FICTION & DOCUMENTARY INTRODUCTION 2 FICTION 3 FICTIONSTILL HOT 12 IN POSTPRODUCTION 24 IN PREPRODUCTION 27 DOCUMENTARY 37 IN POSTPRODUCTION 46 DOCUMENTARYWHO IS WHO 51 Production: Slovenian Film Centre. Editor: Inge Pangos. Translation: Borut Praper. Visual & design: Boštjan Lisec. Print: Collegium Graphicum. Print run: 600. Ljubljana, January 2014. INFERNO INFERNO by VINKO MÖDERNDORFER 4 SUCCESSFUL YEARS BEHIND US... DrevO THE TREE by SONJA PROSENC 6 AND AHEAD! still hot RAZREDNI SOVRažNIK CLASS ENEMY by Rok BičEK 8 The annual film guide is the main publication of Zemljič. Documentaries reach into the field of mod- 10 the Slovenian Film Centre. In the electronic form ern arts and portray extremely interesting, witty čEFURJI RAUS! CHEFURS RAUS! by GORAN VOJNOVić it can also be found on our website. We entered the and creative artists, especially relevant for the area 12 year 2014 with an important new development: of the former Yugoslavia. DVOJINA DUAL by NEJC GAZVODA short films got their own catalogue, since in the last In 2014 Vinko Möderndorfer completed his third 15 few years it became apparent that they needed one. feature film Inferno, while The Tree is the first ZAPELJI ME SEDUCE ME by MARKo ŠANtić Therefore more information about short films be- film by Sonja Prosenc. Quite a few projects are in 17 tween 2010 and 2014 can be found in the other pub- the works: the “veterans” Damjan Kozole and Jan PANIKA PANIC by BARBARA ZEMLjič lication. This catalogue, however, covers features Cvitkovič are returning soon; Vlado Škafar and 18 as well as mediumlength and feature documenta- Miha Knific are making their second features; ADRIA BLUES ADRIA BLUES by MIROSLAV MANDić ries, and it demonstrates that 2013 was a very suc- while Žiga Virc and Tomaž Gorkič are working on 21 cessful year for Slovenian films. their debuts. After his feature, Rok Biček is working GREMO MI PO svOJE 2 GOING OUR WAY 2 by MIHA HočevAR In Slovenia two features – Going Our Way 2 by Miha on a documentary film, and so is Metod Pevec. Co- Hočevar and Chefurs raus! by Goran Vojnović – had productions have also strengthened their position ZORAN, MOJ NEčAK IDIOT ZORAN, MY NEPHEW THE IDIOT by MATTEO OLEOTTO 22 great boxoffice results. In Slovenia as well as abroad and direction: The Reaper and The Butcher Heart Class Enemy, the debut by Rok Biček, had the great are being made with our neighbour Croatia, Our fortune of enjoying an extraordinary international Everyday Life with Bosnia and Herzegovina, while festival and distribution success (for now theatrical Family Film by Olmo Omerzu is being worked on in distribution in Austria, Switzerland and Italy) as cooperation with the Czech Republic. well as a very favourable response from the (Slove- Good luck to Slovenian film: with its insightful FICTION nian) viewers. Slovenian cinemas simultaneously authors, an increasing number of loyal viewers at showed as many as three Slovenian films. Since all home as well as inquisitive friends abroad it cer- three of them had a remarkable number of viewers, tainly deserves it! the myth that Slovenian films should not compete with each other in the domestic theatrical distribu- Jožko Rutar tion have finally crumbled to dust. RTV Slovenija, Nerina T. Kocjančič our public television, produced two feature debuts: Slovenian Film Centre Seduce Me by Marko Šantić and Panic by Barbara director & writer Vinko INFERNO Möderndorfer BY VINKO MÖDERNDORFER editor Andrija Zafranović sound designer Julij Zornik Inferno, feature 2014, ARRI RAW 3K, DCP, 1:2.35, 5.1, production designer Dušan in colour, 113 min Milavec costume designer Alenka Korla The film focuses on a young unemployed working- make-up artist Mojca Gorogranc class family (mother, father and two children) and Petruševska their everyday struggle for survival. The family is like any ordinary European family, trying to make cast Marko Mandić, Medea a living with the work of their hands. Due to the Novak, Marko Bukvič, Lara global economic crisis their life ends up in a blind Volavšek, Renato Jenček, alley. Jernej Šugman, Jana Zupančič, Everything looks as if there is no way out. That in- Sebastian Cavazza dividuals cannot fight against injustice, misery, the unseen authority of the capital… However… Gran- production Forum Ljubljana ite cubes, torn out of streets, are waiting… Have producer Eva Rohrman waited… For centuries. Inferno exists. But only production manager Matija temporarily. Kozamernik co-production Kinorama (hr), VINKO MÖDERNDORFER (1958, Slovenia), director and Sektor Film (mk), Delirium (hr), writer, graduated in theatre direction from AGR- RTV Slovenija FT. He directs also theatre plays, opera perfor- co-producers Ankica Jurić Tilić, mances and television works. His feature Suburbs Vladimir Anastasov, Angela premiered in Venice and Montreal and has also Nestorovska, Biljana Prvanović, been selected for the Karlovy Vary, Cannes (Tous Srdjan Dragojević les Cinemas du Monde), and other festivals. Sub- co-funding SFC, Croatian urbs has received six international and national Audiovisual Centre, Macedonian awards and was selected for the Variety Critics’ Film Fund, Film Centre Serbia, Choice: Europe Now in 2005. Möderndorfer’s fea- Media ture Landscape N°2 premiered in Venice. It has technical support FS Viba film received eight international and national awards and was the Slovenian candidate for the Academy FORUM LJUBLJANA Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2009. +386 1 431 42 54 [email protected] SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY (FEATURES) www.filminferno.si 2014 Inferno 2004 Suburbs 2008 Landscape No.2 The world today looks like inferno: an unjust hell where those who are unlucky – just like the protagonist of our film – are simply unable to find the way out of their misery. Of course, Inferno is by no means an abstract meditation on hell and evil. It addresses a concrete social and political situation, in which the world has found itself because of the gluttonous, insatiable global capitalist monstrosity. In order to express all the powerlessness that millions of people wake up with every morning, I have only focused on a single story of a young family which only wants to survive. V. M. 4 /Fiction & Documentary_SFG director Sonja Prosenc THE TREE screenwriters Sonja Prosenc, BY SONJA PROSENC Mitja Ličen director of photography Mitja Drevo, feature 2014, mHD Cam, 1:2.35, digital, in colour, Ličen Between the imagination of little Veli, struggles of mother Milena, and dilemmas 90 min editor Miloš Kalusek of the teenage boy Alek, the story reveals how absurd their new reality is and what music composer Janez Dovč Alek feels has to be done. S. P. Two brothers find themselves imprisoned in their sound designer Julij Zornik own home as a threat of a blood feud redefines their sound recordist Peter Žerovnik life. However, nothing can keep the children from production designer Vasja Kokelj dreaming and yearning to be free. costume designer Emil Cerar make-up artist Mojca Gorogranc SONJA PROSENC (Slovenia) holds a university degree in Petruševska, Lija Ivančič journalism and cultural science. In 2008 and 2009 she took part in the Sarajevo and Berlinale Talent cast Katarina Stegnar, Jernej Campus and was selected for TorinoFilmLab. Kogovšek, Lukas Matija Rosar The Tree is her first feature. The project has been Uršič developed at EAVE 2012 and Baltic Event in Tal- linn. production Mono O producers Sandra Ržen, Sonja SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY Prosenc 2014 The Tree feature 2012 A Man with a Raven co-production RTV Slovenija, 2012 Morning short documentary Staragara, Nuframe co-funding SFC MONO O Sandra Ržen, Sonja Prosenc +386 41 66 63 92 [email protected] www.monoo.si 6 /Fiction & Documentary_SFG CLASS ENEMY BY ROK BIčeK Razredni sovražnik, feature, 2013, DCP, Scope, digital, in colour, 112 min Due to a huge difference in the way they perceive life, the relationship between students and their director Rok Biček new German language teacher becomes critically screenwriters Nejc Gazvoda, Rok tense. When one of the students commits suicide, Biček, Janez Lapajne her classmates accuse the teacher of being respon- director of photography Fabio sible for her death. The realisation that things are Stoll not so black and white comes too late. editors Janez Lapajne, Rok Biček music Frédéric Chopin World premiere: 28th Venice International Film Critics’ Week sound designer Julij Zornik Awards: more than 15 festival awards in 2013, including all the sound recordist Peter Žerovnik major Vesna Awards at the 16th FSF as well as the Fedeora Award production designer Danijel 2013 for Best Film of the Venice International Film Critics‘ Modrej Week costume designer Bistra Borak make-up artist Petra Hatman ROK BičeK (1985, Slovenia), director and screenwrit- er, graduated from AGRFT. He entered the world of cast Igor Samobor, Nataša cinema as a prominent student at Janez Lapajne’s Barbara Gračner, Tjaša Železnik, PoEtika, an occasional academy for researching Maša Derganc, Robert Prebil, the art of film directing. He has won several awards Voranc Boh for his films. His directorial feature debutClass En- emy is also the current Slovenian candidate for the production Triglav film Best Foreign Language Academy Award nomina- producers Aiken Veronika tion. See also p 47. Prosenc, Janez Lapajne co-funding SFC SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY technical support FS Viba film © 2013 Class Enemy feature 2007 The Family short 2010 Duck Hunting short documentary TRIGLAV FILM 2008 Day in Venice short 2004 Life short [email protected] photo: Triglav film 8 /Fiction & Documentary_SFG director & screenwriter Goran CHEFURS RAUS! Vojnović BY GORAN VOJNOVIć director of photography Radovan Čok Čefurji raus!, feature, 2013, DCP, 1:1.85, Dolby SR-D, editors Janez Bricelj, Ivor Ivezić in colour, 100 min sound designer Boštjan Kačičnik sound recordist Jože Trtnik Marko, Adi, Aco in Dejan hang out in front of a production designer Urša Loboda block of flats in Fužine, an ill-famed Ljubljana sub- costume designer Zvonka Makuc urb.