Penalty Shot

Rok Biček (b. 1985). Class Enemy, his feature debut, won the Fedeora Award at the Venice Critics’ Week (2013) and was a finalist of the LUX Prize, while the documentary The Family won the Grand Prix at the Locarno Critics’ Week (2017). His work revealed a rare confidence, backed up by a clear aesthetic favouring one shot sequences, specific colour schemes and dramatic subjects narrated in an almost low-key, off-hand, but always controlled style. He plays with the potential danger lurking in small, everyday details. A gesture, a glance or the wrong word can have the potential to spark a fire. Rok is now working on the film adaptation of a novel Dark Mother Earth.