Bridge Listener
by Miha Mazzini
Poslušalka mostov, 2026, fiction, digital DCP, 2,39:1/2,35:1, 25, c
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Hana lives alone and maintains the family tradition of roadside innkeeping, which no one needs anymore because the traffic was diverted to the highway. One day she gets a guest, a woman with a profession she didn't know existed. The listener of bridges came to listen to the highway bridge, but she will hear everything else, even the darkest secrets.
Miha Mazzini is a writer with more than 30 published books and translations into 14 languages. One of his short stories won the US Pushcart Prize in 2012. He is also a screenwriter and filmmaker of award-winning short and feature films (his last feature film Erased among others won the best screenplay at Raindance Film Festival in the UK and it has been taken on by HBO and ZDF/ARTE).
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