Family Therapy

by Sonja Prosenc

Odrešitev za začetnike, fiction, digital DCP, 1,37:1 Academy, c, 120 min
Expected delivery: 2024

SI, IT, HR, NO, RS

In this black comedy drama, we meet a seemingly perfect family consisting of Olivija, Aleksander, and their daughter Agata. When the 25-year-old Julijan arrives in their home, their lives are turned upside down, and their dysfunctional relationships are revealed. Through humour, Redemption explores the theme of the emotionally empty elites and places it in the context of contemporary social issues.

screenwriter
Sonja Prosenc
dialogue
Sonja Prosenc, Despina Ladi
script consultants
Marie Amachoukeli, Emmanuel Oberg, Kristoffer Joner
director
Sonja Prosenc
producers
Rok Sečen, Sonja Prosenc
co-producers
Marta Zaccaron, Jarle Bjørknes, Tamara Babun, Matija Drniković, Dimče Stojanovski, Thomas Lambert
executive producer
Aleksandar Arsovski
choreographer
Žigan Krajnčan
director of photography
Mitja Ličen
film editor
Ivana Fumić
production designer
Tajana Čanić Stanković
costume designers
Dubravka Skvrce, Gilda Venturini
key make-up artists
Lija Ivančič, Tina Šubic, Lana Rakanović, Sendy Kumalakanta
sound designer
Gisle Tveito

featuring
Marko Mandić, Aliocha Schneider, Katarina Stegnar, Mila Bezjak, Judita Franković Brdar, Jure Henigman, Borja Repe Novak, Ana Đurić, Kristoffer Joner, Alexis Matera, Matija Vastl, Mirjam Korbar, Stane Tomazin, Donatella de Colle, Žigan Krajnčan, Jernej Kogovšek

production
Zavod Mono o
co-production
RTV Slovenija, Incipit film, Incitus Films, Wolfgang i Dolly, Living Pictures
in collaboration with
Tomsa-Films
co-funding
Creative Europe - MEDIA, Slovenian Film Centre, Regional audiovisual fund Friuli Venezia Giulia, Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission - FVG, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Zefyr Media Fund, Filmkraft Rogaland, Italian Ministry of Culture, Film Center Serbia

MONOO
Rok Sečen
rok@monoo.si
Sonja Prosenc
sonja@monoo.si

Sonja Prosenc is a writer and director. After her feature films The Tree (2014) and History of Love (2018), which won an award in the Main Competition at Karlovy Vary IFF 2018, the dark comical drama Redemption will be her third feature. Her first two feature films received numerous awards at festivals around the globe and were official Oscar entries for Slovenia in 2016 and 2020. Sonja was selected by Cineuropa as one of eight most promising European female film directors and was presented in the Eurimages’ Gold Album of 50 female directors of the last 20 years in 2020. Her distinctive and poetic approach to film language has been appreciated by cinephiles and film critics alike, but she also likes to venture into genre film; in 2019, her short comedy called Paradise received a national Best Short Film Award.

“Presented at Producers On The Move, Cannes Film Festival 2018, Rome’s Mia Market 2021.”