Slovene Film in Italy Series: Sterkijada in Udine

As part of the Slovenian Film in Italy Cycle, there will be a streaming of Šterek's film Šterkijada.

Šterkijada offers an intimate insight into the life of the family of Jure Šterk, the first Slovene to conquer the world on his own sailing boat. The film will be screened with Italian subtitles on 6 and 7 March 2025 at Il Visionario cinema in Udine.

"Sailing adventures and the tragic disappearance of my father were not the reason for this film. What attracted me were the moments in our family—sad, bitter, but at the same time comic and absurd. They reflect the complexity of the relationships in our lives," said the director and screenwriter Šterk about his film, which opened the Portorož Slovenian Film Festival in 2023. It is the story of an unusual family of three from a village near Triglav, with each of the protagonists supporting their own corner of the house, while a sailboat supports the fourth. The subtitle of the film "Around the World, Past Home" meaningfully encapsulates the content of this sad but also humorous autobiographical drama. Several personal items were salvaged from Jure Šterk's boat, including a logbook from 2008 and early 2009, which was later published as the book Dnevnik zadnje plovbe (Diary of a Last Voyage).

The sailor and seafarer, who sailed around the world alone and then disappeared in the Indian Ocean on one of his voyages, was portrayed by Janez Škof, his mother and wife by Vojko Silva Čušin, his son Igor in his childhood by Tito Novak, and later by Jernej Gašperin.