WHO DOES NOT JUMP
Boris Petkovic / Slovenia / 2025 / 73 min / English / distribution: Kineki Institute
Exclamations and echoes of Slovenian national consciousness through sport, memory and collective emotions. With archival footage, personal anecdotes and social considerations, the documentary explores how a nation builds through cheering and what it leaves aside (and who).
The Film explores how Slovenes began to perceive themselves as a nation through sports - first through skiing and ski jumping, and later also through football. Through the personal story of the author, who came from Bosnia to Slovenia, he reveals how sports successes have become the basis of national self-confidence, mostly as a counterpoint to Yugoslav identity. Who does not jump is a film about the ups and downs of national consciousness, about the power and danger of collective emotions and about the question: What does it mean to be Slovenian today and can sport still bear this burden?
"I grew up between Bosnia and Slovenia – between identities, languages and flags. Sport was my first passport. At the ski resorts I learned what it means to be ‘Slovenian’, and at the football fields I got to know everything that does not fit into this framework.
Who does not jump is my attempt to understand how a nation builds itself through sport, how skiing and Ski Jumping have become a symbol of discipline and purity, while football has been pushed away as too Balkan, too emotional. These choices reveal just as much about our fear as our pride.
Through personal memories and iconic moments, from the Flying hills of Planica to the euphoria of the 2017 basketball title, I explore what remains when the excitement passes. Can sport still connect us, or has it become just a story we tell ourselves about who we think we are?"- Boris Petkovic
KDOR NE SKAČE
Boris Petkovič / Slovenija / 2025 / 73 min / slovenščina / distribucija: Zavod Kineki
Vzkliki in odmevi slovenske narodne zavesti skozi šport, spomin in kolektivna čustva. Dokumentarec z arhivskimi posnetki, osebnimi anekdotami in družbenimi premisleki raziskuje, kako se narod gradi skozi navijanje ter kaj vse (in koga) pri tem pusti ob strani.
Film raziskuje, kako so se Slovenci kot narod začeli dojemati prek športa – najprej s smučanjem in smučarskimi skoki, pozneje pa tudi z nogometom. Prek osebne zgodbe avtorja, ki je iz Bosne prišel v Slovenijo, razkriva, kako so športni uspehi postali temelj narodne samozavesti, večinoma kot nasprotje jugoslovanski identiteti. Kdor ne skače je film o vzponih in padcih narodne zavesti, o moči in nevarnosti kolektivnih čustev ter o vprašanju: kaj danes pomeni biti Slovenec in ali lahko šport še vedno nosi to breme?
»Odraščal sem med Bosno in Slovenijo – med identitetami, jeziki in zastavami. Šport je bil moj prvi potni list. Na smučiščih sem se naučil, kaj pomeni biti ‘Slovenec’, na nogometnih igriščih pa sem spoznal vse, kar v ta okvir ne spada.
Kdor ne skače je moj poskus razumeti, kako narod gradi samega sebe skozi šport, kako so smučanje in smučarski skoki postali simbol discipline in čistosti, medtem ko je bil nogomet odrinjen kot preveč balkanski, preveč čustven. Te izbire razkrivajo ravno toliko o našem strahu kot o našem ponosu.
Skozi osebne spomine in ikonične trenutke, od letečih gričev Planice do evforije košarkarskega naslova leta 2017, raziskujem, kaj ostane, ko navdušenje mine. Ali nas šport še lahko povezuje ali pa je postal le še zgodba, ki si jo pripovedujemo o tem, kdo mislimo, da smo?«– Boris Petkovič