Fiction & Documentary

Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY Films From Europe Of the Heart P11 DOCU- P19 MINORITY MENTA- CO-PRODUCTION P16 FICTION RY GOD EXISTS, HER NAME P2 HOW MUCH DO YOU IN PRO- IS PETRUNYA LOVE YOURSELF? by Teona Strugar Mitevska P23 by Nina Blažin FICTION DUCTION STITCHES SING ME A SONG by Miroslav Terzić FILM MY LAST YEAR AS A by Miran Zupanič LET HIM BE A BASKET- LOSER BALL PLAYER 2 MY GRANDPA IS AN by Urša Menart DAUGHTER OF by Boris Bezić / Gustav film ALIEN IN SLO- CAMORRA by Dražen Žarković, Marina ERASED by Siniša Gačić FALL GENERATION Andree Škop by Miha Mazzini & Dušan by Igor Šterk / AAC production Joksimović THE BUSINESS OF KALOGHERO – THE VENIA REVENGE THE BODY SECOND LIFE STORIES FROM THE by Petra Seliškar / Petra Pan by Davide Del Degan CHESTNUT WOODS by Marija Zidar Film by Gregor Božič FATHER ANTIGONE by Srdan Golubović DON’T FORGET TO by Jani Sever / Sever & Sever BREATHE ROSA by Martin Turk RIDERS by Katja Colja by Dominik Mencej / Staragara ALL AGAINST ALL by Andrej Košak NOCTURNAL QUARTET P15 by Vinko Möderndorfer / Forum OROSLAN Ljubljana P22 by Matjaž Ivanišin ONCE WERE HUMANS MINORITY EVERYTHING IS EXPERI- by Goran Vojnović / Arsmedia CO-PRODUCTION DIFFERENT by Metod Pevec INVENTORY DOCUMENTARY MENTAL by Darko Sinko / December THE DIARY OF DIANA B. HALF-SISTER MAN WITH THE by Dana Budisavljević by Damjan Kozole SHADOW GANJA WILL SET YOU by Ema Kugler FREE WONDER WHEN YOU’LL CORPORATION by Miha Čelar / Astral film MISS ME by Matej Nahtigal SANREMO by Francesco Fei by Miroslav Mandić / Filmostovje ORCHESTRA by Matevž Luzar / Gustav film

EVA [WORKING TITLE] by Tijana Zinajić / December “It seems like the Špela graduated in art history, which means that majority of young, she has never had a steady job. Her best friends moved out MY LAST educated and of the country years ago and do not intend to return, while “In the autumn Ana gives birth in the local hospital and everything ambitious people Špela decided to stay in Ljubljana. At the age of 29 she ends of 2017, the San goes well. There is only a small bureaucratic problem: Ana have left Slovenia up lonely, unemployed, and stuck sleeping on her disap- ERASED Sebastian FF is not on file. It must be a software glitch, nothing serious. in the past couple pointed parents’ couch in the midst of Slovenia’s seemingly URŠA MENART by Miha Mazzini accepted Erased After a few days, Ana finds herself entangled in a tangle of YEAR AS of years, while we never-ending economic crisis. She decides to turn her (1985) is a writer and as one of the Kafkaesque proportions: not being in the computer means & Dušan Joksimović MIHA MAZZINI who have stayed life around, but her newfound friendship with a group of director. Her docu- three works-in- no social security, no permanent address. Ana is suddenly a (1961), writer, com- keep asking similarly-fated losers threatens to even further prolong her mentary features There Izbrisana, 2018, fiction, DCP, 16 : progress that foreigner, even though she has spent all of her life in Slo- puter expert, director, A LOSER ourselves if we extended adolescence. Once Was a Land of 9, c, DCP/stereo, 85 min were especially venia. Legally, she does not exist. Her child is therefore an and screenwriter. He have really made Awards: FSF 2018 – Best Film, Best Script, Best Supporting Hardworking People underlined orphan. And orphans can go up for adoption. has an MA in Creative by Urša Menart the right decision. Actress, Special Mention of the Jury of Slovenian Film Crit- and What About Moj- GUSTAV FILM among the On 26 February 1992, the Ministry of the Interior of the Writing for Film and Ne bom več luzerka, 2018, My Last Year as a ics, Iridium Post-Production Award ca? deal with national Frenk Celarc upcoming films. Republic of Slovenia erased 25,671 of its own nationals. The TV from the University fiction, DCP 2K, 2.39 : 1 / 16 : 9, c, Loser is a drama/ identity and the rela- [email protected] In November majority of those are still unable to regain their legal status. of Sheffield, and a PhD 5.1, 88 min comedy about written & directed by Urša Menart dop Darko Herič, ZFS editor Jurij tionship between histo- 2018, the film had in Anthropology of disillusionment, Moškon music Simon Penšek sound designers Julij Zornik, Gregor Švabič ry and pop-culture. its international written & directed by Miha Mazzini co-directed by & dop Dušan Joksimović Everyday Life from the VERTIGO shame, and the production designer Marco Juratovec costume designer Tina Bonča As scriptwriter, she has premiere in the editor Tomislav Pavlic music Jura Ferina & Pavle Miholjević sound Institutum Studiorum Danijel Hočevar gap between the make-up Lija Ivanič colourist Teo Rižnar production manager Matija worked on two feature First Feature designer Borut Berden production designer Matjaž Pavlovec costume Humanitatis. Mazzini [email protected] overeducated, Kozamernik _____ cast Eva Jesenovec, Živa Selan, Saša Pavček, Branko films by the Sloveni- Competition of designer Sanja Džeba make-up Talija Ivančič _____ producer Frenk Celarc is a voting member www.vertigo.si underemployed Završan, Špela Rozin, Jurij Drevenšek, Tina Potočnik Vrhovnik, Lara an director Damjan the Tallinn Black executive producer Petra Vidmar production Gustav film co-producers of the European Film millennials and Vouk, Timon Šturbej, Aljaž Jovanović, Matic Lukšič _____ producer Danijel Kozole: Nightlife (as Nights FF.” Ankica Jurić Tilić, Ira Cecić, Biljana Prvanović, Diego Zanco associated Academy. their parents, who Hočevar production Vertigo co-producers Teo Rižnar, Julij Zornik co- script collaborator) and producer Christoph Thoke co-production Kinorama, Delirium, Pakt Media have had high production RTV Slovenia, NuFrame, Studio 100 in collaboration with FS Half-Sister (as co-writ- co-funding Slovenian Film Centre, Eurimages, Croatian AV Centre, Film www.mihamazzini.com expectations for Viba filmco-funding Slovenian Film Centre er). My Last Year as a Center Serbia, Creative Europe – MEDIA world sales Pluto Film their children and Loser is Menart’s first feel powerless fiction feature film. when they see them fail.”

DUŠAN JOKSIMOVIĆ (1963, rs) is a director of photography, who has received several national and international

FICTION awards for his work. Erased is his first foray into direction. FICTION

2 Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY 3 “Slavia Veneta (Benečija) is a mysterious valley between two nations. For centuries it was prone to political tensions, poverty and migrations. With this film, I wanted to pay a small homage to the people of this bewildering land and to their rich, surprising world of imagination.”

The fifteen-year-old Klemen lives with his elder “An intimate brother Peter and single mother in a small and remote rural drama about DON’T town. Klemen’s well-established routine of spending time growing up, with his beloved brother on the tennis court and by the jealousy, first nearby river gets interrupted by Peter’s sudden and pas- love, and strong FOR- sionate love affair with his gorgeous peer Sonja, which trig- emotions that one MARTIN TURK gers a torrent of conflicting emotions and reckless actions is often overcome (1978, it) graduat- Once upon a time, somewhere in a far-off land, lived two old people, a hus- in Klemen. with during this ed in film and TV STORIES band and wife. The old woman fell ill and died, and the old man, a stingy carpenter, period of life. directing from the found himself all alone in the world. Pondering the life he had lived, he met a young GET TO written & directed by Martin Turk co-writer Gorazd Trušnovec dop It’s a film about AGRFT. His films have woman – a chestnut seller, who desperately wanted to leave home and find a better Radislav Jovanov – Gonzo editor Beppe Leonetti music Teho Teardo feelings we were been screened at film FROM life elsewhere… A chance encounter gives rise to a dreamy fairy tale about the disap- sound designer Riccardo Spagnol re-recording mixer Julij Zornik location all familiar with festivals worldwide, pearance of a small community that once existed on the Yugoslav-Italian border. BREATHE sound mixer Antonio Petris production designer Marco Juratovec once, but that including Cannes – Winner of This Is It 2018 Award for postproduction – Trieste FF (When East Meets costumes designer Emil Cerar make-up Mojca Gorogranc Petrushevska we have since Quinzaine. In 2009, by Martin Turk West). production manager Matija Kozamernik _____ cast Matija Valant, Tine forgotten in the Turk was selected for THE Ne pozabi dihati, 2019, fiction, Ugrin, Iva Krajnc Bagola, Klara Kuk, Nikola Đuričko, Ronja Matijevec haste of our daily the 18th session of the DCP, c, 97 min Jerman, Jakob Cilenšek, Miha Rodman _____ producer Ida Weiss lives, even though Cannes Cinefondation directed by Gregor Božič written by Gregor Božič, Marina Gumzi dop Ferran Paredes Rubio editors GREGOR BOŽIČ production Bela film co-producers Marta Zaccaron, Darija Kulenović they have shaped Residence. In 2018 he CHEST- Gregor Božič, Benjamin Mirguet, Beppe Leonetti production designer Giovanna Cirianni costume (1984) studied film BELA FILM Gudan, Marina Andree Škop co-production Quasar, Studio Dim, RTV our personalities finished his second designers Katharina Jockwer, Mateja Fajt _____ cast Massimo De Francovich, Ivana Roščić, Giusi directing at the AGRFT Ida Weiss Slovenia, RAI Cinema co-funding Slovenian Film Centre, FVG AV Fund, decisively.” feature film A Good Merli, Tomi Janežič _____ producer Marina Gumzi production Nosorogi co-producer Igor Prinčič in Ljubljana and the [email protected] Croatian AV Centre, Creative Europe - MEDIA, ReAct, FS Viba film world Days’ Work, the winner co-production Transmedia, RTV Slovenia, DFFB co-funding Slovenian Film Centre, Creative Europe - DFFB in Berlin. He has http://belafilm.si sales Intramovies of the Sarajevo FF pilot NUT MEDIA, Eurimages, MiBACT, FVG AV Fund, FVG Film Comission, FS Viba film directed short films, project Sarajevo City of created videos for Film for Global Screen. theatre, and worked as The film is produced WOODS a director of photogra- by the Turkish public phy. Since 2012, he television TRT and co- by Gregor Božič has been working on a produced by the Obala Zgodbe iz kostanjevih gozdov, research of autochtho- Art Centar, Sarajevo 2019, fiction, 35 mm / S16mm, nous fruit varieties in and Bela Film, Ljublja- c, 81 min collaboration with old na. Film premiered in farmers from the Ital- October at Busan IFF. NOSOROGI ian-Slovenian border- Marina Gumzi land. It was during this filmography (from 2015) [email protected] time that he collected Don’t Forget to Breathe (2019), http://nosorogi.com numerous memories fiction; A Good Day’s Work (2018), and stories from the fiction; Sunday Morning (2017), th short; Pappenstory (2017), docu- FICTION mid-20 century, which inspired him to embark mentary; A Well Spent Afternoon upon making his fiction (2016), short; Doberdob (2015),

feature debut. docu-fiction FICTION

4 Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY 5 ALL AGAINST ALL by Andrej Košak Vsi proti vsem, 2019, fiction, DCP, 2.35 : 1, c, 5.1, 105 min

BLADE PRODUCTION Zoran Dževerdanović ANDREJ KOŠAK [email protected] (1965) was extremely www.bladeproduction.com successful already with his first filmOutsider (1996), one of the biggest Slovenian national “The film focuses A political drama with elements of a thriller discusses politics, electoral hits, screened at more on corruption at fraud, and the decay of moral values, taking place in the fictional town of Rovte than 30 IFFs where It is rituals that make us all levels of the under the idyllic Alps. Franta, a corrupt mayor, is about to lose the election. After a it has received many human. Practicing rituals society. Naturally, TV debate, where he fails utterly, Franta calls his mistress Jožica in desperation. She awards, as well as the makes us a community, while it does not offer advises him to seek the aid of Fleischmann, a criminal who is the only one capable of Slovenian candidate without them we are a herd. any answers. solving the problem on such short notice. After all, there are only four days left until for the foreign-lan- Instead, it makes the elections… guage Academy Award. us face the written & directed by Andrej Košak dop Jason Mann editor Martin Ivano production designer Sanja His other two fiction question of our Vatić costume designers Suzana Tkalčec, Ines Atman make-up Lija Ivančič _____ cast Vlado Novak, features were inter- ethics on the one Silva Čušin, Blagoj Veselinov, Iva Krajnc Bagola, Peter Musevski, Aleksandra Balmazovic, Valter nationally successful hand and our own Dragan, Jernej Kuntner, Igor Zupe, Uroš Potočnik, Jure Ivanušič, Milan Tocinovski, Maja Martina Meljak, as well: Headnoise self-interest on Erna Rudnički, Lana Vatsel, Manuela Svorcan, Petar Strugar, Rok Vihar, Nešo Tokalić _____ producer (2002) and The State the other.” Zoran Dževerdanović production Blade produkcija co-producers Ilija Ciriviri, Dejan Ilijev, Aleksandra of Shock (2011). After Balmazović co-production RTV Slovenia, Mind Productions, Daiga co-funding Slovenian Film Centre, his stay abroad, in 2017 OROSLAN FS Viba film Košak returned to the The film follows the death of a man known as Oroslan and the typical ritual by Matjaž Ivanišin Slovenian national film of the wake. It consists of three parts that make a whole: 1. receiving the news about programme with the Oroslan, expected delivery: March someone who died; how the news spread and reach the people; 2. the societal, social fiction short Niko. 2019, fiction, S16mm, DCP, 1.66 : 1, phase; 3. remembering the deceased, superstitions about dead people, and anec- c, 72 min dotes.

STARAGARA Miha Černec [email protected] www.staragara.com MATJAŽ IVANIŠIN (1981), writer and director, graduated in film and TV directing from the AGRFT. He has directed several fiction and documentary films, for which he has received both national and international awards – including the Georges de Beauregard International Prize for Playing Men.

filmography Oroslan (2019), fiction;Playing Men (2017), documentary; Karpo- trotter (2013) documentary

directed by Matjaž Ivanišin written by Matjaž Ivanišin, Nebojša Pop Tasić dop Gregor Božič editor Matic Drakulić music Branko Rožman sound designer Julij Zornik _____ cast Margit Gyecsek, Milivoj Miki Roš, Dejan Spasić _____ producer Miha Černec production Staragara co-producer Jordi Niubo co-production i/o post, Film Factory co-funding Slovenian Film Center, Municipality of Maribor, State Fund for the with the support of

FICTION Support and Development of Czech Cinematography Agora Works in Progress world sales Slingshot Films FICTION

6 Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY 7 METOD PEVEC (1958) is a film director and screenwriter, novel- ist, and actor. He graduated in philosophy and “The script was The unexpected inheritance from their dead father comparative literature written because of causes a dispute between Frank, the rebel who still swears from the Faculty of EVERY Frank. Although by solidarity and “the old values”, and his brother Rajko, a Arts in Ljubljana. In the merely a fictional typical post-transition tycoon. While Frank investigates the 1970s and 1980s, before character, the origins of the money that their late father had appropriated and during his studies, HALF- man almost during his various suspicious dealings as one or the visible he starred in several THING IS literally knocked protagonists of the Slovenian independence, Rajko wants Slovenian and Yugoslav on my door one to lay claim on it with the help of lawyers and the network of feature films and TV se- day. He did not his father’s “cronies”, who do not shy away even from mafia ries. Among them, sev- SISTER beat around the DIFFER- methods. Rajko’s wife Ines, who has in fact been in love with eral collaborations with by Damjan Kozole bush, and he had Frank all along, once again finds herself in the middle of a the Serbian director Irena leaves her husband Brane without disclosing the reasons to her family. a clear idea that fraternal dispute, which leads to the final showdown. Živojin Pavlović were Polsestra, expected delivery: Since she does not have the money to rent an apartment, her father, who lives with I should make a the most important summer 2019, fiction, DCP 2K, his second wife and daughter Neža, steps in. Since Neža has to move to Ljubljana in DAMJAN KOZOLE ENT film about him. directed by Metod Pevec written by Metod Pevec, Ivo Trajkov dop – i.e. the Slovenian fea- 2.39 : 1 / 16 : 9, c, approx. 90 min order to finish her studies, the two half-sisters, who barely know each other, end up (1964) is an award-win- by Metod Pevec Frankly, he was Marko Brdar, ZFS editor Jelena Maksimović music Mate Matišić sound ture filmFarewell in the sharing a small flat. Their communication is limited to complaints, cursing, and short ning Slovenian filmmak- enveloped in the designers Atanas Georgiev, Julij Zornik, Branko Đorđević production Next War (1981). Pevec VERTIGO conversations about veganism and psoriasis. Both are full of contradictions and frus- er whose directing cred- Vse je drugače, expected deliv- scent of alcohol designer Marco Juratovec costume designer Katja Hrobat make-up has also written several Danijel Hočevar trations, but they are much more alike than they are willing to admit. its include nine fiction ery: spring 2019, fiction, DCP 2K, and barroom Mojca Gorogranc Petrushevska production manager Matija Kozamernik novels and a collection [email protected] feature films. His films 1.66 : 1 / 16 : 9, c, 98 min stories. Even _____ cast Janez Škof, Valter Dragan, Katarina Čas, Mojca Partljič, Anja of short stories. www.vertigo.si have received several before I could Novak, Silva Čušin, Mojca Ribič, Uroš Smolej, Primož Pirnat, Peter awards and nomina- VERTIGO express any Musevski, Maja Sever, Emil Cerar, Davor Janjić, Radko Polič _____ filmography (from 2010) tions: Spare Parts (2003) Danijel Hočevar doubts, he started producer Danijel Hočevar production Vertigo co-producers Ivan Maloča Everything is Different (2019), was nominated for the [email protected] talking about & Maja Vukić, Svetozar Ristevski & Kornelija Ristovska Markovska, Igor fiction; Home (2015), documenta- Golden Bear at Berlinale www.vertigo.si his brother, his Kecman & Jelena Mitrović co-production RTV Slovenia, Interfilm, Small ry; Tango Abrazos / Practicing and ranked by Sight & father, his love, Moves Films, Backroom Production in collaboration with FS Viba film Embrace (2012), fiction;Alexan - “Half-Sister is a film about Sound among ten most music, as well co-funding Slovenian Film Centre, Eurimages, Croatian AV Centre, drians (2011), documentary; Good people who do not know important films of the as himself. He Macedonian Film Agency, Film Center Serbia world sales Soul Food Night, Missy (2011), fiction how to communicate or New Europe in 2008; seduced me into show any sympathy.” the globally-released believing him and Slovenian Girl (2009) writing down his – which premiered in stories…” 2009 at Toronto, Pusan and Sarajevo IFF – was screened at more than a hundred film festivals around the world and sold to more than 40 ter- directed by Damjan Kozole written by Damjan Kozole, Urša Menart, Ognjen Sviličić dop Miladin ritories; while Nightlife Čolaković editors Atanas Georgiev, Jurij Moškon sound designers Julij Zornik, Igor Popovski production has received the Crystal designer Neža Zinajić costume designer Katja Hrobat make-up Mojca Gorogranc Petrushevska Globe for Best Director production manager Matija Kozamernik _____ cast Urša Menart, Liza Marija Grašič, Peter Musevski, Jurij at the Karlovy Vary IFF. Drevenšek, Damjana Černe, Anja Novak, Labina Mitevska, Mojca Fatur, Urška Hlebec, Blaž Valič, Tjaša Kozole’s short docu- Hrovat, Marjuta Slamič, Mateja Pucko, Maruša Majer, Iztok Jug Drabik _____ producer Danijel Hočevar mentary Borders (2016) production co-producers , , co-production FICTION Vertigo Labina Mitevska Jelena Mitrović Boris T. Matić Sisters has been screened and and Brother Mitevski, Film House Baš Čelik, Propeler Film, RTV Slovenia in collaboration with FS Viba has received awards at film co-funding Slovenian Film Centre, Macedonian Film Agency, Film Centre Serbia, Creative Europe - many international film

MEDIA, Eurimages Co-production Development Award festivals. FICTION

8 Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY 9 “I am interested in what we are like when we are alone, when no one is watching. When our guards, shields are down. When silence, loneliness, sometimes fear, anger, and sometimes love shines through. With every visit, Viktorija and Damjan bring us closer and closer MATEJ NAHTIGAL to the Truth.” graduated in graphic and media technology from the University of Ljubljana, and finished the first year of his MA “The dark heart A genre crime drama, drawing its story and aes- postgraduate course of the 1970s thetics from the 1970s neo-noir and conspiracy thrillers. in photography at the CORPO- film noir is still It follows a police investigator who decides to investigate University of Sarajevo. beating – it has the background of a business deal in which the authorities After directing the first simply moved to want to evict and demolish a part of the city with the help Slovenian film noir, a new City. The of a powerful corporation and build a new construction Case: Osterberg (2015), Viktorija is homeless, and she likes to explore abandoned buildings. She RATION City controlled by complex there. The film talks about the will and strength Matej is ready to release keeps visiting her husband in prison, while striving to quit using drugs and find a NINA BLAŽIN by Matej Nahtigal the Corporation. of the individual in the fight against institutions, and about his second fiction place she could call home: somewhere with running water, a toilet, and a warm bed. (1980) graduated in The City where the decisions taken behind the scenes. It questions just how feature. HOW After prison, Viktorija and her husband’s plans are big: to find an apartment, jobs, film and TV directing Korporacija, expected delivery: all forms of much we can influence the course of history. and to get their lives in order. Will they make it? from the AGRFT. She October 2019, fiction, DCP, 2.39 : 1, resistance are The film focuses on an aspiration we all share: to be loved and to belong somewhere, has attended many c. 5.1, 92 min nothing more than directed by Matej Nahtigal written by Zoran Benčič dop J-P Passi editor MUCH with someone. But first we have to love ourselves. film workshops: Berlin a curiosity. The Vlado Gojum sound designer Boštjan Kačičnik production designer Awards: FSF 2018 – Best editing, Best documentary. Talent Campus 2006, LIGNIT FILM roles have been Tina Merica costume designer Sanja Grcić dit Noel Šimenc make-up IDFAcademy 2011, Tomi Matič assigned a long Alenka Nahtigal _____ cast Uroš Furst, Primož Vrhovec, Jana Zupančič, written & directed by Nina Blažin dop Darko Herič, ZFS editor Zlatjan Čučkov sound designer Simon Documentary in Eu- [email protected] time ago, and Lejla Korać, Ivo Barišič, Niko Goršič, Jelena Perčin, Marinko Prga, Borut DO YOU Penšek colour grading Iridium Film _____ featuring Viktorija Rozman Bitenc, Damjan Bitenc _____ rope 2011, NISI MASA: www.lignitfilm.si one’s only choice Veselko, Niko Goršič _____ producer Tomi Matič production Lignit film production Sever & Sever producer Jani Sever executive producer Nina Jeglič co-funding Slovenian ESP 2012, ESODOC is how one wants co-production Jaako dobra produkcija, Zvokarna, MB Grip co-funding Film Centre 2013, Aristoteles Work- to die. Business Slovenian Film Centre, FS Viba film LOVE shop Association 2014, as usual.“ Sources 2 2017, Script Circle 2017, Script & Pitch 2017 Interfilm- YOUR- Berlin. As a director, she is interested in atmospheres, raw emo- SELF? tions. Life itself is full of details; we just have to by Nina Blažin look closely. How Much Koliko se ljubiš?, 2018, Do You Love Yourself? documentary, DCP, 2.39 : 1, c, is her documentary 82 min feature debut.

SEVER & SEVER Nina Jeglič [email protected] www.seversever.com FICTION DOCUMENTARY

10 Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY 11 SING ME That Black Guitar, Instead of Whom the Flowers Bloom, Dizzy from the Height In his documentaries, are only a few songs by Vlado Kreslin that have become folk tunes, and Vlado himself When Cristina has become a cult person for his audiences – though not by means of self-promotion MIRAN ZUPANIČ is released from strategies, but because of his genuine charisma and suggestive music expression. (1961) focuses on the DAUGH- prison, she gets A SONG On the one hand, the documentary filmSing Me a Song provides an insight into the fates of individuals in a chance at a by Miran Zupanič key stages of the development of Vlado’s authentic artistic expression; while, on the crucial moments new life. But can the other hand, it represents an outline of the cultural context in which Vlado has of the 20th century. For TER OF she overcome Poj mi pesem, 2018, been creating forover forty years. It is a film about music and about people who love example, Run for Your her violent documentary, DCP, 1.85 : 1, c, 5.1, music. Life (1990) was the first history and 107 min Sing Me a Song premiered in November at the LIFFe - Ljubljana IFF. Slovenian documentary live in a loving about the political pris- CAMOR- relationship with ARSMEDIA written & directed by Miran Zupanič dop Max Sušnik editors Jaka Kovačič, Miran Zupanič sound oners on the Goli otok her nearest and The former Camorra assassin Cristina Pinto is Boštjan Ikovic designer Boštjan Kačičnik _____ featuring Vlado Kreslin, Eva Strmljan Kreslin, Katarina Kreslin, Milan island, the harshest dearest? Is she struggling with the challenges of a “normal” life after her [email protected] Kreslin, Vera Pergar, Blaž Ogorevc, Jure Potokar, Anton Avbelj, Marjan Bokan, Vojko Kokot, Mali bogovi, prison of the commu- RA capable of love? release from the Italian prisons. Soon after her release, her www.arsmedia.si Beltinška banda _____ producer Boštjan Ikovic production Arsmedia co-production Depo, MB Grip, nist Yugoslavia. The partner Raffaele, twenty years older than her, is diagnosed Zvokarna, Iridium film, Kreslin publishing house co-funding Slovenian Film Centre, FS Viba film Eyes of Bosnia (1992) by Siniša Gačić with lung cancer. Cristina seeks refuge with her 28-year-old was shot in Bosnia and Hči Comorre, 2019, daughter Ellena. She tries to bridge a 24-year-long void in Herzegovina during documentary, DCP, 16 : 9, c, their relationship. At the age of 46, she tries to re-establish the bloody war between 85 min herself as a lover, mother, and grandmother. the former Yugoslav Awards: Sarajevo FF 2018 – Docu Rough Cut Boutiqe, HBO nations. Children from STUDIO MAJ Europe Award 2018 Petriček Hill (2007) is Dunja Klemenc based on the interviews [email protected] directed by & dop Siniša Gačić written by Anka Pirš editor Andrej Nagode SINIŠA GAČIĆ with the descendants [email protected] _____ featuring Cristina Pinto, Raffaele Mirabella, Ellena Pinto _____ (1980) has graduat- of the suspected or www.studiomaj.si producer Dunja Klemenc production Studio Maj co-production Ballandi ed in film and TV actual Nazi collabora- Arts, Zuhr co-funding Slovenian Film Centre editing and finished his “Draw the sky and the birds tors whom the Yugoslav postgraduate studies of will come flying.” authorities have secretly direction, both at the executed after WW II AGRFT. As a journalist and imprisoned their and director, he has children in the Petriček collaborated with RTV camp. My Friend Mujo Slovenia since 1999. (2012) is a portrait of He has shot several TV the Herzegovinian documentaries, while peasant Mujo Turajlić, his first documentary who has lost both of his feature A Fight For arms to a landmine, (2014) received the Best but whose unwavering Film Award at the FSF. strength and will to live allows him to keep filmography (documentary cultivating his land and from 2010) take care of his family. Daughter of Camorra (2019); Miran Zupanič also Growing Up (2017, with Dominik shoots fiction films, Mencej); A Fight For (2014) and he has also lectured

DOCUMENTARY film direction at the AGRFT since 1997.

DOCUMENTARY

12 Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY 13 “My statement about this film is absolutely unnecessary and does not benefit anyone or anything. When the film is finished, it will be a statement in itself… And it will also include my own statement about the world that I live in.”

MAN Genetic code forces people to reproduce. Infants have no choice: they become a part of this world without any will of their own, and as completely helpless beings they are subjected to training in the civilisational norms… Is anything else WITH possible at all? written & directed by Ema Kugler dop Lev Predan Kowarski, ZFS music Robert Jiša music performed EMA KUGLER by RTV Slovenian Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Marek Štryncl, choirs: Czech Boys Choir Boni (1955) is a multi- THE Pueri, Lucky Voice Band, organ: Polona Gantar, duduk: Primož Fleischman sound designer Boštjan THE disciplinary artist “The story of The killing of a young woman, Gjyste, becomes the Kačičnik production & costume designer Ema Kugler make-up Ema Kugler, Anita Ferčak hairdresser with a unique and The Business setting for a Balkan drama revolving around pride, power, Meta Podkrajšek digital postproduction NuFrame _____ cast Loup Abramovici, Marko Mandić, Matija distinctive authori- BUSI- of Revenge is a and family secrets. Gjyste’s killer is convicted and impris- Vastl, Jure Henigman, Nataša Matjašec-Rošker, Nataša Živkovič, Maj Gruden _____ producer Ema al expression. Her psychological oned, yet the victim’s father is bound to the remnants of an SHAD- Kugler production Zank co-production VPK, NuFrame, Zvokarna, MB Grip, Big Heart Studio co-funding characteristic visual drama, set ancient Albanian tradition – blood feud. He must either for- Slovenian Film Centre, FS Viba film language, marked by NESS in Albanian give his daughter’s death – or slay a member of the killer’s extreme precision and Highlands, shot in family. OW the highest aesthetic the Observational A group of local men mediate, led by a former secret service standards, tells stories Cinema style, agent from the capital. Under the guise of a ritual, they pres- by Ema Kugler of the depths pertaining OF RE- over the course of sure the father to forgive in order to prevent a catastrophe. MARIJA ZIDAR Človek s senco, expected to the human spirit and the past several The mediators, however, may also benefit from the tragedy. (1976), a former delivery: spring 2019, roots them in universal years.” journalist of the main experimental, DCP, 2.35 : 1, c, themes, intertwined VENGE written & directed by Marija Zidar dop Latif Hasolli editors Mariana Slovenian daily Delo, 100 min with a strong symbolic Kozakova, Jurij Moškon sound designers Julij Zornik, Ognjen Popić _____ has previously written dimension. She has by Marija Zidar producer Danijel Hočevar production Vertigo co-producers Latif Hasolli, four medium-length ZANK received numerous Krvno maščevanje, expected Jelena Mitrović, Drita Llolla co-production RTV Slovenia, Dera Film, Film documentaries for TV Ema Kugler awards in Slovenia as delivery: beginning of 2020, House Baš Čelik, Seagull Entertainment in collaboration with FS Viba Slovenia, as well as [email protected] well as abroad. documentary, DCP 2K, 1.85 : 1 / film co-funding Slovenian Film Centre, Kosovo Cinematography Centre, directed one: Identity www.ema-kugler.si 16 : 9, c Film Centre Serbia, Film Centre Montenegro, Creative Europe – MEDIA Contrabandits (2015). www.ema-kugler.si

VERTIGO Danijel Hočevar [email protected] www.vertigo.si DOCUMENTARY EXPERIMENTAL

14 Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY 15 young boys, at the time the citizens of a single, European cinemas, as well as at numerous IFFs, while Tomaž finally experiences a vision: he lice arrive and an investigation begins. It turns common state? What is nowadays going on where they have also received several awards. realises – for the first time in his life – that God out that Boris does not have enemies or any LET HIM BE A with the military facilities on the island of Vis, is love. ONCE WERE HUMANS disputes with anyone. There are no suspects – which, at the time, the Army called “the for- PETRA PAN FILM • PETRA SELIŠKAR • [email protected] • Dominik Mencej (1987) has always been Nekoč so bili ljudje, fiction Boris appears to be a person completely unlikely tress of the Adriatic”? WWW.PETRAPAN.COM passionate about film. In 2008 he shot a few shorts Shooting date: March 2019 to be assassinated. It seems that the event must BASKETBALL PLAYER 2 Igor Šterk (1968), director, screenwriter, and and was accepted to the AGRFT, where he gradu- have been a coincidence of some sort, so the Košarkar naj bo 2, fiction producer. His first fiction featureExpress, Express ated in film and TV directing. directed by Goran Vojnović police stop investigating after a while. Expected delivery: end of 2019 has won 15 international awards, including two filmography (from 2010) feature Growing up production Arsmedia ___ co-production Eurofilm (hr), Boris cannot come to terms with this so he Grand Prix and three audience awards. Come ANTIGONE (2017, with Siniša Gačić); short The Springtime Apapaja (it) ___ co-funding Slovenian Film Centre, FS Viba starts investigating on his own. While he looks directed by Boris Bezić Along, his latest fiction feature so far, premiered at Antigona, documentary Sleep (2014), Garbage Day (2011) film for potential perpetrators, Boris discovers that production Gustav film ___ co-production RTV Slovenia, the Cinekid Amsterdam in 2016. Shooting date: end of 2018 TheStaragara production house strives to he is hated by more people than he could ever MB Grip, Studio Ritem, Pecl, Unicasting ___ co-funding AAC production was established in 1994 and establish a network of long-term co-productions, Leo is an Italian who lives in Slovenia. have imagined, and that his own perceptions of Slovenian Film Centre has, to date, produced feature and short films. directed by Jani Sever not based exclusively on the short-term interests, Vučko is a Bosnian who has arrived to Slove- his own life are merely illusions. Fall Generation will be the first documentary production Sever & Sever ___ co-funding Slovenian Film but rather on the common artistic affinity. During nia as a child refugee. Leo stays in Slovenia, The filmInventory is a drama with elements of a The sequel of the blockbuster Let Him produced by this company, owned by the direc- Centre, RTV Slovenia the last years it produced two co-productions with hoping that he, his ex-girlfriend Anita, and their thriller and black comedy, set in contemporary Be a Basketball Player continues to follow tor Igor Šterk. This documentary, which Šterk is Italy (Zoran – My Nephew the Idiot and Dancing son Valter can get back together and become middle-class surroundings in Slovenia. the witty story of a delightfully special boy directing, is of personal nature, as he belonged to An ancient heroine, global decision-mak- with Maria; both premiered at the Venice IFF). Our a family again. Vučko does not want to leave Darko Sinko (1979) graduated from the Ranta and his amazing friends. The second this fall generation of 1987 as well. ers, anonymous people, and a philosopher in most recent fiction featureIvan is an international Slovenia and go to Sweden to join his brother, Faculty of Social Sciences and the AGRFT, both in film takes place in a pre-holiday atmosphere, the sphere of ethical decisions. co-production, made with the support of Eurimages. as he does not want to feel like a refugee again. Ljubljana. He has co-directed and produced sev- interrupted by unexpected school obligations, AAC PRODUCTION • PETRA VIDMAR • [email protected] The documentary combines “the three endings However, when the bank refuses to give them a eral documentaries. His short filmSchoolmates basketball team snags, and life-altering love of Antigone” from Slavoj Žižek’s play Antigone, STARAGARA • MIHA ČERNIČ • [email protected] • mortgage for a restaurant refurbishment, Leo (2014) received the Best Screenplay Award at the problems. Counting down their last days of with speeches of global political leaders and WWW.STARAGARA.COM and Vučko are forced to accept an offer from 2015 FSF. Inventory is his first fiction feature. primary school, the pupils are reminded of the economic decision-makers, protests, politi- an imposter Gianni. They must steal Gianni’s filmography (documentary from 2010) Little forthcoming (and dreaded) final exam, Ranta’s cal propaganda, etc., as well as a discussion truck so that Gianni can get money from the Houses (2014, with Matjaž Ivanišin); Revolt (2013); love relationship is at stake, while he and his THE BODY with the author. By enacting Žižek’ Antigone, insurance. However, instead of stealing Gianni’s This Is Where I Live (2011). teammates are simultaneously preparing for Telo, documentary the film observes the divisions in the global truck, Leo and Vučko mistakenly steal a truck TheDecember production house was estab- the biggest basketball game of their life. This Shooting date: time-lapse, next shooting March 2019 political arena, which are represented with the NOCTURNAL QUARTET full of refugees. The refugee Vučko and the lished in December 2013 by Vlado Bulajić and Lija is a film full of youthful joyousness and relaxed choices of Antigone, Creon, and Chorus. Nočni kvartet, fiction migrant Leo thus inadvertently hold the destiny Pogačnik, both with many years of experience humour, with new challenges and new char- written & directed by Petra Seliškar & Brand Ferro Should our highest priority be to respect the Shooting date: March 2019 of the miserable refugees in their hands. At first in the film industry and both born in Decem- acters trying to derail the perfect finale. It is production Petra Pan Film ___ potential co-production state law; should we follow a system of moral it seems that they care for these people, but ber 1977. Vlado Bulajić has worked as assistant a journey of teenage vivaciousness depicted Wake Up Films (rs), Jana Cisar filmproduktion (de), PPFP law; or is there some other choice? written & directed by Vinko Möderndorfer day by day there is less and less humanity left director or production manager of feature films with wit, affection, and understanding of all (mk) ___ co-funding Slovenian Film Centre, Macedonian Jani Sever (1963), a former journalist and production Forum Ljubljana ___ co-production Kinorama in either of the men. and commercials. He is a 2012 EAVE Producers the difficulties and flaws that teens normally Film Agency, IDA editor-in-chief (1996 – 2006) of the leading Slove- (hr), Delirium (rs), Sektor film (mk) ___ co-funding Vojnović wrote the screenplay together with workshop graduate and a member of the Directors experience while growing up. nian political weekly Mladina, founded the first Slovenian Film Centre, Film Center Serbia Tomasso Santi. Guild of Slovenia and the Association of Sloveni- Boris Bezić (1986), director, screenwriter, The Body is a poetic story about one wom- multimedia news and entertainment portal Vest The director and (screen)writer Goran Vo- an Film Producers. Lija Pogačnik’s filmmaking cameraman. He has received the Kodak Award an’s struggle to overcome an incredibly rare (2006) and his own production company Sever An encounter between two married couples jnović (1980) graduated in film and TV directing career has been shorter: she had been the assistant for Best Student Film at the FSF and the students’ autoimmune disease – a glimpse at her life with & Sever in 2011. He works as producer, director, that apparently have nothing in common. The from the AGRFT. As a writer, he has won the producer on one feature and a single short film be- Prešeren Award for his fiction shortThe Wind a DNA chain full of mistakes that are almost and screenwriter. He has produced two fiction fea- events of a single rainy night bring them to- highest Slovenian literature award Kresnik three fore co-founding the December production house. Inside Me (2011). Let Him Be a Basketball Player impossible to fix. Film, shot over a period of 15 tures, more than ten documentaries, five shorts, gether fatally. times and received the prestigious Prešeren’s The company’s main goal is to produce fiction 2 is his first fiction feature. years, is inspired by a journey from Slovenia to and a web series. He has directed Status Zero, Vinko Möderndorfer (1958) has graduated in Fund Award. As a director, Vojnović has made a films and documentaries by the promising young Gustav film is a production company that Macedonia that Urška made to visit her friends a documentary about unemployed youth; Pero theatre directing and works as a writer and direc- number of short and two feature films.Chefurs directors and screenwriters. has established itself with author-driven projects, in the summer of 2004. After this trip, Urška’s Lovšin – You Can, a documentary about the first tor. He has published seventy books, directed over Raus! (2013) has won the Best Director Award at screened at many film festivals (Venice, Cannes, immune system collapsed for the first time. East European punk star; and two short films. a hundred theatre and opera performances, and the Alexandria FF and the Best Screenplay Award DECEMBER • VLADO BULAJIČ • [email protected] etc.). In addition, Gustav film has also produced Eleven years later, she travels to the same loca- has received more than forty awards for his work. at the SEE FF, while Piran Pirano (2010) has won more youth-friendly films, includingLet Him Be tion in order to face the place where the story SEVER & SEVER • NINA JEGLIČ • [email protected] • Möderndorfer’s filmography includes three the Best Production Award at the SEE FF and the a Basketball Player, which had the highest cinema of her ongoing illness began. The nature resort WWW.SEVERSEVER.COM features – Inferno (2014, premiered in Busan); Dialogue Prize for intercultural communication at attendance in Slovenia in 2017. In 2019, the Gustav of Lake Prespa on the border between Mace- Landscape No.2 (2008, Venice); Suburbs (2004, the Cottbus FF. film production house is releasing two films and donia, Albania, and Greece is still untouched, Venice) – and sixteen TV works. His features have TheArsmedia production house is one of the GANJA WILL SET YOU putting in to production one important project while Urška’s body has changed completely. received 23 international and national awards, nu- first independent production companies in Slove- (see Orchestra). When Urška faces the lake, her memories flash merous nominations, and have been presented in nia. With extensive experience and excellent rep- back over the 38 years of her life. In the archive RIDERS Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Montreal, Tallin, Warsaw, utation, it is an active partner of the international FREE GUSTAV FILM • FRENK CELARC • [email protected] footage from 1995, she is a rebellious teenage Jezdeca, fiction Edinburgh, etc. filmmaking network. More info on the company Konoplja osvobaja, documentary punk from the former Yugoslavia and a beautiful Shooting date: February 2019 TheForum Ljubljana production company website. Shooting date: June 2019 fashion model … was founded in 1994 by the producer Eva Rohr- The film makes you reflect about what is hap- directed by Dominik Mencej man, who is also its managing director. ARSMEDIA • BOŠTJAN IKOVIC • [email protected] • written & directed by Miha Čelar pening within our own bodies. While we are in production Staragara ___ co-production Antitalent (hr), filmography The Reaper by Zvonimir Jurić (2014, WWW.ARSMEDIA.SI production Astral film ___ co-production Quasar FALL GENERATION perfect control of our minds, our bodies could Novi film (ba), Sense Production (rs) ___ co-funding Toronto); Inferno by Vinko Möderndorfer (2014, Multimedia (it), Wolfgang & Dolly (hr), Wake Up Films (rs), Septembrska klasa, documentary take a U-turn. Slovenian Film Centre, Film Center Serbia, Croatian Busan); The Parade by Srdjan Dragovjević (2011, Langbein & Partner (au) ___ co-funding Slovenian Film Expected delivery: beginning of 2020 Director, writer and producer Petra Seliškar AV Centre, Film Fund Sarajevo, ReAct, RTV Slovenia, Berlinale); Landscape No.2 by Vinko Möderndor- Centre and DOP & producer Brand Ferro founded their Creative Europe – MEDIA developed with the support of fer (2008, Venice); Suburbs by Vinko Möderndorf- written & directed by Igor Šterk own production house in 2003. With her rich First Film First er (2004, Venice). INVENTORY A creative documentary essay about the production AAC production ___ co-production RTV experience and talent Petra has flourished as a Inventura, fiction protagonist Janko Pirc and his struggle for the Slovenia, Teleking, Studio 100, Gustav film ___ co-funding filmmaker with a profound insight, sensibility, Tomaž and Anton, best friends from a FORUM LJUBLJANA • EVA ROHRMAN • Shooting date: May 2019 right to grow and use cannabis. Janko’s second Slovenian Film Centre, FS Viba film strong narrative force and innovative approach. small village, are in their mid-twenties. After [email protected] • WWW.FILMINFERNO.SI • child has diabetes, while his wife has multi- filmography (documentary) My World Is watching Easy Rider they decide to transform WWW.POKRAJINA-ST2.ORG • WWW.PREDMESTJE.ORG written & directed by Darko Sinko ple sclerosis. He started an illegal treatment A documentary portrait of the generation Upside Down (2015), Mother Europe (2013), The their mopeds into chopper-like bikes and go production December ___ co-production This and That programme using THC and CBD, components of the former Yugoslav Army conscripts who, in Grandmothers of Revolution (2006) on a journey, so that Anton can impress his (sr), Hulahop (hr), RTV Slovenia ___ co-funding Slovenian of cannabis, and has been caught and arrested September 1987, began their one-year military ThePetra Pan Film production house focuses girlfriend who studies in the capital and who Film Centre, Creative Europe - MEDIA, ReAct for the possession of eight cannabis plants. He service on Vis, an island in the Adriatic Sea, at on creative documentaries and art house fiction has not written to him in months. Tomaž, on was tried at a district court and faced ten years IN PRODUCTION the time strictly forbidden for foreigners… films for the international market. All of its films the other hand, seeks religious answers to his Boris Zupančič is – as it is customary to say in prison. After he had also been convicted at How do they see these times from more than are international co-productions with the EU and visions and hopes that faith will guide him. – an ordinary man. One day after supper, how- the regional court, he appealed to the Supreme thirty years ago today? What has happened Balkan countries, and they have been screened on Anton’s plan does not work, but in the end he ever, somebody fires a shot at him through the Court and won his legal battle. In 2017, Janko with the carefree friendships and lives of these many television stations and VOD platforms, in finds his true calling as a traveller of the world, window while he is reading in his room. The po- opened the first European shop with cannabis IN PRODUCTION

16 Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY 17 products containing the full quantity of THC filmography (from 2010) I Act, I Am (2018), Adria the internet. Because of all the other aspects in Slovenia. After his cathartic experience, he Blues (2013) of her life that are not going great, quitting bad named his shop GANJA WILL SET YOU FREE. Founded in 2005, Filmostovje is devoted to habits is not easy. She has a creative block, her While following the main character, the story conceiving, producing, and promoting documen- romantic affair with her mentor is starting to will also reveal the contradictory and contro- tary and low budget fiction films. The subjects get on her nerves, and her best friend is moving versial legal and social situation regarding range from human rights and environmental to Berlin in search of better financial securi- cannabis in the region. concern to drama and comedy. Other activities ty. Eva’s roommate Blaž is the bright beacon The director, writer and producerMiha Čelar include script doctoring, rewrites, and drama- and support in her life, but neither he nor she (1970) focuses on creative, cross-media documen- turgy for feature films, with a variety of clients realise that they are probably in love. In order GOD tary films with social topics. He is the founder of in Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, to pay her bills, Eva works in a bookshop that Astral film, a small Slovenian production house, Greece, and the USA. sells self-help books, but her payments are working on the development, (co-)production and constantly late and she eventually gets fired EXISTS, distribution of cinematographic and television FILMOSTOVJE • NINA ROBNIK • [email protected] • because of her attitude. When she cannot pay projects. WWW.FILMOSTOVJE.COM her rent, she gets thrown out of the apartment. filmography (documentary from 2010) After she burns all the bridges, Eva has no HER iIsland (2018), Codelli (2017), Irene, Goodnight other choice but to move back home with her (2017), Tatjana in Motherland (2015), Re-Invent- parents. In the small Macedonian town of Štip, every Janu- modern woman. Teona’s next fiction feature,When the Day Had ing the Wheel (2015), A Beautiful Mind (2014) Tijana Zinajić (1973), directress and actress. NAME IS ary the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and No Name, premiered at the 2017 Berlin IFF (Panorama Special); ORCHESTRA Likes music, humour, and mathematics. Eva is her hundreds of men dive in after it. Good fortune and prosperi- while her latest film,God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya, will ASTRAL FILM • MIHA ČELAR • [email protected] Orkester, fiction first feature. ty are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. premiere in the Official Competition of the Berlin IFF in 2019. Shooting date: autumn 2019 TheDecember production house: see PETRUNYA This time, Petrunija dives into the water on a whim and Inventory manages to grab the cross first. Her competitors are fu- directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska written by Elma Tataragić, Teona written & directed by Matevž Luzar by Teona Strugar Mitevska rious: how dare a woman take part in their ritual? All hell Strugar Mitevska dop Virginie Saint-Martin editor Marie-Hélène Dozo production Gustav film ___ co-funding Slovenian Film Bog obstaja, ime ji je Petrunija, breaks loose, but Petrunija holds her ground. She has won music Olivier Samouillan sound designers Ingrid Simon, Thomas Gauder, SANREMO Centre, FS Viba film 2019, fiction, DCP 2K, 2.39 : 1 / 16 : her cross and will not give it up. Hrvoje Petek production designer Vuk Mitevski costume designer Sanremo, fiction 9, c, 5.1, 100 min World premiere date: Berlinale Competition, 10 February, Monika Lorber make-up Mojca Gorogranc Petrushevska casting director Shooting dates: September 2019 A miners’ wind orchestra from Slove- 2019 Kirijana A. Nikoloska _____ cast Zorica Nusheva, Labina Mitevska, Simeon nia goes on tour to a small Austrian town to VERTIGO Moni Damevski, Suad Begovski Stefan Vujisić, Violeta Shapkovska, directed by Miroslav Mandić perform at the Wind Orchestra Festival in Danijel Hočevar Teona Strugar Mitevska’s (1974, mk) debut as a short film di- Xhevdet Jashari, Andrijana Kolevska _____ producer Labina Mitevska production Filmostovje ___ co-production RTV Slovenia, the parade section. We follow five different [email protected] rector was Veta in 2001, followed by How I Killed a Saint (2004, production Sisters and Brother Mitevski (mk) co-producers Danijel Quasarmultimedia (it) ___ co-funding Slovenian Film stories – five different perspectives during the www.vertigo.si Rotterdam IFF, Tiger Awards Competition) as her first fiction Hočevar, Sebastien Delloye, Zdenka Gold, Marie Dubas, Elie Mierovitz Centre, FS Viba film orchestra’s tour. The undercurrent of this film is feature. Her next film,I Am from Titov Veles, received Special co-production Vertigo, Entre Chien et Loup, Spiritus Movens, Deuxième that everyone perceives certain people as their Jury Prize at the 2007 Sarajevo FF and was selected for the 2007 Ligne Films, EZ Films in collaboration with FS Viba film co-funding Bruno (75) wanders through a village in inferior, immigrant, alien, refugee… That we all Toronto IFF (Discovery Section), the 2008 Berlin IFF (Panora- Slovenian Film Centre, Macedonian Film Agency, Eurimages, Centre search of his home, when suddenly an ambu- feel superior to certain individuals or groups of ma), and the Cannes IFF (ACID). The Woman who Brushed Off de Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Aide lance arrives to get him. This is one of his many people, and that everyone can be a judge in one Her Tears premiered at the 2012 Berlin IFF (Panorama Special). aux cinémas du monde – Centre National de la Cinematographie et de’l escapes from a nursing home. Both he and the situation and then be judged in another. In 2013, Teona directed Tereza and I, a documentary feature Image Animée – Institut Français, Croatian AV Centre, Creative Europe – home resident Duša (65) suffer from dementia. Matevž Luzar (1981), director and screenwrit- about Mother Teresa, her life and work from the perspective of a MEDIA World sales: Pyramide international One morning, Bruno joins Duša at breakfast, er, graduated from film school with the acclaimed and a mutual affection is obvious. However, short film Wolfy (Vučko), which was nominated when Duša sings at a nursing home event, Bru- for an Honorary Foreign Award at the 35th Annual no wonders who the lady with the nice voice is. Student Academy Awards competition. In addi- They meet at group therapy and flirt again. She tion, it won the Grand Prix at the 30th Montpellier is making a collage using photos of waterfalls. IF of Mediterranean Film, and was selected for the He craves to visit his wife and dog, but during Leopards of Tomorrow Award for Best Newcomer his daughter’s visit, we learn that they are both official competition at the Locarno IFF. The script dead. When the elderly visit a vineyard, Bruno for Luzar’s first and so far only fiction feature and Duša meet again and have a quarrel during Good to Go (2012) was developed at the Creative the harvest. Upon returning to the home, Bruno Europe - MEDIA-supported workshop Four Cor- cannot find his room. He opens Duša’s door and ners. lies down next to her. They wake up and argue, http://matevzluzar.com each sure that the other one is in the wrong Gustav film: see Let Him Be a Basketball bed. Yet again, they like each other and agree to Player 2 meet for breakfast. Dressed up, Duša waits for Bruno in vain. Bruno attends group activities, GUSTAV FILM • PETRA VIDMAR • [email protected] but Duša is not there. He wanders aimlessly, and suddenly gets invited to Duša’s funeral. He declines, claiming he doesn’t know who that woman was. Feeling inexplicable sadness, STITCHES Combining the elements of a thriller and melo- Bruno escapes once again. After a long walk EVA [WORKING TITLE] drama, the film focuses on the story of newborn babies through a forest, he comes across a waterfall Eva, fiction by Miroslav Terzić abducted from hospitals, which has been a hot social issue and stares at it. Principal photography: October 2019 Šivi, 2019, fiction, DCP, 2.35 : 1, in Serbia recently. The story follows a brave woman who Miroslav Mandić was born in Sarajevo, where c, 105 min firmly believes that her newborn baby was stolen from her directed by Miroslav Terzić written by Elma Tataragić dop Damjan he studied comparative literature, and then re- directed by Tijana Zinajić more than 20 years ago, while she was told that her baby Radovanović, SAS editor Milena Z. Petrović music Aleksandra Kovač ceived a MFA in screen writing and directing at the production December ___ co-funding Slovenian Film NORA PRODUCTION GROUP had died. sound designer Julij Zornik production designer Ana Buljan costume Columbia University, New York. Following a brief Centre Darko Vinkl, Alan Vitezič World premiere: Berlinale 2019 – Panorama designer Zora Mojsilović make-up Dušica Vuksanović line producers film career in his native Bosnia and Herzegovina, he [email protected] Uroš Lazić, Ljiljana Ðuričko _____ cast Snežana Bogdanović, Marko emigrated to the Czech Republic during the 1990s Eva is a painter with a degree in fine arts, www.nora-pg.si After his graduation in International law from the University of Baćević, Jovana Stojiljković, Vesna Trivalić, Dragana Varagić, Pavle war, where he directed numerous documentaries. who is about to turn 27 realising that she has Belgrade, Miroslav Terzić (1969, rs) has attended bachelor de- Čemerkić, Jelena Stupljanin, Ksenija Marinković, Rale Milenković, Igor IN PRODUCTION He currently lives and works in Slovenia. His films not done anything with her life yet. When she gree studies at the Belgrade Academy for Film & Drama. As of Benčina, Bojan Žirović _____ producers Uliks Fehmiu, Milena Trobozić have been screened at various IFFs: Locarno, Kar- loses her period, she is determined to quit 2000 he has worked as a freelance artist – director and screen- Garfield production West End Production (rs) co-producers Darko Vinkl, lovy Vary, Berlin, Krakow, Chicago, Santa Barbara, drinking, smoking, and experimenting with writer. His first feature political thriller premiered and received Alen Vitezić, Zdenka Gold, Amra Bakšić Čamo, Adis Ðapo co-production Munich, Sarajevo, Melbourne, Egypt, etc. drugs. Her favourite way of getting advice is on an award at the Sarajevo FF. Nora production group, Spiritus Movens, SCCA/pro.ba co-funding filmography (from 2010) Stitches (2018); Redemption Street Slovenian Film Centre, Croatian AV Centre, Film Center Serbia, Film

(2012) Fund Sarajevo, Eurimages MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION_FICTION

18 Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY 19 Una (9) and an alien robot have 24 hours to find her REC-i) that were screened on the HRT - Croatian National TV tal, while the children have already been taken away by the Grandpa, who has been kidnapped by aliens. This extraordi- between 2013 and 2017. social service and placed with a foster family… MY nary adventure will lead to a new friendship, the rational ro- Nikola learns about a chain of corruption behind the social botic logic will be replaced by emotions, and Una’s selfless directed by Dražen Žarković, Marina Andree Škop written by Pavlica service’s decision: the director sends children to his village, love will save her partly alien family. Bajsić, Branko Ružić inspired by the story My Grandpa is an Alien by Irena placing them with his family and neighbours, and takes a GRANDPA Development awards: BeActive Award for Best Scripted Krčelić story development Dražen Žarković, Darija Kulenović Gudan, percentage of the money received for these children from Content, Prime4Kids and Family Award for Best Children’s Marina Andree Škop dop Sven Pepeonik editor Marina Andree Škop the state. Out of protest and despair, Nikola decides to walk Project. music Stein Berge Svendsen sound designers Daniel Angyal, Luka all the way to Belgrade to the Ministry and look for justice IS AN Grubišić Čabo costumes designer Zorana Meić art direction Petra Kriletić and his right to his children. Dražen Žarković graduated in film and TV directing from make-up Mojca Gorogranc Petruševska concept and character design the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb (hr). He has worked Zdenko Bašić, Michal Struss animatronics team René Krupanský, Kryštof Srdan Golubović (1972, rs), director, Assistant Professor of ALIEN as a freelancer, scriptwriter, and director of numerous fiction Krupanský, Mirek Holub, Tomáš Procházka animation Krsto Jaram, Film Directing. His first fiction featureAbsolute Hundred has and documentary films since 1993. On the international scene, Michal Struss, Antonio Ilic, MagicLab _____ cast Lana Hranjec, Nils Ole participated in the main programmes of over 30 IFFs and won a by Dražen Žarković, Marina his most successful films so far include The Mysterious Boy Oftebro, Petra Polnišova, Ozren Grabarić, Alex Rakoš, Sven Barac, Tonka number of awards. His second fiction featureThe Trap pre- Andree Škop (2013) and Tressette: A Story of an Island, (2006, co-dir. Pavo Kovačić _____ producers Darija Kulenović Gudan, Marina Andree Škop miered at the 2007 Berlinale Forum, has won 21 international Moj dedek je padel z Marsa, Marinković). Marina Andree Škop (1973, ba) graduated production Studio dim (hr) co-producers Ida Weiss, Adolf El Assal, Trine awards, and has been shortlisted for the Academy Award for 2019, fiction, DCP, c, 79 min from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, department of Aadalen Lo, Nicholas Sando, Dagmar Sedlačkova, Tomaš Michalek, Best Foreign Film. Golubović’s third fiction featureCircles has editing. She co-founded the Studio dim production company Marko Škop, Jan Meliš, Perla Ovadija Mosca co-production Senca won over 40 international awards, including the Special Jury SENCA STUDIO in Zagreb, where she works as a director, producer, and head Studio, Wady Films, Filmbin, MasterFilm, Artileria, Fabrika Sarajevo, HRT Prize in the World Dramatic Competition of the Sundance IFF Ida Weiss of development. Her first documentary featureSevdah (2009) co-funding Slovenian Film Centre, Croatian AV Centre, HRT, Creative and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Berlin IFF Forum. [email protected] won the Audience Award at the Sarajevo FF in 2009, along with Europe - MEDIA, Film Fund Luxembourg, Norwegian Film Institute (NFI), www.senca-studio.si three awards at other festivals. As head of development, she has Filminvest3, State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech directed by Srdan Golubović written by Ognjen Sviličić, Srdan Golubović developed three youth TV series (Spacelab, Njam njam, and Cinematography, Slovak AV Fund, Film Fund Sarajevo dop Aleksandar Ilić editor Petar Marković music Mario Schneider sound designers Julij Zornik, Sebastian Schmidt, Erik Mischiew, Bruno Tarriere, FATHER Nikola Medic production designer Goran Joksimović costume designer Ljiljana Petrović make-up Lija Ivanič _____ cast Goran Bogdan, Boris by Srdan Golubović Isaković, Nada Šargin, Milica Janevski, Vahid Džanković, Jovo Maksić, Oče, expected delivery: autumn Nikola Rakočević, Ajla Šantić, Muharem Hamzić, Ljubomir Bandović 2019, fiction, DCP 2K, 1.85 : 1 / _____ producer Jelena Mitrović production Film House Baš Čelik (sr) 16 : 9, c A woman arrives in front of a factory with two small co-producers Danijel Hočevar, Alexander Ris, Čedomir Kolar, Marc children, threatening to set herself on fire if her husband Bashet, Boris T. Matić, Amra Bakšić Čamo co-production Vertigo, Neue VERTIGO Nikola does not receive his remaining salaries and sever- Mediopolis Film, ASAP Films, Propeler Film, SCCA/pro.ba, ZDF arte, Arte Danijel Hočevar ance package. No one reacts, and she indeed sets herself on France Cinema in collaboration with FS Viba film co-funding Slovenian [email protected] fire, her children screaming and crying. Film Centre, Film Center Serbia, Eurimages, MDM, Aide aux cinémas du www.vertigo.si When they let him know what happened, Nikola runs to the monde – Centre National de la Cinematographie et de’l Image Animée – factory and learns that his wife has been taken to the hospi- Institut Français, Croatian AV Centre, Film Fund Sarajevo

An intimate drama of an elderly couple with grown- KALOG- ROSA up children. The protagonists Rosa and Igor live under the same roof without getting in each other’s way, although by Katja Colja they had already lived together for years. Certain events HERO Rosa in Igor, expected delivery: have caused their relationship to fall apart… But other is- end of 2019, fiction, DCP, 2.39 : 1, sues have brought them together again. c, 5.1 DSR, 80 min Starring the internationally renowned actors Boris Cavazza – THE and Lunetta Savino, both of them masters of performance, CASABLANCA as a Slovenian-Italian married couple. Igor Pediček SECOND [email protected] The directress and screenwriterKatja Colja (1969, it) was www.casablanca.si initially employed at the RAI, until she started to work with MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION_FICTION well-known Italian directors. To date she has shot a few shorts LIFE Kaloghero, a confectioner from Sicily, leads a com- oner (2007), Gypsy Fairytale (2009) and Habibi (2011). His and documentaries, while the international co-production Rosa pletely normal life until he witnesses a mafia retaliation. In latest documentary The Last Resort (2017) premiered at the is her first feature film. by Davide Del Degan exchange for testifying against the Assassin, he receives Cannes IFF (Special Screening). Kaloghero – Drugo življenje, a new identity and moves to an Alpine village. Kaloghero directed by Katja Colja written by Katja Colja, Angelo Carbone dop fiction, expected delivery: June tries to start a new life. One day the Assassin shows up in directed by Davide Del Degan written by Andrea Magnani dop Debora Michele Paradisi editor Filippo Maria Montemurro production designer 2019, DCP, c the village. Convinced that the Assassinn is there to kill Vrizzi editor Luigi Mearelli music Luca Ciut sound designer Francesco Alessandra Mura costume designer Tanja Birgmajer make-up Anja him, Kaloghero runs to Slovenia. To his dismay, the Assassin Morosini production designer Niko Novak costume designer Polonca Godina _____ cast Lunetta Savino, Boris Cavazza _____ producers Marica A ATALANTA finds him yet again and a game of cat and mouse begins… Valentinčič _____ cast Vincenzo Nemolato, Giovanni Calcagno, Katarina Stocchi, Daniele di Gennaro production Minimum Fax Media (it) co- Branislav Srdić Čas _____ producer Stefano Basso production Pilgrim Film (it) co- producer Igor Pediček co-production Casablanca co-funding Slovenian [email protected] Davide del Degan (1968, it) started his career in the film producers Branislav Srdić, Andrea Magnani, Gianpaolo Smiragli co- Film Centre, RTV Slovenia, FS Viba film, Pianeta Zero, Ministry of Culture www.aatalanta.si industry in 1997. In 2001, he started writing and directing production A Atalanta co-funding Slovenian Film Centre, Mibact, RAI Italy, FVG AV Fund, FVG Film Commission, RAI, Eurimages

his award-winning short films:Intern 9 (2004), The Pris- Cinema, FVG AV Fund, FVG Film Commission, FS Viba film MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION_FICTION

20 Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY 21 FEATURE FILMS SHORT FILMS HISTORY OF LOVE / CONSEQUENCES / WINTER FLIES / ZIMSKE THE BOX / CELICA BY THE INVISIBLE HAND OF ZGODOVINA LJUBEZNI BY POSLEDICE BY DARKO MUHE BY OLMO OMERZU DUŠAN KASTELIC ADAM SMITH / NEVIDNA SONJA PROSENC ŠTANTE ROKA ADAMA SMITHA BY World premiere: 100 IFFs, 40 awards SLOBODAN MAKSIMOVIĆ World premiere: World premiere: 2018, 2018, Karlovy Awards (selection): 2018, Karlovy Toronto International VaryInternational Best Animated Short 22 IFFs, 10 awards Vary International Film Festival Film Festival, (Cinequest Film & Awards (selection): Film Festival, Award: Art Cinema Official Selection – VR Festival, USA); Grand Prix (One Take Official Selection – (Miskolc IFF, Hungary) Competition Best European FF, Zagreb, Croatia), Competition Awards: Best Direction Independent Film Best Photography Awards: Special Award, Special (ÉCU - The European Award and Best Film Jury Mention - Ecumenical Jury Award Independent Film according to the Extraordinary (53rd KVIFF, Czech Festival, Paris, France); audience (5th Firenze Artistic Achievement Republic) D’SAF Audience Award FilmCorti IFF, Italy), THE (53rd KVIFF, Czech (Animateka, Ljubljana, Best Film Award (3rd Republic); Special Jury Slovenia); Melies Filmaker Day FF Torino, Mention (23rd Split FF, d’Argent and Méliès Italy) DIARY OF A story follows a remarkable rescue campaign that on a deeply personal level, with remarkable openheartedness Croatia) d’Or, nomination for took place in Zagreb during World War II. It is a story about and dignity. Best European Fantasy a woman who, with a handful of her closest associates, filmography (documentary from 2010) The Diary of Diana B. Film (Grossmann DIANA B. saved more than 10,000 children from certain death in the (2019), Family Meals (2012) THE MINER / RUDAR BY PLAYING MEN / PLAYING IVAN / IVAN BY Festival, Ljutomer, infamous camps established by the Ustashe, collaborators HANNA SLAK MEN BY MATJAŽ IVANIŠIN JANEZ BURGER Slovenia); Best by Dana Budisavljević of the Nazi Germany. For a long time, her name was erased directed by Dana Budisavljević written by Dana Budisavljević, Jelena Animated Film Award Dnevnik Diane Budisavljević, from history, as her remarkable deeds were attributed to Paljan dop Jasenko Rasol editor Marko Ferković production designers 2018 Slovenian 40 IFFs, 10 awards 2019 Slovenian according to the jury 2019, docu-fiction, DCP, 88 min others. Her identity remained unknown even to the children Duško Milavec, Ivo Hušnjak costume designer Martina Franić make-up candidate for the Awards (selection): candidate for the and Audience Award whose lives she saved. Her name is Diana Budisavljevic. Dušica Vuksanović _____ featuring Alma Prica, Igor Samobor, Mirjana Academy Award for Special Jury Mention Academy Award for (Kinosmena, Minsk, DECEMBER Karanović, Krešimir Mikić, Ermin Bravo _____ producers Miljenka Čogelja, Best Foreign Language (ZagrebDox, Croatia); Best Foreign Language Belarus) Vlado Bulajič Dana Budisavljević (1975, hr) is a film directress, editor, Olinka Vištica production Hulahop (hr) co-production December, This & Film Artistic Vision Film [email protected] producer, and co-founder of the Hulahop production house. That co-funding Slovenian Film Centre, Croatian AV Centre, Film Center 27 IFFs, 17 awards Award (Docaviv, Tel 13 IFFs, 3 awards During her career, she has gained the reputation as a versatile Serbia, Eurimages, Creative Europe – MEDIA Awards (selection): Aviv, Israel); Best Awards (selected): filmmaker, capable of facing the intimidating social questions Best Actor (36th FAJJR Regional Selection Best Film (Let’s CEE IFF, Teheran); Best Film (Underhill Fest, Vienna, Austria) Photography (13th SEE Montenegro); the Olhar THE RETROSPECTIVE Fest, Los Angeles, Award for Best Film OF FILMS USA); Best Actor (11th (Olhar de Cinema, Orenburg IFF, Russia); Brazil) Best Film (Al Este, BY KARPO GODINA AT Argentina); Audience MOMA, NEW YORK, USA Award (24th Film (OCTOBER) Festival della Lessinia, TH Italy) BY ŠPELA ČADEŽ AT THE 36 BERGAMO FILM MEETINGS, ITALY (MARCH)

WONDER 2018 IN ACHIVEMENTS INTERNATIONAL WHEN YOU’LL MISS ME by Francesco Fei Amanda is 17, and she has lived a troubled life. In described by the critics as one of the most interesting recent MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION_DOCUMENTARY 2019 IS THE SLOVENIAN YEAR OF Sprašujem se, kdaj me boš order to be able to face the world, she makes up a lively and Italian premieres. Since then Fei has focused on art, music, and pogrešala, expected delivery: politically incorrect imaginary girlfriend, who leads Amanda cinematography. He is a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in end of 2019, fiction, DCP, 2K, 2 : 1, through her hardest challenge: to grow up and take control Bergamo and at the IED in Milan. FRANCE ŠTIGLIC c, 5.1 DSR, 95 min of her own life. Amanda’s story is one of courage and bold- ness – adventurous and romantic, ferocious, yet humorous. https://francescofei.com Already at the beginning of his forty-year career, France Štiglic (1919–93) asserted PETRA PAN FILM The film is based onWonder When You’ll Miss Me, the sec- himself as one of the most talented film directors. His short documentaryYouth Builds Petra Seliškar ond novel by Amanda Davis, an American writer who died directed by Francesco Fei written by Francesco Fei, Chiara Barzini, Luca (1946) won the Bronze Lion in Venice; his feature film debutOn Our Own Land (1948)* [email protected] prematurely. It is a road movie about crossing the physical Infascelli dop Brand Ferro editor Claudio Bonafede sound designer qualified for the film festival in Cannes;The Valley of Peace (1965), competed for the www.petrapan.com and mental boundaries, running away from the past, and Vladimir Rakić production designer Matteo Maiocchi costume designers Cannes Palme d’Or for best direction and won the Palm d‘Or for best actor (John searching for a future that is still possible. Gaya Mugnai, Silvia Capra make-up Paola Cristofaroni, Filippo Grandulli Kitzmiller); while The Ninth Circle (1960) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best _____ cast Beatrice Grannò, Claudia Marsicano, Maruša Majer, Dragan Foreign Film. Štiglic has also played a vital role in the beginning and development of the After graduating in History of Cinema,Francesco Fei (it) Mishevski _____ executive producer Simona De Martini production Apnea Slovenian national film production. For a number of years, he would share his knowledge started working in the field of music videos and collaborat- Film (it) co-producers Petra Seliškar, Gabriella Manfre co-production as the professor of film direction at the AGRFT. ed with MTV, directing the series of social documentaries Petra Pan Film, Invisibile Film co-funding Slovenian Film Centre, RAI, *The working title was In the Heart Of Europe entitled True Life. In 2005 he shot his first feature filmOnde , Luce Institute, Lombardia Film Commission, Sardinia Film Commission FILM IN SLOVENIA

22 Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY 23 KEY INFORMATION Subsidy type SI partner Total subsidy in EUR Cinemini Europe Film education Kinodvor 251,844 Population The Film Corner Reloaded – a cultural 2,070,050 approach Film education Otok institute 183,800 GDP per capita AUSTRIA HUNGARY EUR 20,815 Moving Cinema Film education Otok institute 148,562 Murska Sobota * source: Motovila Institute (Creative Europe Desk Slovenia), december 2018 Regulatory body Villach Klagenfurt Lenti Lendava Ministry of Culture Maribor of the Republic of Slovenj Gradec Jesenice Slovenia Ptuj Bled Velenje Average state support for Bovec Production company SI production company Shooting date development & production Varaždin CASH per capita Kranj Celje Rogaška Strangers in Paradise Indiana Production (it) Staragara 9 – 30 September 2018 ITALY 1.8 Škofja Loka REBATE Trbovlje Memories of the Alhambra Chorokbaem media (kr) Nora PG 25 Avgust – 10 September 2018 Admission per capita Udine Ljubljana Satori – awakening in reality Magnolia Mae films (sr) Rosa produkcija 1 Avgust – 30 September 2018 1.14 Idrija Gorizia Nova Gorica Investment in production Brežice Son Dokument (ba) Monoo 28 – 30 October 2018 & development (Slovenian Film Centre, 2017) Shadows over Balkan TOP kanal (sr) Perfo 16 – 18 November 2018 Novo Mesto Zagreb EUR 3,667,000 Postojna Sežana I just Wanted to be a Rock Star Pepito Produzioni (it) Staragara 5 January – 15 March 2019 Investment in production Trieste of independent films Kočevje Motel Acacia Epicmedia Production (ph) Studio Virc 1 – 13 February 2019 Koper (Public Broadcaster RTV Črnomelj CROATIA Slovenia, 2017) Piran Who the Fuck Do You Think You Karlovac EUR 1,821,654 Adriatic Sea Are Slavoj Žižek? Grama film (uk) Arkadena 2019 Average national fiction feature budget EUR 810,993

Title Distributed by Admission Date of release Eurimages Co-production SI production company Director Subsidy in EUR TOP 10 CONTRIBUTION Gaja’s World Gajin svet Karantanija 62.040 27 September Heavens Above Minority Forum Ljubljana Srdjan Dragojević (sr) 320,000 SLOVENIAN OF Let Him Be a Basketball Player Košarkar naj bo* Fivia 9.139 14 September 2017 The Son Minority Monoo Ines Tanović (ba) 125,000 FEATURE IN The Family Družina Demiurg 8.291 11 January INTERNATIONAL Safe Place Minority Staragara Juraj Lerotić (hr) 20,000 THE DOMESTIC Consequences Posledice Demiurg 7.787 10 October 465,000 FUNDS THEATRICAL The Last Ice Hunters Zadnji ledeni lovci Fivia 7.437 14 February A Thousand Hours of Bitterness for a Single Hour of Joy Tisoč ur bridkosti za eno uro veselja Friendly Production 5.040 12 September Creative Europe – MEDIA* Subsidy type Production company Subsidy in EUR DICTRIBUTION Sing Me a Song Poj mi pesem Continental Film 4.081 29 November Half-sister, Hidden People, The First Million Slate funding Vertigo 138,000 2018 Winter Flies Zimske muhe Demiurg 3.536 15 November The Bullet and the Bell Single project development Staragara 50,000 Cankar Cankar Cebram 3.168 13 September Beanie Single project development Senca studio 30,000 Men Don’t Cry Moški ne jočejo 2ifilm 3.019 4 April Inventory Single project development December 30,000 *only admission in 2018 Nun of Your Business Single project development Tramal Films 25,000

Skiing in Scarves Single project development Studio Virc 25,000

Twin Marilyn Single project development Institute for Transmedia Design 25,000

Undir Trenu, Foxtrot, L‘Apparition, Le Title Distributed by Admission Date of release Fidele, Sunset, Twarz, Lazzaro Felice, Cold TOP 10 War, Dogman, Todos lo Sabien, Girl, Border Distribution – selective support Fivia 31,200 FEATURE IN Bohemian Rhapsody Bohemian Rhapsody Blitz 144.160 1 November The Killing of a Sacerd Deer, Utoya 22. juli, Hotel Transilvanija 3: A Monster Vacation Hotel Transilvanija The House that Jack Built Distribution – selective support Cinemania 7,800 SLOVENIA 3: Vsi na morje Continental Film 110.846 2 August Transit, Los Bando Immortale Distribution – selective support Demiurg 7,600 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Mamma mia spet 2018 začenja se Karantanija 114.195 2 August CEE Animation Workshop 2019–21 Training DSAF 155,000 Grinch Grinch Karantanija 89.026 22 November CEE Animation Forum (ex. VAF) 2019 Access to markets DSAF 60,000 Fifty Shades Freed Petdeset odtenkov svobode Karantanija 85.137 8 February Liffe 2018 Film festivals Cankarjev dom 46,000 A Star Is Born Zvezda je rojena Blitz 75.892 4 October Animateka 2018 Film festivals Association for Reanimation of 33,000 Storytelling 2 Reels Johnny English Strikes Again Johnny English spet v akciji Karantanija 74.224 18 October

FILM IN SLOVENIA Kino Otok 2018 Film festivals Otok institute 27,000 Gaja’s World Gajin svet Karantanija 62.040 27 September

Europa Cinemas European programming in film theatres AKMS – Slovene Art Cinema 88,004 Incredibles 2 Neverjetni 2 2iFilm 58.945 14 June Association (partner) Avengers: Infinity WarMaščevalci: Brezmejna vojna 2iFilm 45.976 26 April 778,604

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24 Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY 25 DFPS – Association of Slovenian Animateka – International AVI Film Film Factory Luksuz produkcija Produkcija Studio Temporama Studio Arkadena Film Factory – Youth Film INSTITU- Film Producers Animated FF Jurij Gruden Mojca Pernat Tom Gomizelj Dražen Štader Jerca Jerič & Andraž Jerič DISTRIBU- Katja Getov TELE- workshops [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.facebook.com/pg/drustvofps www.animateka.si www.filmfactory.si www.luksuz.si www.produkcijastudio.com [email protected] www.arkadena.si www.blog.filmfactory.si TIONS Bela film www.temporama.si TIONS VISION DSP – Producers Guild of FDF – Documentary FF Ida Weiss Filmostovje Mangart Rátneek VPK ITD – Institute for Transmedia Slovenian Film Centre Slovenia [email protected] [email protected] Nina Robnik Vojko Anzeljc [email protected] Tramal Films Mitja Kregar Institute for Transmedia Design [email protected] [email protected] www.fdf.si www.belafilm.si [email protected] [email protected] ratneek.com Miha Černec COMPA- [email protected] STATIONS [email protected] www.sfc.si www.filmostovje.com www.mangart.net [email protected] www.vpk.si www.transmedia-design.me DSR – Directors Guild DOKUDOC – International Blade Production Senca studio Slovenian Film Archive of Slovenia Documentary FF Zoran Dževerdanović Filrouge Makus Film Ida Weiss Triglav Film NIES & NET- JSKD [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Uroš Goričan & Boštjan Slatenšek Bojan Labović [email protected] Aiken Veronika Prosenc National Public Fund for Cultural www.arhiv.gov.si www.dsr.si www.dokumentarci.si www.bladeproduction.com [email protected] [email protected] www.senca-studio.si [email protected] Blitzfilm & Video Distribution POST- Activities Laboratory - annual film www.filrouge.si www.studio-legen.si www.triglavfilm.si [email protected] WORKS & video seminar Slovenian Cinematheque ZFS – Slovenian Association of FeKK – Ljubljana Short FF Bugbrain – Institute of Sever & Sever www.facebook.com/BlitzFilm [email protected] [email protected] Cinematographers [email protected] Animation Finta film Miiijav Animation Films Jani Sever & Nina Jeglič Vertigo PRODUC- RTV Slovenia – www.kinoteka.si [email protected] www.fekk.kraken.si Dušan Kastelic Tina Smrekar Tomaž Kumer [email protected] Danijel Hočevar Cankarjev dom national public service Kratka scena www.zfs.si [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.seversever.com [email protected] [email protected] broadcaster Short Scene – a scriptwriting UL AGRFT FGLF – Ljubljana Gay and www.bugbrain.com www.finta.si www.vertigo.si www.cd-cc.si TION FA- Igor Kadunc workshop intended for the Academy Of Theatre, Radio, Film SKOM – Slovenian Association Lesbian FF Monoo SPOK Film Kolodvorska 2 development of short film and Television, University of of Production & Costume [email protected] Casablanca Fixmedia Sona Prosenc & Rok Sečen Jožko Rutar VPK Pro Cinemania group SI-1000 Ljubljana scenarios Ljubljana Designers & Makeup Artists www.ljudmila.org/siqrd/fgl Igor Pediček Jure Kreft [email protected] [email protected] Andrej Kregar [email protected] CILITIES www.rtvslo.si [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.cinemania-group.si www.kratkascena.si www.agrft.uni-lj.si www.skom.si Grossmann – Fantastic Film and www.casablanca.si www.fixmedia.si www.monoo.si Staragara www.vpk.si Art Rebel 9 Antenna TV SL Wine Festival Miha Černec Continental film Matjaž Požlep Tina Česen Kinodvor: Kinobalon UNG AU ZDUS – Slovenian Association of [email protected] Cebram Forum Ljubljana Narayan [email protected] Warehouse Collective [email protected] [email protected] Stegne 19 [email protected] School of Arts, University of Nova Dramatic Artists www.grossmann.si Rado Likon Eva Rohrman Dejan Babosek www.staragara.com Peter Cerovšek www.continentalfilm.si www.artrebel9.com SI-1000 Ljubljana www.kinodvor.org/en/kinobalon Gorica [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] https://siol.net/planet-tv [email protected] www.zdus.si Kurja polt – Genre FF www.cebram.com www.filminferno.si www.narayanaproduction.com Strup produkcija warehousecollective.net Demiurg Ax Recording Slovenian Cinematheque www.au.ung.si/en [email protected] Nejc Saje & Viva Videnović [email protected] Aleksander Kogoj Pro Plus film education programme for DPPU – Association of www.kurjapolt.org Cvinger film Friendly Production Nora PG [email protected] Zavod Kineki www.demiurg.si [email protected] Pavle Vrabec secondary school and teachers IAM Post-production Artists Rok Biček Matjaž Mrak Darko Vinkl www.strup.si Boris Petkovič www.axrecording.com Kranjčeva 26 [email protected] Institute and Academy of [email protected] Luksuz Cheap FF [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Fivia / Cenex SI-1000 Ljubljana [email protected] Multimedia www.dppu.org [email protected] www.cvinger-film.si www.friendly.si www.nora-pg.si Studio Alp [email protected] Cebram www.pro-plus.si [email protected] www.luksuz.si Matjaž Fistravec Zavod Maja Weiss [email protected] Rado Likon Society of Allies for Soft Landing www.iam.si Kraken – Society for Short Film December Gustav film Nord Cross Production [email protected] Maja Weiss www.fivia.si [email protected] Pro TV [email protected] Promotion Vlado Bulajić & Lija Pogačnik Frenk Celarc Igor Zupe www.studio-alp.si [email protected] www.cebram.si Bojan Požar www.filmska-sola.si Kinodvor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Karantanija Cinemas Kranjčeva 22 [email protected] www.kraken.si PRODUC- [email protected] www.gustavfilm.si www.nordcross.com Studio Arkadena Zank [email protected] Invida SI-1000 Ljubljana Vizo Institute www.kinodvor.org Janez Kovič & Katja Getov Zemira A. Pečovnik www.facebook.com/ Jure Vizjak www.tv3-slo.si [email protected] DSAF – Slovene Animated Film EnaBanda Invida Nosorogi [email protected] [email protected] karantanijacinemas [email protected] https://vizo.si CED Slovenia – Media Association TION COM- Marko Kumer & Katja Lenarčič Jure Vizjak Marina Gumzi www.arkadena.si www.zavod-zank.si www.invida.tv [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kolosej kinematografi ZIK Črnomelj www.media.ced-slovenia.eu www.dsaf.si [email protected] www.invida.tv www.nosorogi.com Studio Kramberger Uran ZTMD – Tolmin Union of Youth [email protected] NuFrame FILM Film Camp PANIES www.enabanda.si Irena Kramberger Uran Associations www.kolosej.si Žiga Pokorn [email protected] SNAVP – Slovenian Independent Iridium Film Nukleus film [email protected] Janez Leban ziga@nuframe Audiovisual Producers A. A. C. Production Fabula Bojan Mastilović Siniša Juričić www.kramberger-uran.com [email protected] Slovenian Cinematheque www.nuframe.si EDUCATION ZVVIKS edu [email protected] Igor Šterk Radovan Mišič [email protected] [email protected] www.kreart.si/ztmd [email protected] animated film workshops PROFES- www.snavp.si [email protected] [email protected] www.iridiumfilm.com www.nukleus-film.hr Studio Legen www.kinoteka.si Iridium Film & seminars www.fabula.si Violeta Legen Zuhr Film Bojan Mastilović PRO- [email protected] A Atalanta ITD – Institute for Transmedia Ozor [email protected] Siniša Gačić Video art [email protected] www.zvviks.net SIONAL Branislav Srdić Fatamorgana Sara Božanić Grega Mastnak www.studio-legen.si [email protected] [email protected] www.iridiumfilm.com FILM [email protected] Matjaž Žbontar [email protected] [email protected] www.videoart.si GRAMMES [email protected] www.transmedia-design.me www.ki-ki-do.si/int Studio Maj ZVVIKS – Institute for Film and Studio Ritem ASSOCIA- Arsmedia Dunja Klemenc AV Production 2i Film Borut Berden AKMS FESTIVALS Franci Zajc & Boštjan Ikovic Felina Films Kinoatelje Pakt Media [email protected] Kolja Saksida [email protected] [email protected] Slovene Art Cinema Association [email protected] Peter Bratuša Aleš Doktorič Diego Zanco www.studiomaj.si [email protected] www.2ifilm.hr www.studioritem.com [email protected] TIONS FSF – Festival of Slovenian Film www.arsmedia.si [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.zvviks.net www.artkinomreza.si [email protected] www.felinafilms.si www.kinoatelje.it www.paktmedia.com Studio Virc Studio 100 AIPA www.fsf.si 2 Reels Boštjan Virc Julij Zornik Animateka: The Elephant – Collecting Society of Authors, Association for Reanimation FilmIT Lignit Film Production Perfo [email protected] PRODUC- [email protected] Association for Film Education Performers and Film Producers of LIFFE – Ljubljana International of Storytelling Natalija Gros Tomi Matič Andrej Štritof & Aleš Pavlin www.studio-virc.si www.100doo.si [email protected] www. Audiovisual Works of Slovenia Film Festival [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] slon.animateka.si [email protected] [email protected] www.animateka.si www.filmit.si [email protected] Studio Vrtinec TION FA- Teleking www.aipa.si www.liffe.si LI Produkcija www.perfo.si Primož Kastelic Aleša Mihelič Enimation Astral Film Filmservis Primož Ledinek [email protected] [email protected] education in animation AKMS Isola Cinema Miha Čelar Klemen Dvornik [email protected] Petra Pan Film www.studio-vrtinec.si CILITIES www.teleking.si [email protected] Slovene Art Cinema Association [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.li-film.si Petra Seliškar www.enimation.si [email protected] www.isolacinema.org www.filmservis.si [email protected] FS Viba film www.artkinomreza.si www.petrapan.com Vojko Stopar WHO IS [email protected] www.vibafilm.si WHO IS

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