Mila / Marija

by Andrina Mračnikar

Mila / Marija, fiction, digital DCP, 24, c
In progress

SI, AT, GR

Carinthia, southern Austria, 1943. 20-year-old Mila joins a partisan resistance group fighting the Nazis from the cover of the forests. Before long she is in command of her own unit, making decisions about life and death. When she tries to start a new life after the country has been liberated, Mila once again has to confront the question: adaptation or resistance?

screenwriter
Andrina Mračnikar
director
Andrina Mračnikar
producers
Danijel Hočevar, Katja Lenarčič, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck, Ioanna Davi
director of photography
Serafin Spitzer
music composer
Tomaž Grom
film editor
Karina Ressler
production designer
Miha Knific
costume designer
Nadja Bedjanič
key make-up artist
Helene Lang
sound designer
Julij Zornik

featuring
Doroteja Nadrah, Marko Mandić, Petja Labović, Leon Lučev

production
Vertigo, Amour Fou, Indigo View
co-production
RTV Slovenija, ORF - Österreichischer Rundfunk
in collaboration with
Film Studio Viba Film
co-funding
Slovenian Film Centre, Austrian Film Institute, ÖFI+, Filmfonds Wien, Ελληνικό Κέντρο Κινηματογράφου / Greek Film Centre, CFC - Carinthia Film Commission
distribution
Cinemania group, Polyfilm

Vertigo
Danijel Hočevar
danijel@vertigo.si

Born in Hallein in 1981, Andrina Mračnikar grew up in Ljubljana/Slovenia and in Carinthia/Koroška, Austria. She studied History of Art in Vienna and film directing at the AGRFT in Ljubljana. From 2002 she studied Directing and Scriptwriting & Dramaturgy at the Vienna Film Academy with Michael Haneke and Walter Wippersberg. In 2010 she completed both studies with distinction. After winning several awards for her documentaries, her first feature film Ma Folie was released in 2015. The film screened at numerous international festivals, won the prestigious First Steps Award and received many other accolades, including an Austrian Film Award and two nominations for the Golden Romy. In her award-winning documentaries Verschwinden / Izginjanje (Audience Award, 2022 Diagonale), Andri 1924-1944 and The Carinthian Speaks German, Mračnikar has dealt with the history and future of the Slovenian ethnic group in Carinthia and with the resistance of the Carinthian partisans.

Vertigo Ljubljana is a production company based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, established in 1994. The company has extensive experience in international co-productions and has (co)-produced over 50 feature films. A selection of recent titles includes: Pero by Damjan Kozole (documentary, 2023; IFF Rotterdam), The Happiest Man in the World by Teona Mitevska (2022; Venice FF – Orizzonti), Wake Me by Marko Šantić (2022; Black Nights FF - Critic’s Pick), and Small Body by Laura Samani (2021; Cannes FF Critic’s Week; European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI).