Disappearing

by Andrina Mračnikar

Izginjanje, 2022, documentary, co-production, digital DCP, 1,85:1, c, 98 min
Finished

AT, SI

In her latest documentary Disappearing, the filmmaker Andrina Mračnikar sets out to her native southern Carinthia to explore why the Slovenian language and culture have been increasingly disappearing from everyday life. Her personal approach has a strong political dimension. Based on her family story, Mračnikar reveals a hundred years of Austrian history, which, in Carinthia, has been marked by the failure of politics and a wasted opportunity to appreciate Slovenian as an enrichment and an indispensible part of Austria.

screenwriter
Andrina Mračnikar
director
Andrina Mračnikar
producers
Jürgen Karasek, Danijel Hočevar
director of photography
Judith Benedikt
music composer
Peter Kutin
film editor
Gerhard Daurer
sound designers
Julij Zornik, Bertram Knappitsch, William E. Franck, Andreas Hamza

production
Soleil Film, Vertigo
co-production
RTV Slovenija, ORF Film – Fernsehabkommen
in collaboration with
Film Studio Viba Film
co-funding
Slovenian Film Centre, Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich, FISA Austria, Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, CarinthiJA2020
distribution
Vertigo

Vertigo
Danijel Hočevar
info@vertigo.si

Andrina Mračnikar (1981, at) studied directing at the AGRFT and directing & screenwriting at the Vienna Film Academy. She has won numerous prizes, primarily for her documentary films. Her debut feature fiction Ma folie (2015) won the First Steps Award and many other internationally-renowned awards. After Andri 1924-1944 (2003) and With Death as the Only Certain Fate (2006), Disappearance is the third part of a documentary trilogy about the history and future of the Slovenian national minority in Austrian Carinthia.

Awards:
Butnskala Award Creative Courage and Originality (AIPA, k.o., 2023) , Štigličev Pogled Award best directing (Directors Guild of Slovenia, 2023) , Award best film (Kleine Zeitung, 2022) , Vesna Award special achievement award (Festival of Slovenian Film, 2022)