Mark Zagmajster

While preparing to audition for the role of Slovenia’s national poet France Prešeren, an aspiring actor begins documenting his research into the poet’s life, loves and losses. As the project becomes increasingly personal, he starts searching for the kinds of experiences that performance alone cannot recreate.

Filip is making a surprise birthday video for his girlfriend Maja’s upcoming birthday. Along the way he runs into different strange situations and even stranger individuals.

When old graves are reopened, the dead must be cleansed before they are returned to the earth. But in a village where some rituals never truly end, the dead do not always stay where they were left.