Deklica in Drevo (Work in Progress)
A GIRL AND A TREE tells the story of an immortal love between two girls,
Vera and Marusha, separated by destiny when they were schoolgirls in a little village and brought together unexpectedly at
old age. It discovers the immenseness of child’s life, the energy and purity of early sentiments, the strength and depth of
human bonds and also the bond between human beings and nature. It tells about women's life, about the essence that remains
in human beings facing the end of life, about passing away and returning, about a last walk, with death. A GIRL AND A TREE
is a view on human life from the hills of old age, still full of life and heart. “I thought we were making a film about passing.
Now I see we are making a film about what does not pass away.” (Vlado Škafar)
Director's Biography
VLADO ŠKAFAR, born 1969 in Slovenia, is a filmmaker and writer
and also engaged in the promotion of cinematic culture. Škafar is co-founder of the Slovenian Cinematheque and of Kino Otok
– Isola Cinema International Film Festival. His first feature DAD was the first Slovenian film ever selected for the International
Critics’ Week at the Venice Film Festival 2010. // Films (selected): PETERKA - LETO ODLOČITVE (Peterka: Year of Decision,
2003, doc; CE '04), POD NIJHOVO KOŽO (Under their S.K.I.N., 2006, doc; CE '06), OČA (Dad, 2010; CE '11), DEKLICA IN DREVO
(A Girl and A Tree, 2013)
European
Panorama Fiction 2013
Vlado
Škafar
Slovenia 2013
color
83
minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay
Vlado Škafar
Cinematography
Marko Brdar, Jure Černec
Editing
Vlado Škafar
Sound/Sounddesign Julij Zornik
With Joni Zakonjšek, Štefka Drolc, Ivanka Mežan, Helena Koder
Production
Gustav Film Stegne 7 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia T +386 590 31
995 F +386 590 31 996 info@gustavfilm.si www.gustavfilm.si