At the height of winter in an isolated mountain cabin, seven elite lawyers discover that their team-building retreat is not a reward but a punishment for their wrongdoing. Someone stole €900,000 from their law firm, and it’s their task to find the culprit among them. Chaos ensues: the cabin caretaker is fatally wounded, a snowstorm blocks the road, and their phones are nowhere to be found. Stranded, the lawyers rely on the skills of a mysterious Foreigner. Those once last become first, opening a chance for reconciliation. But will it be enough to stop the human vultures from getting away with their prey?
Vida Breže is an award-winning director, screenwriter, and actor with a Master’s degree in Directing Fiction from the prestigious Goldsmiths College, London. She also holds a degree in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts. Her profound knowledge of culture and the arts enriches her visual storytelling, while her background as an actor, ballerina, and choreographer enhances her exceptional skill in directing performances and crafting mise-en-scène. With 19 years of on-screen acting experience and 12 years in directing and screenwriting, Vida has established herself as a versatile and accomplished artist. Her latest short films, Sapper Smith and A Matter of Minutes, have both won awards and enjoyed successful runs on the festival circuit. As an actor herself, Vida is deeply passionate about eliciting authentic and dynamic performances from the actors she directs. She is equally committed to creating visually stunning narratives that seamlessly blend aesthetic excellence with compelling storytelling.
Blade, an independent production house founded in 2012 in Ljubljana, specialises in independent and auteur films, focusing on genre, debut, and socially engaged films. Our films aim to tell stories based on a diversity of life and imagination, are visually stunning, and are always original. We collaborate internationally to expand horizons and connect with excellent international creators. Our first feature, and also the first Slovenian horror feature, Idyll (2015, T. Gorkič), has been awarded nationally and internationally. Our second feature, political thriller All Against All (2019, A. Košak), a co-production between Slovenia, Northern Macedonia and Croatia, has been screened at more than 40 international festivals worldwide and has won many awards. Blade films have been awarded internationally at many prestigious festivals such as Berlinale, Oberhausen, Sarajevo, Chicago, Aspen, and many others. Our last feature film is the youth film Tartini's Key (2024, Vinci V. Anžlovar), an adaptation of Roman Kukovič’s popular children's book of the same name. Tartini's Key had its national premiere at the 27th Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož, its world premiere at the 30th Sarajevo film festival and will have North American premiere at the Belmont World Film's 22nd Family Festival. At the moment Blade’s upcoming line-up includes a feature documentary Punk under the Communist Regime by Andrej Košak (pitch on MAKEDOCS 2021 – Best Pitch Award and BELDOCS 2022), a feature documentary in development Half Time by Maxime Berthou and Mark Požlep, a psychological thriller Vultures by Vida Breže (pitch at European Genre Forum, Balkan film market) and a mockumentary End of Gravity by Igor Zupe (pitch at València Film Afers, Mostra de València Mediterranean Coproduction Forum 2024).