Observing

by Janez Burger

Opazovanje, fiction
In preproduction
SI

The harder a young paramedic tries to find out why she is receiving mysterious videos of a brutal crime streamed on Facebook, the clearer it becomes to her that she was also involved. Lara (27), an empathic paramedic intern, helps bring Kristjan to the hospital. Although he is in a coma, Lara starts getting video clips from his FB profile of unknown people watching the beating. She reports it to a detective, who finds out that the observers were not present at the scene but watched the streaming. When Lara’s sister dies after admitting to Lara that she also watched the beating, Lara realizes that the observers are dying one by one. She wants to kill Kristjan, blaming him for the deaths. She cannot do it, but Kristjan dies anyway. When Lara receives a video of her watching the live streaming, she realizes that she, too, is an accomplice in Kristjan’s murder.

screenwriters
Janez Burger, Srdjan Koljević
director
Janez Burger
producers
Miha Černec, Jožko Rutar
executive producer
Nina Robnik
director of photography
Marko Brdar
film editor
Miloš Kalusek
production designers
Vasja Kokelj, Špela Jelovčan
costume designer
Ana Savić Gecan
key make-up artist
Ana Bulajić Črček
hair designer
Ana Bulajić Črček
cast
Diana Kolenc, Vladimir Vlaškalić, Benjamin Krnetić, Jure Henigman, Nataša Keser, Blaž Setnikar, Pavle Ravnohrib
production
Staragara
co-funding
Slovenian Film Centre
Janez Burger

Janez Burger (1965), director and screenwriter, graduated in film and TV directing from the FAMU (CZE). His films are always welcome at prominent film festivals all over the world, where they often receive awards. He lives and works in Ljubljana.