BASKET - БАСКЕТ
Length of Film: 13 Minutes
Other (Specify): SHORT FILM
Release Date: 2-Apr-2022
Country of Production: MACEDONIA
Director: DIMITAR BANOV
Producers: BOGDAN JONCHEVSKI & DIMITAR BANOV
Basket is a short film about growing up and boy’s great
passion. It speaks about the children’s impatience to prove
and achieve something ahead of time and also characterizes the
everyday Macedonian mentality in the neighborhood.
Director Information:
Dimitar Banov
The story is set today, during the summer, in a small Skopje
area, around the playground and the outdoor basketball court.
The protagonist PEPO (16) already 3 summers in a row is
hoping, longing and trying to play on the better side of the
basketball court, where the net is, and where the older guys
play their hard and tough streetball games.
After many attempts, obstacles and failures to get into the
First league streetball game, not only that he’s been mocked
by the older players, stubborn Pepo betrays his friends (peers
from the b-ball court) on the other side of the playground.
When one of the big players gets hurt during the last
streetball game before the sunset, Pepo is called to
substitute his place. While the last game is on, only Pepo
plays as hardest as he can. In a crucial moment, when the
score is tie, he goes for a strong drive and gets smacked in a
sandwich between two big guys. We hear a silent bone brake and
a loud scream. Pepo breaks his right arm and is taken out of
the court. Next day he shows up on the court with a cast on
his arm and gets sympathies and autographs from both, the
younger and the older players for his courage. Pepo apologizes
to his peers and gives them a brand new basketball net for
their rim on the other side of the basketball court.
In the closing scene we see grown up Pepo playing high tempo
basketball with the older players.