Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Nina Blažin. Fotografia / Photography: Darko Herič. Montaggio / Editing: Zlatjan Čučkov. Musica / Music: Aldo Kumar. Suono / Sound: Julij Zornik. Interpreti / Cast: Manca Košir, Branka Mladenić Blažin, Nina Blažin. Produzione, distribuzione internazionale / Produced by, World Sales: Casablanca Film Production. Coproduzione / Co-produced by: RTV Slovenija. Con il sostegno di / Supported by: Slovenian Film Centre.
Retired professor, promoter of palliative care Manca Košir is diagnosed with cancer. She says her friendship with death began at the age of 19, when she spent most of the time in a coffin in the film Breza (The Birch Tree, 1967 by Ante Babaja). Today, Manca lets us into her intimate world, which is the door to the exploration of departure. The documentary is also an exploration of the director’s experience of the loss of her father. With the home videos of her mother, filmed by the director, she explores her father’s absence and
intertwines the material with Manca’s story. The Silence of Life was presented, among others, at the Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož and at the Torino Film Festival in 2024.
“The motivation for the film is the loss of my father. The film explores the question of mortality and the time we have left. What is important in life? Manca Košir was a great promoter of palliative care and her story is a doorway to research on departure.” (N. Blažin)
Nina Blažin
Film director and screenwriter, Nina Blažin was born in 1980 in Ljubljana. In 2006 she graduated in Film and TV Directing from the AGRFT, University in Ljubljana. Her debut documentary How Much Do You Love Yourself? won the Best Documentary Award at the Festival of Slovenian Film in Portorož in 2018. Nina is a member of the Directors’ Guild of Slovenia and EWA.
filmografia scelta / selected filmography 2015 Just the Two of Us cm / sf doc. 2018 Koliko se ljubis? (How Much Do You Love Yourself?) doc.; Premi / Awards: Portorose, Festival del cinema sloveno – Miglior documentario, Miglior montaggio / Festival of Slovenian Film Portorož – Best Documentary, Best Editing 2024 V tišini življenja (The Silence of Life) doc.
