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A film about the first Laibach album officially released in Yugoslavia. The record came out despite the political ban that was in place on the band's name at the time, in 1985 - but without the name or a title. A black cross on the cover was enough.
Eva's confrontation with the corrupt winemakers' elite, which controls the whole town in conspiracy with mysterious winepires.
Memories of a departure that was never a choice. Empty spaces that still carry traces of those who once passed through. Along these paths remain stories of loss, silence, and a home that never truly disappeared.
Man has always strived to free himself from nature. The history of philosophy is a story of the reflection of this tragic endeavor. With the rapid development of technology, however, we have found ourselves in a new contradiction. Man has never been more liberated from nature, but at the same time, as a species, never more fragile. It seems as if the question of the survival of our civilization has become a matter of intimate decisions and that we are each approaching a potential common catastrophe on our own. The idea of a project was born in which we would discuss the riddles of humanity in private. Not to alleviate feelings of loneliness, but to contribute to the awareness of a community of loners. We invited some exceptional creators, scientists and philosophers who open up thoughts in a way that only good friends can; they awaken the thoughts that sleep within us.
The documentary presents lives of street children in the city of Makiivka, East Ukraine. Through the presentation of individual stories of children living on the streets it enables an insight into their day-to-day struggle to survive and depicts conclusions of their street careers that often end with death.
A documentary tale about the sound recorded in the spring of 1973 in Tomaž Pengov's apartment at 1 Prešernova, Ljubljana by the sound engineer Aco Razbornik. These recordings became "Odpotovanja", the mysterious and first independent LP album in the former Yugoslavia. The exciting story is revealed by exclusive videos, found photographs, objects, and of course the friends who took the 23-year-old Pengov on an exciting journey of planning, recording, designing and promoting the album, which immediately after its release became a cult and sought-after diamond of the pop culture underground scene of the time. But the story does not end with the album's release. The record is still turning.
Experimental short film.
NK Maribor celebrates 60th anniversary. This documentary tells a story about football and its importance to players, fans and the city.
A documentary about modern-day comics.
For a year, the director of the film follows the construction of a luxury hotel through his kitchen window. Fragments of the dissolution of his relationship sneak into the recorded material uninvited, shaking the very foundations of the film.
Hazira survived Srebrenica. She saw the war, it corroded her life. She has been stuck in a refugee camp in her own country for 29 years, working hard and unceasingly to make ends meet and keep the trauma at bay.
Slovenian experimental film by Zmago Lenardič. In the video, the author presents documentary-experimental footage of the erupting volcano Etna in Sicily. The scene is almost static, showing a volcano that was active again after a long period, and the author found himself at the foot of the mountain at that time. Video defines a kinematic experience supported by dramatic music from which media space-time emerges.
After her long-term relationship falls apart, Klara moves to her own place. She stays in touch with Jure, her ex, through occasional phone calls. But when she senses a new woman in his life, Klara is sent into a frenzy of stalking, doubting her decision and herself.
After the funeral of Franc Gula, relatives gather for the funeral feast in the village inn.
There is a farm somewhere in Koroska region. This farm treasures something precious - a table that can lift itself up and answer questions. The table has been in the family for more than centuries, and nobody knows who manufactured. The table needs quite some energy to be set into motion; therefore Grandma Marija and granddaughter Simona place their hands on it. The table won't answers any questions about death. It freely admits to occasionally telling lies. What is more, if asked whether it is all-knowing, it raises itself particularly high. Miroslav Mandic embarks on a journey because he wants to see this wonder with his own eyes.
David, a young man in his early 20s, escapes the mundanity in search of something bigger. His goal is to sail around the world in a stolen boat.
Hitchhiker is a clash of two very different worlds. Despite big differences, a young hitchhiker and an older lumberjack find themselves in a situation where they need each other.
Documentary film about punk band Kuzle (1979-1981) from Slovenia, Yugoslavia.
Val Sebald is an author who comes to the Island to retreat from life and land. There he lives among the islanders and his favorite women, the heroines of various maritime novels. His relations with actual women from his past are reduced to messages in bottles that he ceremonially throws into the water. Val brings the real and imaginary people together into a place he is comfortable with, while his real life also becomes more and more one with the sea and the underwater world.
Tired of her life, a girl sets out to wake up and construct her own reality.
An elderly woman's day is turned upside down when she sets out to find her missing husband, who's been struggling with memory loss.
Tilen is a child of divorced parents who lives with his mother and grandmother. In order to reunite his family, he makes up the idea that his father is coming to visit and that he will take them to the zoo. Shocked, the mother prepares for an unexpected visit, but when it turns out that her son was lying, she is forced to reevaluate her relationship with Tilen and reconnect with him sincerely.
A film about short-lived Slovenian war of independence.
When Primorska was annexed to Yugoslavia, Gorica remained in Italy. On the Yugoslav side, construction of a new Gorica began in 1948. The town, located on a meadow, in a swamp, in an abandoned cemetery next to the old Frnaža, stood for many years like a skeleton in the middle of an empty space along an immensely wide street that led nowhere. People who moved there from all over soon realized that they had found themselves in the “wild west” and that they would have to build Nova Gorica themselves. The documentary video essay tells the story of the town’s origins and raises questions about its identity and vision at a time when the border is once again losing its meaning. It is narrated by its inhabitants and those who helped build it in one way or another.
It is a story about a group of elderly users from the nursing home of Danica Vogrinec from Maribor, who, despite their age and disease limitations, are eager to show their greatness and for some, the first performance in their lives. They named themselves VIP Danica. With an old-timer, they go to a very unique festival in Kragujevac. The journey is long and they are not of strong health. However, they are determined to perform their performance for the last time...
A personal story about coming to terms with being who I have become. The film explores the struggle to live and accept the person I am, with all its faults, and to find a way to move on, even when it seems impossible to shake off the pain of the past. It's about accepting my body, even if it sometimes feels like I'm losing it.
The wind is turning. An end - it nears.
The Front Lines of Kurdistan is a TV documentary about the modern history of the Kurds, an oppressed and besieged people attempting to create an independent state on the ruins of Middle East. The Kurds are the largest ethnic group without one; Kurdish-inhabited areas reach into Iran, Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. The documentary takes us to the battle lines between Kurdish forces and the Islamic State in Kirkuk and the Sinjar Mountains (Iraq), and Kobani (Syria). In December 2014 and January 2015, Erik Valenčič made it to the front lines of the fierce offensives and interviewed key figures in the struggle for an independent Kurdistan.
A family is heading out for a day trip. The parents are acting weird: Father stays at home, and as Mother seems absent the daughter is slowly taking her role. Lin, who is eight, feels that some things are left unsaid. What will the day bring?
In Ki-Ki-Do's forest, a strange creature – a frightened long-necked Ostrich – is on the run from a ruthless hunter. As Rosalia the Pig fails to protect Ostrich, Prince Ki-Ki-Do is called to action! But Ki-Ki-Do has been hit by a tranquilizer gun and is sleeping like a baby. Ostrich seems to be doomed to spending the rest of its life behind bars...
The response of the director Karpo Godina and poet Boris A. Novak to the manipulations of the government and the party machinery that bicycles were a means of Nazi and fascist propaganda.
A climbing documentary about a young Slovenian climber, Natalija Gros, discovering new dimensions in climbing. From the urban and temperamental streets of Buenos Aires and vast pampas to extraordinary landscapes of Patagonia you find variety of objects and shapes to climb. Urban style bouldering is one of the latest free climbing disciplines, exploring possibilities of urban environment as a test bed for a climber's imagination and competence. Natalija Gros goes even further and pursue for new dimensions in nature as well. She unleashes the child in herself and embraces the freedom of climbing. She can climb wherever she wants on her favorite playground all around this beautiful Argentina.
Koyaa is getting ready to step outside into a cold winter day. He tries to grab his scarf off the clothes stand, but it slithers away like a snake, acting silly! Will Koyaa manage to grab it?
Zoran Predin, the bandleader of Lacni Franz, talks about his views on music and other stuff.
Humans' biggest delusion is their illusion of freedom. Newborns have no choice, they are brought into this world regardless of their will, groomed as utterly powerless beings to submit to the social norms imposed by those in the position of power - But what if there is an alternative?
Spaniard Kara visits a friend Nastja, who lives in a small Slovenian village. After some drinks with Nastya's friends on the local court, they decide to break into an abandoned school. The innocent party turns into a flight of dark forces.
Film is based on true story about a murder of soldier Blaz Furjan in Slovenian army in 1997.
Actors Nina and Alen rehearse a seduction scene between Elmira and Tartuffe. As they struggle with the performance, the director and the professor intervene. When that doesn't work, the professor steps onto the stage. The rehearsal takes an unexpected turn with an uncomfortable confrontation between Nina and the professor.
Married to a wealthy meat dealer, Mojca (45) is worshiper of fine art and mother of two grown-up kids. Desperate for love and passion, she becomes an object of video installation which her ex-lover and now renown conceptual artist Milos is completing with a help of her daughter Nika. Mojca’s hunt for love becomes a wild journey for everyone involved in this film, including the crew shooting the film Installation of Love…
The feature-length documentary Dream 1991 takes us back to the beginning of the 1990s, when a series of strategic decisions and decisive actions paved the way for an independent Slovenia.
Set in the near future, 2017, presents a mix of four stories that take place in a fictional Pomurje town in one day. A narrative that shows the imprint of today's crisis in some dark future that we would not want.
A 19-year-old woman is killed by a bullet intended for her father in the tragic culmination of a bitter family feud between her father and his cousin, who is now imprisoned for murder. Or is her death just another twist in a saga of blood revenge? In the Albanian mountains, the ancient tribal law Kanun rules, and even though the killer is behind bars, the last word in the case has not been spoken. Religious and legal authorities - like the families involved - have their own powerful and conflicting interests in the controversial law, which is a taboo both in church and modern society. The question, however, is if the young woman’s father can find the faith to not only forgive his cousin, but also reconcile himself with him and break the vicious circle once and for all? Marija Zidar’s epic drama was filmed over 5 years in an obstinate patriarchal world, on the threshold of modern times. A mountain western from the old world, from the stuff of antique tragedies.
A tribute to the enduring representatives and all metal heads that left a mark on the Slovenian music scene in the '70s and '80s. Heavy metal in Slovenia was forced to constantly defy nonconstructive criticism and was quite underestimated during its existence. Thanks to the steadfast persistence, irrepressible energy and at the same time peaceful ideology and a firm backbone, the heavy metal subculture succeeded to overcome the boundaries of the political system, time and space, thus becoming a part of culture and sociopolitical history of the nation. The authors of the film try to immortalize the spirit of this era of Slovenian music through testimonies of the main representatives of Slovenian heavy metal scene from those times, and offer it to future generations. At the same time, they want to pay these incredible musicians and their audience due respect which they rarely got during the time of their musical existence.
The short animated film based on Janez Jalen's fantasy novel Bobri, which takes its material from prehistory, from the period when the Mostiščar or Koliščarji culture flourished in the Ljubljana Marshes by the large lake.
What happens when contemporary improvised music forms ties with Balkan street musicians? Tomaž Grom, a Slovenian double bassist, composer, improviser and researcher of acoustic potential, took his van and began to look for collaborators on the streets of Maribor, Zagreb, Tuzla, Novi Sad, Priština, Tirana and Skopje. Balkan Whispers is constantly on the brink of misunderstanding, getting lost along paths that are not to be found in contemporary sat-navs. However, despite all obstacles, a group of Balkan street musicians eventually get together for a contemporary music gig.
Tristan wakes up to an unusual morning where nothing is as it should be. First, his washing powder disappears, then the washing machine, and there is also his peculiar neighbor Klara, who adds to his confusion. Tristan gradually loses his head and all of his belongings.
Ahmed and Dario want to earn extra money obtained from a robbery in Bosnia. Unknowning to them, bright Nina is involved in their plans.
Indian Summer has arrived. Amid the excitement and hustle, Daddy Webster gets sick from the rush and can't spin silk. He must rest. By evening, the family gathers at the festive table and recalls their best adventures of the year.
Ester is happy to be starting high school, but trouble begins when she discovers that her ex-boyfriend Kaj has also enrolled in school with the goal of getting back together. With all her peers supporting Kaj, Ester befriends Vanda and they pretend to be a couple to win acceptance from classmates and Vanda's parents. The plan works at first, but their newly awakened emotions soon start to complicate things.
Colleagues, friends, and other close acquaintances all give their account of the man who led strife-torn Yugoslavia from German occupation in World War II and walked her down a political tightrope for 40 years, begrudgingly gaining the respect and admiration of both the Soviet and Western superpowers.
Two women of different generations encounter, each in its own way dealing with issues of life and death, and spend a day together.
A documentary about the last living victims of Nazi racial experiment.
Marko is an 11-year-old boy who would like to be like a cloud.
A 17-year-old female teenager with zero sexual experience gets pregnant with her equally inexperienced peer, which creates lots of trouble for parents who prove to be no less childish when comes to problem-solving.
In Varja Mocnik's documentary, members of former Yugoslav rock band Buldozer, their friends and fans reminisce about the time of the release of the band's debut album Pljuni istini u oci (1975). Their accounts interlace with fictitious scenes, the record artwork, archive material and animation, to ultimately come together into an inventive, surrealist film that speaks not just of the legendary album, but also of the society and reality of the time.
Short avant-garde film.
Klemen and Katja decide to move abroad. Klemen leaves a few months before Katja and prepares everything for her arrival. But not everything goes according to plan. Katja finds out that she got pregnant while Klemen was in America. Their relationship falls apart.
Short film about three friends, who are engaged in robbing. But it appears that their friendship is not as strong as they thought.
In a distopian future few shoemakers are working under an all seeing eye of the factory owner.
A short fiction film.