Metod Pevec / Slovenia / 2025 / 107 min

The director and the psychiatrist go together to the central Slovenian prison in Dob. The director believes that the stories are also imprisoned there, the psychiatrist believes that with his method of psychodrama he can open up a saving creative space and a look into the future for the convicts.

Story

"All crimes are welcome." These words were also spoken at auditions in the central Slovenian prison in Dob. The one-and-a-half-year-long experiment with a psychiatrist and a film camera was decided by mostly convicted of the most serious crimes: illicit drug trafficking, illegal transportation of migrants, armed robbery, sex offenses and murder. A group of very different convicts went from childhood to an uncertain future after serving their sentence in a long psychodrama gathering. It turns out that criminal identity is not something simple, as it seems on the pages of the black chronicle, nor can it be attributed to a single person. Father and son are to blame at the least, and someone else and something else. Sentenced to 30, 20, 17, 15 ... a total of 105 years in prison, sooner or later they hit the deepest existential low. There's no money, there's no gangster pride, there's no friends, there's so little or nothing that there's a surprising need for spirituality and creativity. That's where we met.