19/05/2020 - The Slovenian filmmaker's debut feature took part in the First Films First, MIDPOINT and APostLab development programmes, and the co-production markets in Trieste, Cottbus and Sofia

Actor Radoš Bolčina (left) and director Darko Sinko on the set of Inventory

Slovenian writer-director Darko Sinko's first feature film, Inventory [+see also:
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The main character, Boris (Radoš Bolčina), is an ordinary man who is brutally attacked one night by an unknown perpetrator. Police inspector Andrej (Dejan Spasić, from Nightlife [+see also:
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"The most important thing that I would like to say about the film is that, besides everything else, my goal was to make it entertaining as well," says Sinko. "Loneliness, the search for love, fear, paranoia, doubt, and the relativisation of our conceptions about life – they form the thematic core of the film. What I wanted, though, was to elaborate on these 'heavy' themes in an amusing and ironic tone."

Mirel Knez plays Boris's wife in the film lensed by prolific DoP Marko Brdar (Ivan [+see also:
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film profile]) and edited by Matic Drakulić (Oroslan [+see also:
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film profile], Playing Men [+see also:
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film profile]). Lija Pogačnik is producing along with Bulajić, and the feature is being co-produced by national broadcaster RTV Slovenija. It was financially supported by the Slovenian Film Centre, Viba Film, Creative Europe MEDIA and RE-ACT. It was developed at the Scenarnica, First Films First, MIDPOINT and APostLab film workshops, and was presented at the When East Meets West, connecting cottbus and Sofia Meetings co-production markets.