Discoveries from Slovenia World Cinema

A young car enthusiast who has issues with parents and surroundings decides to create his own vehicle and run away with friends from his everyday problems.

Kumbum 1+1 (1975-1987) is a variation on author's Kumbum 1 (1975-1987) feature-length alternative film, where 1+1 refers to the film being projected as two parallel (side-by-side) 16mm projections, each playing half of the feature film. Consequently, the runtime of this variation is cut in half. The conceptual design of the film is based on the assumptions and findings of empirical science concerning human perception of visual material. For the purposes of the film, the author of Kumbum developed a complex mathematical structure and, in accordance with it, arranged the visual material into a sequence of (thematically) diverse moving images subjected to rapid montage. This system served as a decoder for the lengths of 12,000 shots, composed of television footage combined with shots taken from the existing filmography of OM production. Kumbum drives and immerses the viewer in the visual, imposing the next piece of information on the brain even before the previous one has been processed.

Mysterious envelope circles between people. What is inside it?

Teenager Mina definitely wants long hair, as her crush Nejc would surely love her afterwards.

A documentary about the Slovenian rock band Big Foot Mama.

Divorced father Borko shows up at his daughter Anja's birthday party dressed as a cowboy. After making a fatal mistake, his already fragile relationships unravel, and the line between his western fantasies and reality begins to tear.

Ella sits in the compartment and thinks. Ivan gets on the train. They meet.

Remembering the Others is a documentary about the meaning and power of public monuments in Kosovo. Who has the privilege to be represented in monuments? Why are there almost no monuments dedicated to women in Kosovo? Which other groups of people are denied representation in monuments? If the stories of marginalized groups are hushed, the canonised stories remain undisputed, thus creating a situation where some privileged groups are given access to top positions in society, whereas others are erased and pushed into oblivion.

A Balkan folktale about a girl who disguises herself as a man and defies the world. On her journey, she overcomes magical creatures and her own fears – until she meets a legendary beast that changes her forever.

On a faraway Dalmatian island in the 1920s Pogana, a woman from the inlands, is sold to be the new wife of a widow sailor with five children. When the Sailor is lost at sea, Pogana is left at the mercy of the cruel villagers and their customs.

Peklenski načrt is a Slovenian Fiction TV Film. Featuring Andrej Miljković, Katarina Čas, Maja Medvešek. It is defined as a youth. It was directed by Anton Tomašič. It was produced by RTV Slovenija.

In 2010 and 2011, the huge Slovenian construction sector, which employed more than 70,000 foreign workers, collapsed, leaving behind it debts, halted construction activities and exploited and unpaid workers. Most employed workers came from the territory of former Yugoslavia, especially Bosnia and Herzegovina. While the government silently watched the exploited, underpaid, unpaid and humiliated workers, the accumulation of wealth on one side led to the accumulation of indignation and resistance on the side of the exploited and those struggling against exploitation. Because the competent state bodies, the mass media and the broader public had failed, the self-organisation of workers was inevitable. They demanded better living conditions, the payment of unpaid salaries and social security contributions, equal opportunities, etc. Armin, Aigul and Esad take us through particular stories and specific areas of work (activism and the construction industry), making them general and universal.

Short featured Slovenian film, directed by Lea Menard in 2004.

Experimental short film

The drama is inspired by Cankar's work "In the Gorge".

A young man, Peter, returns home in the middle of the night after a long journey. He returns to his home, to his parents. At the same time, he is also returning to his long-term girlfriend, who, during this time, has given birth to their daughter Vita. Peter is determined that his journey has come to the end, and that he will settle down and stay at home. Yet, he quickly realizes that a decision is easier to accept than to actualize it.

Peter and his cousins are spending their summer vacations with grandfather. They decide to spend the night camping outside, yet they don't truly expect what kind of ordeals they are about to go through even before the morning sun rises.

Two couples in present day Ljubljana enroll in a dance school for tango, and in the process learn a great deal more – about life, about love, about themselves.

The beginning of the 21st century is marked by globalization and the uniformity of opinions, ideas, and visions. The village of Juršče, far removed from the broken and crazy world, yet so close, still preserves the memory of how their ancestors lived.

An archeologist's wife is kidnapped by a mobster and he is forced to seek out an ancient book for him.

Slovenian experimental film by Vuk Ćosić. ASCII image conversion from the famous pornographic film Deep Throat. The author reduces the spaciousness of the image to a combination of black and green and a few different symbols. He is interested in the persistence of data, but it is also a more complex issue regarding the transfer of information. Video Deep ASCII plays with the boundary at which information disappears.

Duša is a young dancer and dance instructor. Torn between a dominant mother, an absent father and a married lover, she is sinking into a typical crisis of the thirties, which gets worse when she starts suspecting that someone has been following her and invading her privacy.

Two elderly musicians in search of a sweetheart from their younger days cross paths with an up-and-coming young singer. Together, they embark on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.

The documentary film depicts one aspect of the hacking scene and its evolution in the last 20 years. Who are hackers and what drives them? The film was produced for the 20-year anniversary of SI-CERT (Slovenian Computer Emergency Response Team) in cooperation with Sever & Sever Production and Slovenian National TV.

In the village of Anhovo on the Soča River, there lies an old asbestos factory that has managed to outlive wars, regimes and borders. It provided employment and stole life. Even today it continues to exhale smoke.

Story is based on a novel of the first Slovene female writer from the 19th century when also the story of the film is set. It's a never-ending and forever repeating story of neighbors, who can not reconcile. As they need the fight to stand out for their position of "neighbors", as that's the ultimate and only role of people living next to each other being called neighbors.

An intimate portrait of a newborn baby boy Tibor and his two mothers, Daja and Jedrt, who fight against the social discrimination of their family. They are the only homosexual parents to have taken an active part in the campaign for the same-sex marriage referendum that took place in Slovenia. The challenge of motherhood was exacerbated by Daja and Jedrt's political opponents, who have publicly accused them of paedophilia and labelled their relationship as unnatural.

How to relate the first Lumière film about a train to dangerous scenes shot on a smartphone by contemporary refugees hidden between iron wheels? The maker is part of an activist movement striving to revive the independent, critical newsreel efforts of the 1960s and 1970s.

Five people who sworn as children that they will decide about their small town's destiny, share the power among themselves.

A young social worker gets her first independent case. But his solution won't be as easy as we'd like...

After a chance encounter, Oli and Miha become friends, or something more. Or less.

Rajko is a professional magician who breaks his arm during a performance, but because of a bureaucratic error, his insurance company refuses to pay his claim. Outraged by the injustice, the insurance agent Marcel arranges a meeting with the head of Tangenta. But, in a fit of anger, Marcel unexpectedly kidnaps the CEO and soon, they are on the run together.

Call It Amber wine documentary is an immersive documentary that takes the viewer on a journey back to the origins of amber wine - an ancient style that has suddenly experienced a resurgence in the last decade.

Jure and Julija live in a relationship that is largely maintained by clichés and formalities.

A middle-aged man, wandering around the dark music clubs of Ljubljana, meets an attractive girl and together they go to her home. When everything goes as he imagined the girl asks for a favor.

Mental illness is a global phenomenon that causes enormous harm not only to individuals, but also to society and the economy. Yet its causes and effects are largely ignored. This documentary fills that gap. Over a period of seven years, researchers from Germany, South Africa, Australia, Slovenia, Japan, and India investigated the socioeconomic causes.

A day after an incident during a school production of a play called Again, lead actor Aljaž turns up in school. In the hallways, he is confronted with questions about the previous night, and forced to deal with his popularity, his love interest, his mistakes on stage, his friends' jokes, and his fear of failure. His love of acting and the positive attitude of his friends help him find the way to bring the schoolday to a happy close.

Jasmina and Zijo live on the outskirts of Ljubljana. Zijo works as a butcher and sings Bosnian sevdalinke (love songs) and drinks out of despair. Jasmina is pregnant and wants to live a normal life.

There were times when the economy was thriving and all indicators were turned upwards. But then finances crashed and reality hit – the economy had been on steroids. While professionals argue whether the financial crisis runs in the form of V or in the form W or has become a line segment at the bottom of the graph, we are wondering: "How could this have happened?!" Some answers can be found in To The Top And Back. Featuring Albin Kordež, a financier, a former president of the board, manager of the year, a member of the Bank of Slovenia governing board, the mastermind of management buyout, a "tycoon", a convict residing in the semi-open unit of the Dob Prison.

Rainbow eye-shadow palette. A blond woman tells of her childhood in Yugoslavia, when in the eyes of others she was still a boy. Sessions with psychiatrists, compulsory military service, the school environment, her mother and religion – none of these have shaken her belief that she had been born in the wrong body.

Many musicians have their music freely available online. There is hardly a Slovenian band which hasn't given a free concert. On the other hand, production is on the rise, both in terms of music and events, although it seems that it is beginning to lack audience. How to come to terms with this "gratis culture", who foots the bill, what are the pros and cons of this – these are some of the questions the documentary film attempts to answer through interviews with more than twenty Slovenian players on the scene – from venues, labels, the media, journalists, to musicians. How to put a price on music?

Documentary western drama about the last days of the hypnotic community of plastic bottle collectors aka bottlemen at one of the biggest unsanitary landfills in the world.

In 1996, after seven days of extremely difficult ascent, Vanja Furlan and Tomaž Humar managed to reach the summit of Ama Dablam in Nepal on the northwest face. Zvonko Požgaj, their only link to the valley, followed the events from the base camp, led and encouraged them to cross the emetre, and at the same time carefully recorded and recorded everything that happened during those days dramatic. The film about the disappearance, time, mortality, memory and eternity of the human spirit pays tribute to one of the greatest achievements of Slovenian mountaineering in the world and is dedicated to Vanja Furlan and Tomaž Humar .

Today is a good day for a soccer derby between the Cubs and the Tigers. With a stocky Cheeky in goal, victory is practically guaranteed. The game will not be easy for the Cubs, their plans are thwarted by a cunning Brutus, the new captain of the opposing team. Will his tricks be enough for him to win?

"Letter to a Child" combines intimate conversations with perfect strangers and personal letters contemplating bits and pieces of life, collected and addressed to a child. In a series of “guided monologues” people – from kindergarten children to the vintage ages – are contemplating and reliving their lives. When they forget about the camera and they turn their eyes inside, the film starts. They are alone with themselves in front of us and then we are alone with ourselves, with our life, long passed, very present. Through the film the intimate diaries are silently drawing in the back a picture of human life of the last hundred years.

The higher you climb, the deeper you fall. A psycho-drama about a professional mountain climber who's dreams became brutal as Dante's Nine Circles of Inferno. Will he understand the message of Nature?

Film about Damir Avdic, artist of words who speaks about the world as he sees and understands it. With no superfluous comments. Words as sharp as a razor blade, as straight as a bullet, as honest as a heart. On the stage he is alone, with his guitar and his voice.

Remake of the first 10 films made by the Lumière brothers, which were screened in Le Salon Indien du Grand Café, Paris, on 28 December 1895. This marked the official beginning of –cinema. Director’s idea was to go to the same places where the Lumière brothers made their first films. In the same hours of the day, with the same light, the same camera angle, and the same lenses. To film the vision of Europe as seen by the Lumière brothers, 120 years later.

Hinko Smrekar was a brilliant painter, graphic artist and cartoonist, a companion of the greats of Slovenian literature and fine arts between the two world wars. Freedom was the basic foundation of his life and creation, as he himself wrote, he could not "force himself even with batons and bayonets not to look and think with his own head."

On December 10, 2009, the second memory-sharing campaign from the series Cross-border memory-gathering campaigns: Ordinacija spomina / Corsia dei ricordi was organized in the house of the former border crossing between Nova Gorica and Gorizia. Citizens of both cities were invited to select a few photos taken in this border area from their home albums and share their memories of a frozen moment.

In an idyllic, seemingly sleepy village below the Pohorje mountains, the local girl Ana brings her boyfriend Gasper from Ljubljana. Their visit initially unsettles her traditional Pohorje farming family, and then the unease spreads to Ana's former boyfriend, the stubborn Pohorje native Tone. Gasper embodies everything that challenges the Pohorje way of life, so they decide to get rid of him as soon as possible... Will they succeed?

Luka is a 12-year-old boy with muscular dystrophy. His body is getting weaker and weaker, so he can only do a little more movement and strength. He doesn't close his eyes to his fate, but he doesn't give up. He wants neither pardon nor mercy for himself. Luka draws a balloon with which he flies to a fictional film animated world, where with the help of film magic almost anything is possible.

In a basement, a man built his masterpiece ...

April 1941, days before the beginning of the Second World War in Slovenia. A small unit of the Royal Yugoslav Army is sent to the northern border to defend against an attack by Nazi Germany. However, their mission soon turns into a struggle for survival, and their ultimate goal is no longer the defence of their homeland, but merely their own lives.

A Slovenian documentary-fiction TV film.

Vokal Xtravaganzza 2008 concert, as partly seen on YouTube

The author continues with her main themes: the relationship between man and woman, the intrusion of the mythical into the rituals of everyday life. This video uses many electronic image processing options. Most fascinating are the scenes with "morphing" (electronic transformation), in which the character on the canvas is transformed into an identical figure on the video surface, or the latter "freezes" into a character in a still image. Once again, the author insists on a real natural environment, which deforms it and thus equates it with the artificiality of the video image.