Slovenian Film Guide 2019 FICTION & DOCUMENTARY Films From the Heart the Of Europe From Films 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 film co-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 na- tional 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.