The Lost Son

by Darko Štante

Izgubljeni sin, fiction
In production

SI, HR, IT

A detective runs into his violent brother, whom he hasn’t seen in twelve years. While trying to help him, his actions trigger repercussions that will shake their lives to the core.

screenwriter
Darko Štante
director
Darko Štante
producers
Nina Robnik, Miha Černec

production
Staragara
co-production
Propeler film, SilkFilms, Transmedia
co-funding
Slovenian Film Centre

Staragara
Nina Robnik
nina@staragara.com

The award-winning director and scriptwriter Darko Štante (1995) lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His debut feature film Consequences (2018) was premiered at Toronto IFF. It has been selected for many film festivals and has received many awards. It has also been sold and distributed in the USA, France, Germany, Taiwan, the UK and Canada, and has been sold to HBO, Amazon Prime and other VODs. Štante was a participant in the ScriptEast Workshop and is a 2021 Berlinale Talents alumnus.

Staragara mainly co-produces in the region of the former Yugoslavia, and it has established a superb artistic and scouting collaboration with Italy and certain other countries, for example Czechia, Hungary, Netherlands. Norway and Finland.