Principal photography on Matteo Oleotto’s sophomore theatrical fiction feature The Last Slap was completed on 27 February. Shooting lasted for six weeks, starting on 20 January, and took place in Tarvisio (Italy), Kranjska Gora (Slovenia), as well as in the cross-border agglomeration of Gorizia-Nova Gorica.

Oleotto is a Gorizia-born Italian filmmaker best known for his Venice-premiered 2013 debut feature Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot [+lee también:
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The script for the film was the first product of the series of scriptwriting residencies operating under the umbrella of the 2025 European Culture Capital GO!2025 shared by Gorizia in Italy and Nova Gorica in Slovenia. The cast is lead by young Italian actors Adalgisa Manfrida and Massimiliano Motta, who play Petra and Jure respectively. The cast also includes Giuseppe Battiston (recently glimpsed in Vincenzo Alfieri’s The Body [+lee también:
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The Last Slap was produced by Michele Neri for Staragara IT in co-production with the Slovenian production company SPOK Films represented by co-producer Jožko Rutar, in association with RAI Cinema and RTV Slovenia, making for the first collaboration between these two national televisions. It was supported by the Slovenian Film Centre, the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Fund, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission, as well as by the Gorica Film Commission, for which this is a first project since its founding last year, also as a part of the European Culture Capital efforts. Technical support was provided by Viba Film, which will also handle post-production on the film.