Title: Moja Vesna
Moja and Vesna are two siblings who live together with their father. The family of three is currently in great mourning for their mother, who was killed in a car accident, and there is also the question of whether the accident may not have been intentional.
Since then, the father is trying to continue the daily routines, but this is easier said than done, because his older daughter Vesna is also heavily pregnant. She absolutely can’t cope with her mother’s death, and she also doesn’t understand what happened to her mother. She usually takes refuge in self-penned poetry slams, smokes one cigarette after another or hangs out with random strangers.
The 10 year old Moja, on the other hand, takes on the role of an adult mother. She listens to her sister’s much too complicated texts and gives praise as well as a smile, she tries to find baby clothes via ads on the Internet, buys medicines & vitamins for her sister, takes care of a birthday present or looks at her critically when Vesna consumes a cigarette again. But Moja is fighting a rather hopeless battle, because Vesna noticeably wants nothing to do with the child growing inside her, and the closer the day of the birth approaches, the more the family continues to break apart. When the time finally comes for the baby to be born, Vesna decides to go it alone. When her father and Moja visit her, Vesna can hardly stand to leave the hospital, she just wants to be alone again. She persuades Moja to go on a short trip to the sea, while they simply leave the father and baby behind in the hospital. But this short trip never comes to an end, and Moja begins to have doubts, which ultimately lead her to return home alone.
Conclusion:
Moja Vesna is a very quiet film that gets by with little dialogue and speaks more with the images and the chosen colors. For my taste, the drama was set a little too high, especially by the additional pregnancy of Vesna and her quite crass decisions. This is not to exclude that there can be such events, but for the characters in this film it would not have hurt to leave it at the fatal accident of the mother. Somewhat unusual was the role reversal of the two girls, so that the younger has taken over the role of her mother to keep everything going.
Actors:
Loti Kovačič (Moja)
Mackenzie Mazur (Vesna)
Gregor Baković (Miloš)
Flora Feldman (Danger)
Claudia Karvan (Miranda)
Rosanna Sciulli (Pflegerin)
Fiona Stewart (Kneipenbesitzerin)
Isaac Heim (Neugeborenes)
Director:
Sara Kern
More about the movie:
https://www.berlinale.de/en/programme/programme/detail.html?film_id=202205173
