René Goes to War

In a house nestled among the woods of Slovenia lives young René. He spends the summer vacation days playing alone and defending the national borders from an enemy attack. Using his drawings as inspiration, he crafts his toy weapons out of wood, then immerses himself in nature and the camouflaged bunkers left unused from the Second World War, engaging in a strict and imaginative game.

 

Note di regia

René Goes to War is a reflection on the imagination and the coming-of-age experience of a child who, starting from the archaeological remains of the battlefields of the Second World War and the current media interference in warfare, internalizes and reinterprets, in a time marked by the exploration of the territory and one's own manual skills, a personal and playful interpretation of the greatest tragedy cyclically perpetrated by adulthood.