Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song (Ida, ki je pela tako grdo, da so še mrtvi vstali od mrtvih in zapeli z njo)

Directed by: Ester Ivakič
Slovenia, Croatia, 2025, 109'

Cankarjev dom Cinema Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song (Ida, ki je pela tako grdo, da so še mrtvi vstali od mrtvih in zapeli z njo)

Screenplay: Ester Ivakič, Nika Jurman
Cinematography: Rok Kajzer Nagode
Music: Alenja Pivko Kneževič, Simon Penšek
Cast:: Lana Marić (Ida), Liza Muršič (Terezka), Judita Franković Brdar (Ivana), Matej Puc (Stanko), Milena Stropnik (stara mama), Petja Labović (Propalica), Mila Peršin (Anita), Miranda Trnjanin (Darja), Eva Stražar, Lara Maria Vouk
Producer: Temporama & RTV Slovenia & Gustav Film & Film Factory & Dinaridi Film
Distribution: Gustav film

Ester Ivakič's tender feature debut looks at the worlds children create to cope with the inevitable - and the power of imagination to become the song that breaks the silence.

Ten-year-old Ida, an imaginative but tone-deaf little girl, lives in a small village in the remote Prekmurje region with her parents and grandmother, to whom she is very attached emotionally. But when her grandmother's health unexpectedly deteriorates, Ida becomes convinced that song can ward off death. She joins the school choir in the hope that it will save her grandmother - but her voice is so off-key that she is rejected at the audition. Caught between reality and fantasy, Ida must finally grow up and embrace the change.

Through the world of childhood loneliness, I wanted to show the space between the lightness of everyday life and the quiet presence of inevitable loss. In the face of this feeling, one can escape into imagination, play, solitude, or time with friends, looking for safety wherever possible. The film mainly takes place in these moments.
Ester Ivakič

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