The River Isonzo has always marked a boundary. Its fairly short course connects two different worlds: the Alps and the Mediterranean. It is a river that brims with contradictions: as beautiful as it is dangerous, as famous for its emerald colours as it is for its bloody battles. The First World War did not only destroy life, villages and fields, but also the relationship between humans and Nature. Who does the Isonzo belong to today? Slovenia steals it from Italy with its dams; Italy wastes its waters with its extravagant irrigation systems. Building contractors ransack it for gravel and industry pollutes it with waste. Amidst this tangled web of opposing interests, it is often forgotten that the River Isonzo is, first and foremost, its own master, and that the role it has played for millions of years is essential for everyone.
Directors
Nadja Veluscek
Born in Plave, near Nova Gorica (Slovenia), she graduated in Slovenian language and literature and Italian language and literature at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Ljubljana. She teaches Slovenian literature, working with Kinoatelje in Gorizia and is Director of the Zavod Kinoatelje in Nova Gorica. Together with her daughter, Anja Medved, she is the author of numerous documentaries made by Kinoatelje. In 2006 she received the prestigious ‘Premio dei Tre Comuni’ for transfrontier collaboration for the documentary film "Il mio confine"
Anja Medved
A director, she came to the world of film and contemporary art through the theatre, graduating in theatre direction at the Academy of Ljubljana. Today she transmits her experience through videos, documentaries and activities in the public field. Her work focuses on analysing historic memories: through the tales of people living in transfrontier areas, she analyses the complexity of the frontier identity and the structure of national history, creating intermediate spaces and exploring the contradictions of life on the frontier.
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