Penalty Shot

by Rok Biček

Kazenski strel, orig. Kazneni udarac, 2021, coproduction, fiction, 2,39:1/2,35:1, c, 15 min
Finished

HR, SI

Two best friends spend an afternoon on a football field, dreaming of making it onto the local team. However, dreams come with a price: when a group of older boys interrupt their game, one of them sees it as an opportunity to prove himself, while the other one senses something more sinister is at play.

screenwriters
Rok Biček, Kristian Novak
director
Rok Biček
producers
Danijel Pek, Katarina Prpić, Rok Biček
director of photography
Fabio Stoll
film editors
Rok Biček, Ana Štulina
production designer
Ivan Veljača
costume designer
Ana Savić Gecan
key make-up artist
Mojca Gorogranc Petrushevska
sound designer
Julij Zornik

cast
Gabrijel Dolenec, David Ivanović, Karlo Žganec, David Šafarić, Jakov Feher, Simon Herperger, Radovan Kočila

production
Antitalent
co-production
Cvinger film, Zwinger film
co-funding
Slovenian Film Centre, Croatian Audiovisual Centre

CVINGER FILM
www.cvinger-film.si

Rok Biček
rok.bicek@gmail.com

Rok Biček (1985). Class Enemy, his feature debut, won the Fedeora Award at the Venice Critics’ Week (2013), while the documentary The Family won the Grand Prix at the Locarno Critics’ Week (2017). Rok is now working on the film adaptation of the bestseller novel Dark Mother Earth.

WP:
Locarno Film Festival, Leopard of Tomorrow: Auteur's short competition, 2021

Awards:
Štigličev Pogled Award best directing (Directors Guild of Slovenia, 2022) , Vesna Award special achievement award (Festival of Slovenian Film, 2021)