Dušan Šarotar

Mario operates a crane in a small shipyard on an idyllic island. On a windy and gloomy day he gets struck by a thought that the sea could be something different in his eyes. He decides to run away from his loneliness and routine.

The documentary about Feri Lainšček, one of the most prolific and highly acclaimed Slovenian writers and poets, foregrounds the essence of his creativity shaped up by his commitment to love, the Pannonian landscape with the River Mura, friendship with the Roma people, the blending of the magical world and reality, and the ongoing search for answers to the most fundamental questions of life. In the film, sections of his life are juxtaposed with his poems about demons.

Feel for the Wind is about the power of poetry, about the wind, and about what lies outside our control. It is a poetic portrait of Prekmurje, through the masterful words of the Prekmurje poets Feri Lainček and Dušan Šarotar, interpreted on film by a Bela Krajina native Maja Weiss. In 2004, the publisher Franc-Franc issued a book called Feel for the Wind, which is a unique spiritual monograph of Prekmurje and, at the same time, part of a wider artistic project. The authors envisaged the project as an artistic journey following the feel for the wind, which is understood as a metaphor for silence, for mystery, for that complete otherness.