Synopsis
Making a film is a technically complex process and a long journey that requires a lot of collaborators. It's similar to reaching the top. It takes an extremely long time, it's risky, you don't know what it's going to be, you need everyone's trust along the way and a hefty chunk of simple luck. I've made 52 documentaries and one fiction film, but it always starts with the first step. There were Zvonko's book and slides, old analogue slides... There were very few of them, far too few for a film, and of course the story of Vanja Furlan, Tomaž Humar and Zvonko Požgaja, who still knew how to see and live the essence. I knew Zvonko, I knew a lot about Tomaž, like everyone else, but nothing about Vanja! Vanja and Zvonko are exceptional photographers, the portraits of the locals, the landscapes are some of the most beautiful I have seen, and behind each one you feel the author and the beauty of life... Anyone who has climbed knows that mountaineering is not the fanfare, the drums and the spectacle that it is filmed today. It is infinite patience, waiting, silence, concentration. I wanted the film to be the same. And during the making of the film I learnt a lot about Tomaž, Vanja and Zvonko. I learned a lot more along the way than I did, and I thought I knew everything about the film. It was a gift for me too."
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