The minimalistic tragedy dealing with entrapment and the expecting of the unavoidable has been successfully represented at domestic cinemas. It has also taken part in more than twenty international festivals and won numerous awards. Among the awards are four from last year’s Festival of Slovenian Film.

“The Tree” requires a patient audience, as this aesthetically filmed story of a well-thought-out colorful whole unwraps gradually. It tells the story of a mother of two children, Alek and Velija, who hide behind the walls of their house and yard due to the fear of a vendetta. But even such a threat fails to suppress a child’s longing for freedom. Their physical entrapment partly makes up for their closed nature. "In the second chapter it’s also a story about being entrapped in a certain system, in which a person perhaps doesn’t even want to be in. We deal with that through the eyes of the mother of the two children. The third part is about being entrapped in our own feelings of guilt and responsibility, which is experienced by the older brother,” is what the director, Prosenc, had to say about her film. "The Tree speaks about something universal. It doesn’t illustrate a story conditioned by ethnicity. I myself have tried to distance myself from that feeling."

Acting in this minimalistic film are Jernej Kogovšek, Lukas Matija Rosas Uršič and Katarina Stegnar.

M. K., MMC;
translated by K. J.