In southern Carinthia, before 1910, approximately 90 percent of all inhabitants spoke Slovene, today this percentage has dropped to an average of single digits.
In her essay-based documentary, Andrina Mračnikar shows in a personal way that political urgency is urgent. What happens when your mother tongue is taken away in your everyday life? What must politics do to prevent the extinction of a language whose protection is constitutionally guaranteed? (Diagonals, Astrid Peterle)
| Producer: |
Jürgen Karasek, Danijel Hočevar |
| Director: |
Andrina Mračnikar |
| Script: |
Andrina Mračnikar |
| Camera: |
Judith Benedikt |
| Editing: |
Gerhard Daurer |
| Director of photography: |
Judith Benedikt |
| Others: |
Babsi Adler, Karmen Daš, House of Vulva |
Andrina Mračnikar was born in 1981 in Hallein and grew up in Ljubljana, Cologne/Klagenfurt and Hodiš/Keutschach. She studied art history in Vienna and film direction at AGRFT in Ljubljana. From 2002, she studied screenwriting and directing at the Vienna Film Academy (Filmakademie Wien) with Michael Haneke and Walter Wippersberg, and completed both studies with honors in 2010.
After receiving several awards for documentaries, in 2015 she made her first feature film, MA FOLIE. The film received the prestigious First Steps Award and many other honors and awards, including the Austrian Film Award and two nominations for the Goldene Romy Award. Her first work for Austrian television ORF "Universum History - Kärnten/Carinthia - Ein Jahrhundert unterm Mittagskogel/Stoletje pod Jepo" (in collaboration with Robert Schabus) was nominated for the Television Award for Adult Education.
The documentary "Verschwinden/Disappearance" is the third part of a trilogy about the history and future of the Slovenian ethnic group in Austrian Carinthia, after "Andra 1924-1944" and "Der Kärtner spricht Deutsch/Carinthia speaks German".
