Zavod KINOkašča

The city of Nova Gorica was designed as an example of modernism based on the idea of shared public space. The documentary short follows preparations for the renovation of a neighborhood where playgrounds with unique concrete equipment now stand deserted, falling into ruin. What will become of them? Has our relationship with the world and others changed, too, in addition to children’s play?

In this feature-length documentary film essay, archival footage weaves together childhood memories from once-opposing sides on the Gorizia border to rethink—80 years after WWII, and amid renewed calls for rearmament—the meaning of home and belonging.