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Observing Opazovanje

Janez Burger / Slovenia, North Macedonia, Italy, Croatia / 2023 / 82 min / Slovene

Through the lens of a thriller, Janez Burger explores where empathy has gone and where the limits of personal responsibility lie in the use of social media.

cast Diana Kolenc, Nataša Keser, Jure Henigman, Vladimir Vlaškalić, Benjamin Krnetić, Blaž Setnikar, Pavle Ravnohrib, Vito Weis, Timon Šturbej, Maks Dakskobler 

festivals, awards Tallinn 2023, FSF Portorož 2023 (Best Actress in a Leading Role)

IMDb

Lara, a paramedic intern, helps bring a young man named Kristijan to hospital after he was brutally beaten, and his beating live-streamed on Facebook. The video was watched by 20,000 people, none of whom called the police. Although Kristijan is in a coma, Lara starts receiving video clips from his FB profile, showing unidentified persons watching him getting beaten. She reports this to the police, but the video clips nevertheless develop into her worst nightmare.

“I am talking about the empathy that is dying on a very intimate level of each individual. About elementary empathy. /…/ When you feel the need to help another human being /…/. Sometimes an understanding look is enough, sometimes a word, sometimes a talk, sometimes a cry for help. Minimal effort is needed for this kind of empathy, but, in most cases, even that is too much. This is a form of passivity that is buried deep inside us. Mostly, we are not even aware of it, but it eats us up slowly, from within, and thus dehumanizes us.” (Janez Burger)  

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