"Uglasevanje" (Tuning), a film by the up-and-coming Slovenian director Igor Sterk, has won best feature film award at the 54th Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival, the Slovenian Film Fund said on Monday.
According to the jury, Sterk's third feature was awarded "for the precise use of film language in the construction of a powerful visual narrative about the deconstruction of a middle class family".
Sterk's drama depicts the highs and lows of an intimate relationship between a couple in their late thirties, who are not able to live together anymore, yet at the same time do not find the strength to separate.
This is a first international award for Sterk, whose debut, the 1997 "Ekspres Ekspres" (Gone with the Train) also competed in the Mannheim festival in Germany.
The film, which has been screened at several film festivals this year, including Karlovy Vary (the Czech Republic), Montreal (Canada), Chicago (the US), and others, is to be shown at the 8th Festival of Slovenian Film, which opens on Thursday.
The Mannheim Film Festival took place between 17 and 26 November and is, according to the organisers, "one of the world's most important film festivals for discovery of international talents in filmmaking".
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