Family Therapy

by Sonja Prosenc

Odrešitev za začetnike, 2024, fiction, digital DCP, 1,33:1 (4:3), 24, c, 122 min
Finished

SI, IT, HR, NO, RS

Family Therapy explores contemporary social issues in a humorous, tragicomic reimagining of Pasolini's Teorema: a young stranger enters a seemingly perfect Slovenian 'nouveau riche' family, disrupting the fragile family balance and revealing cracks in their carefully maintained facade... A family on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

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, Fabiana Balsamo, Tamara Babun, Matija Drniković, Dimče Stojanovski, Jarle Bjørknes
choreographer
Žigan Krajnčan
director of photography
Mitja Ličen
music composers
Primož Hladnik, Boris Benko
film editor
Ivana Fumić
production designer
Tajana Čanić Stanković
costume designers
Dubravka Skvrce, Gilda Venturini
key make-up artists
Lija Ivančič, Tina Šubic Dodočić
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, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism - MiBACT, Regional audiovisual fund Friuli Venezia Giulia, Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission - FVG, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Zefyr Media Fund, Filmkraft Rogaland, Film Center Serbia
distribution
Gustav film

MONO O
Rok Sečen
rok@monoo.si
Sonja Prosenc
sonja@monoo.si

Sonja Prosenc is an internationally awarded and critically acclaimed writer - director. Her second feature History of Love was awarded in the Crystal Globe Competition, Karlovy Vary IFF 2018. Besides international and domestic film awards her accolades include representation at Slamdance as one of the four globally selected directors of the future, at Cineuropa as one of eight European female directors to watch, and selection to Eurimages Gold Album. Both of her feature films (The Tree, History of Love) served as Official OSCAR Entries (2016, 2020). She glides successfully between internationally acclaimed arthouse dramas, comedy (awarded short Paradise, 2019) and mystery thriller TV series (Trigrad, first presented at Series Mania in France, and nominated for Heart of Sarajevo in seven out of eight categories at Sarajevo Film Festival 2023). With her third feature “Family Therapy” (original: Odrešitev za začetnike), she combines comedy with her distinctive artistic vision, creating a unique cinematic experience.

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