When I Get Out
by Metod Pevec
Ko pridem ven, 2025, documentary, digital DCP, 1,85:1, 24, c, 106 min
SI
Finished
A psychiatrist and psychotherapist (Vladimir Milošević) arrives at the central Slovenian prison Dob. He presents a psychodrama workshop program for the inmates to get to know themselves better and to think about their future. Most of the convicts who sign up are those with the most severe crimes and lengthy prison sentences. A psychotherapist introduces the process to the applicants: through drama, they will discover unknown dimensions of themselves and enter into unpredictable relationships with other convicts. The selected convicts have very different criminal backgrounds and, in many ways, different or even opposite characters. They come from various departments, and most do not know eac…
Born in 1958 in Ljubljana, Metod Pevec is seasoned film director and screenwriter as well as novelist and actor. He has previously directed intimate feature and documentary films like ALEXANDRIAS (2011), DOM (2015), POD NJENIM OKNOM (2003) and I AM FRENK (2019). He is a recipient of Golden Arena award at the Pula Film Festival 2020 for the best directing of I Am Frenk, several awards for his documentary films including Vesna award for the best documentary Dom at the Festival of Slovenian Film 2…
A documentary film of this kind cannot be satisfied with a purely observational approach, so a psychodramatic intervention is needed. The objectives of the psychodramatic method are set flexibly, which means that the direction will be adapted to the psychodramatic or therapeutic dynamics, i.e., in particular, to emerging relationships and conflicts. The significant character differences, frustrations, and internal laws of prison life predictably give rise to disputes, which the documentary appr…
Paper Plane best screenplay (Directors Guild of Slovenia, 2026)
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Štigličev Pogled Award best directing (Directors Guild of Slovenia, 2026)
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Vesna Award best film (Festival of Slovenian Film, 2025)
Vertigo Ljubljana is a production company based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, established in 1994. The company has extensive experience in international co-productions and has (co)-produced over 50 feature films. A selection of recent titles includes: Pero by Damjan Kozole (documentary, 2023; IFF Rotterdam), The Happiest Man in the World by Teona Mitevska (2022; Venice FF – Orizzonti), Wake Me by Marko Šantić (2022; Black Nights FF - Critic’s Pick), and Small Body by Laura Samani (2021; Cannes FF Cri…