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Common Pear

Gregor Božič
Slovenia / United Kingdom
15'

In a not-too-distant future ravaged by climate crisis, a team of scientists analyse the archival footage of farmers from the past, in an attempt to understand their connection to the land.

It’s highly unlikely that scientists of the future will look at images of an old man climbing a tree in search of seedlings, but wouldn’t that be miraculous? Gregor Božič’s great intuition transforms a documentary about farmers into true letters to posterity. A wild pear tree that seems to have appeared in the old man’s dream and told him where his lost brother was. An emotional and visceral connection to the land, to the fruits, to the seasons. The face of an old woman looking into the camera as if trying to find herself—these all become indecipherable vignettes for the people of the future, presented here as housed in capsules and devoid of emotions. (Georgiana Mușat)

Tuesday, September 23, 19:00

Cinemateca Eforie
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DokuFest - Int’l Competition (August 2025) Melbourne IFF - Int’l Competition (August 2025)

Gregor Božič

Gregor Božič is a Slovenian director, scriptwriter & cinematographer. After graduating from film schools in Ljubljana and DFFB in Germany, Gregor enrolled in the postgraduate program at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in France. His work has been presented at festivals in Cannes, Toronto, Locarno, Rotterdam, New York, Tallinn, Marseille, Nara, Shanghai, among others. As a director of photography, he has collaborated with directors from across the region, most notably with Nebojša Sljepčević, Matjaž Ivanišin, and Igor Bezinović. Since 2008, next to working on film, Gregor has also been passionately researching old and endemic fruit varieties. Collaborating with farmers from the Italo-Slovene borderland, in 2013 he planted a gene-bank orchard in Goriška Brda and wrote a book on the cultural heritage of the found varieties of the Slovene-Italian borderland.

  • Technical sheet
  • SCRIPT: Marina Gumzi, Gregor Božič
  • IMAGE / CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gregor Božič
  • SOUND DESIGN: Gregor Božič
  • ORIGINAL MUSIC: Hekla Magnúsdóttir, Tim Gowdy
  • CAST: Dora Ciccone, Toby Matthews, Jože Krečič, Jerneja Prinčič, Marijan Jug, Mario
  • EDITING: Gregor Božič, Lukas Miheljak
  • COLOR EDITING: Luis Reggiardo
  • VOICEOVER: Gregor Božič

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