singing. However, since she is completely deaf, she joins the school choir with the help of her friend Terezka (Liza Marušič) in order to learn to sing and save her grandmother.
The film also stars: Judita Franković Brdar, Matej Puc, Miranda Trnjanin, Mila Peršin, Maruša Majer, Eva Stražar, Petja Labović and others. Director of photography Rok K. Nagode, composers Alenja Pivko Kneževič and Simon Penšek, set designer Eva Ferlan, costume designer Ina Ferlan, mask designer Lea Bratušek and editor Andrej Nagode are also participating in the film’s production.
Ester Ivakič is a film director and visual artist who graduated from our School (Visoka šola za umetnost Univerze v Novi Gorici – predecessor of the Academy), she continued her master’s degree in film direction at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana. She is the author of several short films and videos. In 2021, she received the award for the best Slovenian film at the Short Film Festival (FeKK) for the short film Magic Castle. In 2016, she received a special mention from the jury in the category of student films for her short study film Srdohrd at the Slovenian Film Festival in Portorož.
Source: Slovenian Film Centre
Photo – Asiana Jurca Avci
Last month, another one of our former students, our alumna Urška Djukić, started filming her first feature film titled Little Trouble Girls. Read more here.