FC Freedom

Title: FC Freedom

Genre: Fiction film

Director: Boris Petkovič

Producer: IRIDIUM Film

Countries of co-production: Slovenia, Greece, Croatia, Germany

In a divided world, can a ball be the beginning of a true friendship?

Story: ANEJ(14) is a Slovenian teenager who lives for football. He is on holidays on a Greek island with his family: his mother KATARINA(39), father BOSTJAN(40) and sister ANA(8). Anej takes an inflatable mattress and goes into the sea where he falls asleep. During the night, an inflatable boat hits Anej, who can barely keep his head above the water. SABI(14) drags him onto the boat. The boat arrives to the shore, it is full of migrants. The policemen take them to the refugee centre where Anej and Sabi start playing football. Bostjan, Katarina and Ana come to the centre. They meet Anej and go back to the hotel. The following day, Anej escapes back to the refugee centre. Anej and Sabi leave the centre, they play a trick on the beach and enjoy talking about football players. Bostjan comes to get Anej. Katarina reproaches Anej for leaving the family to hang out with unknown people. Anej defends himself, stating that Sabi saved his life. After returning to Slovenia, Anej gets back to his life, but he keeps in touch with Sabi, who is traveling through the Balkans. Anej asks his family to help Sabi, but Bostjan and Katarina refuse. Anej runs away from home and goes to the refugee centre Slavonski Brod (Croatia). He meets Sabi and encourages him to continue his travels. Through a series of adventurous situations and with fake documents for Sabi, they reach Slovenia, where policemen finally arrest them.Sabi is taken to the refugee centre in Ljubljana. Bostjan and Katarina arrange for Sabi to practice with Anej’s football club, but some players and their parents are against it. The parents and organisers succeed in banning Sabi from playing in a friendly game. Anej receives a video message in which Sabi explains that he left to Germany, because he doesn’t want to cause more problems to Anej. Sabi and Anej play football, each in his own field, but with each other.

IRIDIUM Film

(Leader)

Funded projects

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Cultural BEES

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Story (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Operation Nova

Moving Balkans

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Our Little Library: Literary Exchanges

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo. An interactive digital tool that brings kids closer to classical music (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

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THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

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Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15

Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years

Performing the Museum

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age