Slovenian filmmaker Nejc Gazvoda broke out in the early 2010s as the director of two award-winning films, A Trip [+lee también:
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The picture, billed as “an absurdist tale about absurd times”, follows Maja (Mojca Funkl, from Sanremo [+lee también:
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The film begins with the reopening of the schools after the end of the pandemic, but the children do not seem to have returned to the way things were before. Jan starts being bullied by his peers for no reason, and Maja makes an enemy in the form of a young woman, also a psychologist, played by Klara Kuk (Don't Forget to Breathe [+lee también:
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“Role Model is a film about a particular period, the middle of 2021, set in a primary school, and all the issues it deals with are concrete – peer violence, loneliness and dignity,” says Gazvoda. “At the same time, the feature is a trip back to my primary-school years and my youth, which seems stranger and more unnatural with each passing year, just like the times we are living in now after the pivotal, terrifying, unforgettable 2020. This is probably my most personal project, set in the most impersonal era of recent history. It is the tension between these two opposites that interests me in the film and that I hope will make it original.”

Also starring Croatia's Marina Redžepović (The Staffroom [+lee también:
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