28/08/2018 - The Slovenian filmmaker's feature debut stars Matej Zemljič as a troubled teenager who ends up in a youth detention centre

The first feature film by Slovenian filmmaker Darko Štante, Consequences [+see also:
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The film focuses on 18-year-old boy Andrej (Matej Zemljič, seen earlier this year in the Karlovy Vary entry History of Love [+see also:
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The cast also includes Gašper Markun, Rosana Hribar, Blaž Setnikar, Lovro Zafred and Lea Cok. For cinematographer Rok Nagode, editor Sara Gjergek, and producers Andraž Jerič and Jerca Jerič, of Temporama, Consequences is also a feature-film debut. 

Other production companies on board are Zwinger Film, NuFrame and 100, and WIDE Management has the international rights. 

Meanwhile, the Czech-Slovenian-Polish-Slovak co-production Winter Flies [+see also:
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The last Slovenian title to be shown at Toronto was Damjan Kozole's Slovenian Girl [+see also:
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