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    RENÉ GOES TO WAR

    RENÉ GOES TO WAR
    RENÉ  VA ALLA GUERRA
    Italy, documentary/experimental, 19′

    SYNOPSIS

    Little René lives in a house in the woods of Slovenia. He spends his summer holidays playing alone, fantasising about defending the national borders from an enemy attack. The child designs and builds wooden toy weapons and then immerses himself in nature, hiding in abandoned bunkers from the Second World War and staging imaginative battles.

    CREDITS

    Written & directed by: Luca Ferri, Morgan Menegazzo, Mariachiara Pernisa
    Produced by: Andrea Zanoli
    Cinematography: Morgan Menegazzo
    Editing: Mariachiara Pernisa
    Original Score: Luca Severino
    Sound: Mariachiara Pernisa
    Cast: Rene Mlinar (himself), Anka Mlinar (herself), Andrej Mlinar (himself)

    STATEMENT OF THE DIRECTORS

    RENÉ VA ALLA GUERRA is a meditation on imagination and the coming of age of a child who, starting from what remains of the battlefields of the Second World War and contemporary wars seen through the media, as he goes out exploring and tests his own manual skills, internalises and reworks a playful interpretation of a tragedy perpetrated by the grown-ups.

    • European Short Film Candidate 2024