Discoveries from Slovenia World Cinema

Documentary about Radio Student from Ljubljana, one of the oldest and biggest European non-commercial radio stations.

It's been a while since we last hung out with the Pr'Hostar's very own staff. Back then, the staff had successfully joined forces to fight for their jobs and oust both the new customer and the money squeezing manager. What happened next? Did they manage to turn the pearl of Gorenjska into a thriving business or were they attacked by internal strife in true Slovenian fashion?

6 stories from 6 people living in 6 different places in Russia. Black and white documentary film is about simple Russian people and their simple everyday stories. All the stories are being told in the protagonists kitchens, since kitchen in Russia represent the heart and the soul of every house. The goal of the film is to break common stereotypes that west world have about Russian people. Main protagonists were given total freedom regarding choosing the topic for their story. Their topic selection and the way stories were told shows a lot about Russian society and about the way people live in today's mother Russia.

A Slovenian short fiction film.

Documentary edit chronicling American involvement in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and its consequences.

A "Kafkaesque" yet true story of ethnic cleansing in Slovenia in the 1990's; achieved not by the sword but by the bureaucrat's pen.

We see: a mosaic, printed on self-adhesive transparent film, cut and stuck to the front and back sides of 35mm clear leader. We hear: a piece of text, converted into barcode, printed onto self-adhesive transparent film, cut and stuck to 35mm clear leader.

A sentimental, delightful journey along the former railway route “Porečanka” that connected Trieste and Poreč from 1902 until 1935. Then it was dismantled and the tracks to be used in Mussolini’s war in Abyssinia but they sank in the Mediterranean – an ironic turn of history, an ideal subject for Karpo Godina, the master of tender wit.

Three different lives. Three different stories. One homeless person. He might change their lives forever. - A young waitress and an aspiring actress is from a broken home, living with her abusive father. She will do anything to seek freedom. The problem is that she is searching it in all the wrong places. - An art student comes from a warm and bubbly home. She is now facing a harsh reality and all the dilemmas that come by with living in the city. - A priest, sworn to God, is enchanted by the seductive charms of a young catholic girl. Now, he must make the life-changing decision. All seek redemption. But will they find it? We all make mistakes on our path and have big stories to tell to the world. Sometimes, we don't get a second chance. But hey, there's always tomorrow!

The rich history of famous Slovenian ski jump and its present-day use.

Famous influencer Nataša and cameraman David go to a prestigious restaurant to investigate a mysterious food that no one knows where it comes from. When they try it, they can't stop eating it and die.

Piece for phone and movie screen.

A forty-five-year history of a folklore group from Novo Mesto.

Experimental short film.

A documentary film about the Slovenian filmmaker Boštjan Hladnik.

The Space Among Us is coming of age drama, set in a rural, picturesque town Kostanjevica na Krki.

Martin Krpan is the only one who manages to defeat the terrible giant Brdavs. The emperor from the court in Vienna wants to thank him, he even offers him the hand of his daughter. Despite the objections of the empress and minister Gregor, Krpan manages to get the emperor to write him a permit for transporting English salt.

Slovenia, the spring of 1999. Two friends from a small village decide to transform their mopeds into choppers and embark on a journey. Looking for freedom and love, they travel through dreams of the past and visions of the future. Driven by mad impulses and haunted by the conservative moulds of traditions, they start believing and understanding things previously unimaginable. On the road through Slovenia and Croatia - two countries that have just recently seceded from Yugoslavia - they are accompanied by a young runaway woman with a mysterious past and an old biker who has seen the world in search of freedom but has still not found it. They challenge themselves and each other through shared experiences, severing their ties with and conceptions of the old and thus making way for the new.

Koyaa is painting a wooden chair. He notices he got some of the blue paint on the trashcan, too. He tries wiping the stain but that just smears it around, so he decides to paint the whole can blue instead. The can resists, rolling off on its little wheels, racing and chomping, as it goes, on the newspaper Mr Raven was using to build his birdhouse. Koyaa needs a clever way to catch it!

Short reportage on LGBT scene of Krško.

The chalk chases the shadow. Once it is captured, only traces of the game remain. Drawing, erasing, drawing again on a porous surface. Like on a sloppily wiped blackboard, shades of images that have long ceased to exist shine through. Špela Čadež stages a race between fleeting and manifest forms that – at least in terms of film theory – knows no winner.

Documentary from biggest rock festival in Slovenia. Performers: Big Foot Mama, Indust Bag, Dicky B Hardy, Warpigs, Veliki Bijeli Slon, Borut Veselko, Drustvo Mrtvih pesnikov, Adi Smolar, Dan D, Schal Sick Brass Band, Temni Angeli Usode, Plavi Orkestar, Hic Et Nunc, Durhmarsh, Wet Bed, Skroz, Terra Mystica, Z'kovaci, Rok Otocec, Buldozer, Rambo Amadeus, Zabranjeno Pusenje, Zoran Predin.

Born in 1907, Italina Lida "Ida" Kravanja known as Ita Rina, became famous in Europe and especially in France for her role in Erotikon (1929) by Gustav Machaty. At the height of her glory she got married and refused an invitation to Hollywood. After that she appeared in a few German/Yugoslav co-productions but her career slowly faded.

24 October 2015, a nice day in autumn in a nice landscape. A crowd of refugees and migrants accompanied by soldiers and police officers make their way from the Schengen border between Slovenia and Croatia towards the refugee camp in Brežice. Suddenly, the landscape starts to appear less nice than it was.

The video starts with a graphic sign from which emerge images, and this procedure points to the fact that any documentary is but an artefact. The narrator searches through documents and reconstructs the life of Lela: in the Middle Ages she was accused of witchcraft; in the 20th century she finds herself in the midst of war, in the future she will leave the planet. Lela's individual destiny is being inscribed into the fate of humanity by means of layering the image; only television shots of the war in former Yugoslavia are presented 'in one layer', clean. The television image has become the only document, the war - the only certainty. Autobus discloses two images of the electronic picture: the one that creates reality, and the other that creates artefacts.

On the Flies of the Market Place deals with the idea of the European space, divided and sacrificed. In a visually surreal world of facts and emotions—using documents from books and magazines—the video suggests a re-reading of the European space, i.e. Eastern and Western Europe. Referencing history, philosophy (Kant), and art, the video elaborates on the idea of Eastern Europe as the indivisible residua of all European atrocities. Eastern Europe is a piece of shit and the bloody symptom of the political, cultural, and epistemological failures of the 20th century.

A man, who caused a tragedy which hurt him and his family's lives, wants only one thing: That the people he loves and cares most about give him one last chance.

The film entitled Svetneči is an essay about death, which is trying to talk about life, and at the same time presents a gift to the tireless work and mission of Mitja Špik. It is a feature documentary film shot to commemorate the 86th anniversary of the life and creative path of the all-time Carinthian cultural creator Mitja Špik.

Maj, the son of a politician, loses his mother and with her the main family bond. The cold relationship with his father escalates into revenge, which leads to Maj's independence.

In 1947, the cemetery of Miren was split by a new border between Italy and Yugoslavia, dividing the living and the dead. As life adjusted, people found ways to overcome the divide, showing that while borders are drawn on maps, human connection continues beyond them.

The meeting of singers from Serbia Predrag 'Cune' Gojković and Minja Subota with their former friend, Slovenian singer Elda Viler. Pera Dimitrijević, a former singing star in Slovenia, organized the meeting. Dimitrijević has been unsuccessfully trying to create "a bridge of friendship" between Serbia and Slovenia for years. During the stay of Gojković and Subota, Slovenians were not interested in their concert.

Zdravko is a retired widower. His daughter never visits him and he lives a solitary existence. One day, he notices that people who walk their dogs in the park stop and chat. So he borrows his neighbor's dog, Wolfy, takes him to the park, and his plan works. He finds people to talk to - but he forgets about Wolfy and the dog is gone. What is he going to tell his neighbor?

A girl is contemplating her relationship with her boyfriend. Somewhere in the grass, the imprint of two bodies is slowly overgrowing. But in the corridor the light is still burning. He always forgot to turn it off. In her hands, a few stones. She synthesize a story not to remember but to forget.

A Slovenian documentary film.

Short movie.

A result of an extensive search campaign, in which the inhabitants of Slovenia were invited to send home videos and thereby allow insight into their experience of independence in 1991.

All she needs is love.

In the middle of uninhabited nature a stranded man Krištof (62) rescues Andrej (23) from the car, who tried to commit suicide. He takes him to the farm, where Andrej slowly comes to himself. Without words, a genuine link between them is attached, which, together with the idyllic environment, again pulls Andrej back into life.

World-class climbers Janja Garnbret and Domen Škofic tackle the tallest artificial multi-pitch route in the world when they scale the highest chimney in Europe at Slovenia's Trbovlje Power Station.

Father is dying at home. The pastor orders Janez and Marinka to call his son Štefan before he dies. Since father and son are at odds, Janez and Marinka are afraid that Štefan will not want to come. Therefore, at the approaching harvest, they lure him with the lie that his father is already dead. Despite the poor medical prognosis, the father is still alive when his son arrives.

Fragments of memories from our grandparents take us back to a time when the world smelled of rivers, forests, and freshly fertilized fields. People were resilient, cows and horses were loyal companions, and children were full of curious freedom and inventive solutions, always ready to get up to mischief while working.

Triglav, together with the Aljaz Tower, is an iconic and irreplaceable symbol of homeland for Slovenians, which is also present in the national flag. Due to its cultural, landscape, historical and other exceptional features, Triglav has a special significance for the Republic of Slovenia. On 5 October 1999, the Slovenian state declared the Aljaz Tower a cultural monument of national importance, and nationalized it on 4 November 1999. Jakob Aljaz's idea that a cylindrical metal building with a flag on top would represent a landmark marking Slovenian ownership of the peak of a Slovenian mountain had finally come to fruition.

11-year-old Roma girl Milena fights against bloodstained sheets and wedding cakes. Her sister views marriage as liberation, and Milena aims to prove to her that destiny - kismet - is a myth.

Črtomir Zorec in the ecstasy of admiring the Slovene poet France Prešeren, strove for the town to have a memorial museum, and fought for Kranj to become Prešeren's city. However, the road to get there was long and full of obstacles.

When an unusual visitor appears in the forest, a hunter is forced to deal with his hatred.

Still longing for love and beauty Nani Papali died at the age of twenty, leaving his diary containing the words of love he feared to speak about openly about his fellow student. In 1938 this diary was rewritten into a book, and was the first novel to deal with the subject of gay love in Slovenia. Scandalous for its day, it caused a great stir and met with considerable disapproval. The film Boys, based on this novel, depicts the intimate world of boys’ affections.

A police officer responds to an emergency call where he finds the center of unexplainable occurrences.

At the end of the summer, while preparations for an air show are taking place in the sky, a man and a woman go to the water. But the arrival of a legendary aerobatic pilot will not be the event of the day for them.

Laibach performing at Letno gledalisce Khislstein in Kranj, Slovenia.

In her autumn years, a woman reminisces about the fateful year of 1947, when the newly drawn border between Italy and Yugoslavia cut through the region of Gorizia; this was also the year when she found love. Hers is a peculiar tale with a tinge of the surreal, as well as a family drama shaped by real events.

Drifting through the densely forested landscape of southern Slovenia, the film encounters stories that emerge from the land itself, measuring the gap between an event of popular resistance and its lingering remains within a foreclosed present.

A Ljubljana youth thinks his dancing skills in a club are a god sent for women. But meeting one who doesn't at all fall for his charms he starts seeing it differently. After they spend a magical night together he starts feeling something he never felt before.

Portrait of Ivan Kramberger, Slovenian presidential candidate, who was assasinated in 1992.

Past or future. Surely an apocalypse and surely a romance. In the wet forests of a world which is not completely healthy, two persons meet. Human is not a common being for some time. Is the price of communication still too high?

Plečnik in photographs, Plečnik's house, Trnovo bridge, Trnovo port, Ljubljana castle, shoemaking bridge, triple bridge, market, lock, church of St. Jožef, church in Šiška, Church of Cyril and Methodius in Bežigrad, football stadion, baptistery of the church in Črnuče, church at Barje, NUK, Roman wall, Križanke, Vegova, Peglezen, Tivoli, Chamber of Crafts, mutual insurance company, Žale.

The director traces Slovenian children who were stolen during WW2.

Follow the Slovenian National Basketball team win a gold medal at Eurobasket 2017 with behind-the-scenes footage, interviews, and legacy they left for the entire nation.

What if the only language you've ever known is threatened to be extinct? Three deaf protagonists belonging to three different generations are fighting to keep the sign language, the only language in which they profess love and friendship, hardship and grief, alive.