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Ten years after presenting Family Film, Slovenian filmmaker Olmo Omerzu returns to San Sebastian, competing in the Official Selection with Ungrateful Beings. Again, he focuses on a family, but in a far darker light: the story follows parents confronting their daughter’s anorexia and the desperate choices they make to save her. “How far can parents go, and where are the limits?” Omerzu asked at the press conference, while co-writer Nebojsa Pop-Tasic added, “There are no innocents here. Everyone has good and bad sides.” The film balances light moments with a “sinister undertone,” exploring the illness but also the lies, deceptions, and shifting dynamics fracturing families. Omerzu said his intention was not provocation but empathy, drawing on testimonies from young people with reallife experience of anorexia. “Audiences may disagree with the parents’ actions, but I hope they will also recognise their despair.”
Featuring a multilingual family whose fractured communication mirrors their emotional distance, and merging stark contrasts in setting, Ungrateful Beings challenges audiences to confront uncomfortable truths about love, survival, and deceit.
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