Confirmation
by Darko Sinko
Birma, fiction, digital DCP, c
SI
In progress
Confirmation is a bittersweet coming-of-age comedy. Set in the modern Slovenian countryside, it follows the adventures and friendship of three teenage boys right before confirmation. When the village community is surprised by a drug find, their friendship is put to the test. It is a visually rich film with a fast-paced plot, with many distinct and colourful characters, exciting subplots and some surprising twists. It playfully explores irony, the grotesque, satire and, at times, ventures into the realm of surrealism.
Darko Sinko (1979) is a film director from Ljubljana, Slovenia. He graduated from Communication Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences (2006) and from Film and Television Directing at the Film Academy (AGRFT) in Ljubljana (2008). He has directed and produced several documentaries. With his first feature film, Inventory, he attended San Sebastian and many other film festivals and was awarded several times, including the Vesna Award for best directing at the Festival of Slovenian film (2021). …
Confirmation wants to be visually rich, fast-paced film with numerous vivid characters and intense happening. It tends to be a communicative film that is entertaining and moving at the same time.
December is a Ljubljana-based production company founded in 2013 by Vlado Bulajić and Lija Pogačnik (EAVE, EFA, FPS). With debut features Inventory (dir. Darko Sinko, 2021, San Sebastián) and Bitch, a Derogatory Term for a Woman (dir. Tijana Zinajić, 2021, Valencia) December established its presence internationally. The company later produced documentaries 2017 (dir. Goran Vojnović, 2022) and The Last Cowboy (dir. Tadej Čater, 2024, Sarajevo), and a debut feature Fantasy (dir. Kukla, 2025, Loca…